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One strand of argument for the simulation hypothesis is that future beings would conduct "ancestor simulations" to understand key events in history. Such simula
by levocardia 1y ago
One strand of argument for the simulation hypothesis is that future beings would conduct "ancestor simulations" to understand key events in history. Such simulations would of course use the same laws of physics (or nearly the same) to be useful. This paper, at least, refutes the ancestor simulation strand of arguments (to the extent you believe it of course)
- out_of_protocol 1y agoOr it could be Half-Life 10⁹⁹, with stylized graphics and simplified rules (main action goes within another galaxy and we are a background noise). We're talking unknown unknowns here
- wmf 1y agoThe paper sort of gets into that as well, considering the "worst" possible simulation where particle colliders and neutrino observatories would still work.
- unparagoned 1y agoWhen we simulate the weather we don’t simulate stuff at the physics level.