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> Can entities inside the simulation get info about your CPU architecture? Not really, not unless you really messed up (let's assume you don't make any gross co
by vidarh 3y ago
> Can entities inside the simulation get info about your CPU architecture? Not really, not unless you really messed up (let's assume you don't make any gross concessions to performance over correctness).
I would consider it magnitudes more likely to assume we would really mess it up than to assume there are no information leaks, and I think it's wildly unrealistic to assume we wouldn't make gross concessions to performance over correctness.
> If you have the ability to simulate anything close to our universe, I just don't think it's that hard to make it actually correct and therefore inescapable.
I think it's naive to assume that increased ability create complex systems correlate with increased ability to predict all possible ways of exploiting those systems.
But even more so, I consider it naive to assume we would even if we could.
- andrewflnr 3y agoThe answer to both points: the universe exhibits, as far as we can tell, a high degree of correctness. We've already tested it in pretty diverse and extreme circumstances and found it consistent. Clearly if our universe is a simulation, the simulators are both willing and able to give a shit about correctness, enough that there's no reason they would use the shoddy engineering that plagues modern attempts at sandboxing. The cut-rate simulations humanity is or will be capable of anytime soon are irrelevant.