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You can not even determine that you are in a simulation if the simulator does not want you to know.

• rvba 3y ago
  Unless there are bugs? I read that the computer game Eve online (never played it) slows down when there are big battles with many players. Sounds a lot like black holes. Time slows there down too - too many calculations? Planck time is the tick rate of the universe? Can pauses happen?
  • danbruc 3y ago
    No. Because you have never seen a universe of which you are sure that it was a real universe, so you do not know how a real universe behaves, so you can not determine whether our universe behaves differently than a real universe. You are just postulating without justification that in a real universe time progresses uniformly and then conclude that our universe is not real because time does not progress uniformly. As I said in a different comment, even if the stars in the Milky Way suddenly rearranged themselves to spell out »You are in a simulation.« on the night sky, you could not tell for sure whether this is a message from the simulators in the outer universe or whether this is just some weird behavior arising from the laws of physics in a real universe.
  • danbruc 3y ago
    Or to stick with the software metaphor, you do not have a specification for real universe, so you can not tell whether the implementation is correct or has bugs. What you consider a potential bug might as well be a feature, impossible to tell without the specification.
    • rvba 3y ago
      But when we talk about computers: cant programs run away from the virtual machine and snoop around?