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This is the German Tank problem applied to simulated universes. What is the maximum likelihood state space of the simulating universe, given that the simulated
by Phemist 10y ago
This is the German Tank problem applied to simulated universes. What is the maximum likelihood state space of the simulating universe, given that the simulated universe has a state space of X?
- fallingfrog 10y agoYes! And the state space of the simulating universe must be at least as large as the state space of all the simulated universes in it.
- fallingfrog 10y agoSo far you're the only person who really got my argument at all. What was I unclear about? Maybe I assumed too much knowledge of math and physics.
- Phemist 10y agoWhat I can distill is that a simulating universe may be computationally stronger than the simulated universe, and not computationally equivalent. However, given Church-Turing theorem (ie, the simulatung universe does not need to be in a higher computational class to simulate equivalent universes), you can make a similar argument. What is the likely computational class of the simulating universe, given a class X of the simulated universe