> Also if this sort of data optimization stuff actually does add new laws of physics, that seems weird, right? I guess maybe we’re just a game. But if the super

> Also if this sort of data optimization stuff actually does add new laws of physics, that seems weird, right? I guess maybe we’re just a game. But if the super-alien things are trying to study something, then these extra laws of physics would seem to be defects. Unless the creators of the simulation have also derived that they, too, are in a simulation and so this “new” law of physics also holds in the one level up simulation.