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> you'd expect whoever's running the simulation to want to simulate more planets with civilization and fewer giant dust clouds. How so? What if the goal of who
by Gualdrapo 3y ago
> you'd expect whoever's running the simulation to want to simulate more planets with civilization and fewer giant dust clouds.
How so? What if the goal of whoever is running said simulation is something else besides simulating life and civilizations or whatnot, and we are here because an unexpected result?
- tlb 3y agoIf it were me, as soon as I found a civilization in my simulation, I'd shut down all the dust clouds and run many versions of the civilization. The big limitation of studying our civilization from the inside is that we only see one path, so it's hard to tell what parts of history were inevitable vs. accidental. In a sim, you could fork 100 copies of earth starting from 1900 and watch all kinds of different futures unfold. We can't know for sure what would interest simulation runners, but they must come from a technological civilization and would presumably find other civilizations more interesting than dust clouds.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoWho's to say that they don't have plenty of other simulations for simulating civilizations, and we're not just an unintended side effect in a dust cloud research sim?
- ianburrell 3y ago“Why does all this life keep showing up when I’m trying to simulate dark matter clouds. I’m this close to restarting with the parameters tweaked.”