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Exponential slowdowns at each level ruin this hypothesis.
by smaddox 2y ago
Exponential slowdowns at each level ruin this hypothesis.
- geenkeuse 2y agoThe documents I copied are not as sharp as the original, so the photocopier must not exist.
- smaddox 2y agoPhotocopying has little to do with simulation of the physical world. First of all, Bits != Q-bits. You can clone bits. You can't clone Q-bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem Second, photocopies are static. The physical world is not static.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 2y agoWhy would their be exponential slowdown? Time can be relative, but superbroadcasting can help explain the loss of fidelity as we scale down. So you can't "Clone" but you can superentangle multiple copies in a degraded state.
- smaddox 2y agoThe slowdown is in the simulation, not in the internally perceived flow of time. The internally perceived flow of time would of course not change. The problem is that an exponential slowdown at each level requires discounting the probability of being in a simulation by an exponential amount per level. So instead of being able to say that the weighted odds of being in a simulation are higher than the odds of not being in a simulation, you have to say that, at best, there's a small chance of being in a simulation.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 2y agobut if you have entanglement, you don't have slowdown. that was my point. It's "wasteful", by producing multiple copies to have a probablity across the set, but it does allow it to be "Parrallel" so no exponetial slowdown.