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Bookmarked to watch later, but being familiar with the Wolfram take on similar issues, I am curious if there is any "serious" discussion within this domain, ab
by aaroninsf 4y ago
Bookmarked to watch later, but being familiar with the Wolfram take on similar issues,
I am curious if there is any "serious" discussion within this domain, about the simulation hypothesis.
Naively, it certainly *seems* like a lot of the properties of our own universe are consistent with those one would expect from a simulated one... I am thinking specifically of eg uncertainty and "local reality"; and, absolute limits on the speed of information propagation; and even perhaps general relativity—many such things seem naturally emergent from a computed universe.
I have found it puzzling that this is not more generally discussed; I'm not sure if that's because it's considered obviously false, or, obviously true, or, irrelevant ("metaphysics") when the task at hand is just characterization of what we're living with.