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If we were living in a simulation, I think it would be programmed in such a way that it would be emergent. A bit like a mandelbrot set, where the rules are simp
by POiNTx 4y ago
If we were living in a simulation, I think it would be programmed in such a way that it would be emergent. A bit like a mandelbrot set, where the rules are simple but the complexity is infinite. No need to texture anything if the rules define what the texture would look like by a minimal fixed set of rules (laws of nature).
- mshake2 4y agoTo me, it would be more interesting to design specific scenarios to study.
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- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> it would be more interesting to design specific scenarios to study The weakness, to me, in the simulation hypothesis is the ancestor simulation assumption. Most of our computing power concerns itself with the future. Not the unchangeable past. Hell, simulated universes with different physical constants would be far more interesting.
- roughly 4y agoI know folks doing climate modeling - there’s extensive simulating the past, because it’s the only way for us to validate our models.
- dhosek 4y agoThere’s a part of me that kind of views this as a theological prospect—that God (or however you care to name the supreme being, as such) is constantly upping the challenge for us as humanity.