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Everyone knows how software works. You have a program, and you give it to a computer, and the computer conforms itself to the program and instantiates all the
by Eliezer 14y ago
Everyone knows how software works. You have a program, and you give it to a computer, and the computer conforms itself to the program and instantiates all the rules and carries out the program's instructions. The universe works just the same way, only without the computer. -- the negation of the Simulation Hypothesis
- bduerst 14y agoRequires proving the claim of nonexistence.
- zerostar07 14y agoActually there are cannot be variables determining some phenomena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bell_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bell_theorem
- jimrandomh 14y agoBell's Theorem says there cannot be local variables determining some phenomena. That raises the computational cost of simulating the universe, and shrinks the set of possible universes that could simulate ours, but does not preclude the universe being a simulation.
- zerostar07 14y agoGood point, thanks for correcting me. Can you give a hint how this would raise the computational cost?
- Eliezer 14y agoA common misconception. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/