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I don't quite understand how we propose to identify those anomalies when we have nothing to compare them to. Maybe the weird behaviours we observe in quantum ph
by simias 13y ago
I don't quite understand how we propose to identify those anomalies when we have nothing to compare them to. Maybe the weird behaviours we observe in quantum physics for instance are the result of some optimisation/bug in the simulation, but how would we prove that?
How would a video game character understand and then prove he's in a simulation if the simulation itself didn't program them to do that?
It kind of reminds me of the people looking for life on other planets by searching for worlds similar to ours. It's of course a reasonable approach but in the end we have no idea if statistically speaking the presence of water or a certain temperature or atmosphere gives higher probabilities for life to emerge. We're just extrapolating from a sample of one.
- evanb 13y agoWe can simulate worlds with different parameters and compare them to our (experimentally observed) world. See my top-level comment for more detail.