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In case you're wondering... > ~ Anticipated q's ~ > What if we're living in a simulation? > Keybase offers no guarantees against sophisticated side-channel a
by chishaku 9y ago
In case you're wondering...
> ~ Anticipated q's ~
> What if we're living in a simulation?
> Keybase offers no guarantees against sophisticated side-channel attacks by higher-level entities.
- rotrux 9y ago> ~ Anticipated A's ~ > YES. IT'S LIKE THE MATRIX BUT INSTEAD OF ROBOTS IT'Z LIZARD PEOPLE. > THIS ISN'T A QUESTION BUT GOOD POINT. WE R BEGINNING THE MOVE UNDERGROUND.
- seanlane 9y agoIt appears that this may no longer be an open question: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm-that-were-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm... There was a Hacker News post about this a few days ago, likely from a different source, but I can't find it.
- rorosaurus 9y agoDoesn't this simply suggest that the reality that is simulating our universe would have to be fundamentally different than our own?
- jsjohnst 9y agoI remember reading something a decade or so ago which said that to simulate the entire known universe, even using selective windowing, would require more energy than the entire universe has. Wish I could remember the source.
- qudat 9y agoThis only applies to classical computers not quantum, some combination of both, or by some means of computation we haven't discovered yet.
- rvern 9y agoNo: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482.