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It's very cool, I'm only a bit disappointed that the author did not consider what would happen if they tried to run the simulation ahead of them to see the futu
by simias 13y ago
It's very cool, I'm only a bit disappointed that the author did not consider what would happen if they tried to run the simulation ahead of them to see the future. What would happen then? All kinds of paradoxes arise.
- ambrop7 13y agoAssuming that Timmy and Diane are simulating a universe identical to their own, they will not succeed at changing their future relative to their simulation (almost by definition). One solution to this is that they never have the idea to try that in the first place. So one could argue the author has considered it ;)
- ironmagma 13y agoI've spent a fair amount of time thinking about this thought experiment, and I think the reason it leads to a paradox is because it's impossible to run a simulation of your own universe (in real time, anyway) in the first place. So it's a sort of proof by contradiction.