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There is something Wolfram would call computational irreducibility (related to the Halting Problem), which means even though the simulation is just a determinis
by GistNoesis 4y ago
There is something Wolfram would call computational irreducibility (related to the Halting Problem), which means even though the simulation is just a deterministic mathematical function, to know what happens in it you must run the code, and that may require lot of memory and compute along the way even if the universe ends in an heat death.
In fact universe is probably stored by a seed (42), along something like 10 lines of definition, and 100 line of code would be enough to implement it in a naive version (Physicists sell tee-shirts with some pseudo version of it).
Morpheus would say : "There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path..."
- jstanley 4y agoFor someone outside the universe to know what happens in it, they must run the code. For someone inside the universe, their observations are just part of the function. To know the millionth digit of pi you have to calculate it, but the digit is the same regardless.