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Humans (or a human in singular, all humans might actually be easier in a sense) probably can't be simulated into the future very well at all. A human brain is a
by Vecr 4y ago
Humans (or a human in singular, all humans might actually be easier in a sense) probably can't be simulated into the future very well at all. A human brain is a highly chaotic system, so the ability to simulate it would be affected by the inability to get precise state information in the first place (probably bumping into uncertainty, if you could somehow even get that far), and after that I suspect you would get massive divergences due to quantum effects. If that's not enough, if I suspected I was being simulated I would fuzz my decision making with fundamentally unpredictable random numbers to put a stop to that problem. Probably something along the lines of the quote "all processes that are stable we shall predict. All processes that are unstable we shall control" would work better. Just brain chip everyone so they can't diverge from the simulation.
- pegasus 4y agoThe flow of a river is also highly chaotic - look at all the turbulence for example. It's course over it's lifetime (of millenia) is similarly unpredictable.
- Vecr 4y agoWell, yes, but predicting a river or a human on a 1-month time scale would be useful in many cases, but the human would be much more likely to diverge in an unpredictable way during that time. Possibly a river could do a few things, and you would get a useful list from the prediction, but a human would probably not have a such simple list.