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That is assuming that whatever reality our simulation was running in followed the same rules.
by misnome 11y ago
That is assuming that whatever reality our simulation was running in followed the same rules.
- Strilanc 11y agoOf course. I used that assumption because it was also implicit in the original claim. If we don't have any idea what the top-level rules are, then claiming quantum mechanics is an optimization artifact falls a bit flat. If the top-level rules are classical-ish, then quantum mechanics is expensive instead of cheap. If the top-level rules are quantum-ish, then that begs the question of why we thought quantum implied simulated. If the top-level rules are totally different... then there's not really much to be concluded.