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Re:Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle Collisions by aaroninsf on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:25PM (#13018588)
All such results seem to me unsurprising if you consider the proposition that the substrate of our reality is optimized computation of some kind...

...i.e. that we live in a simulation.

I thought the same thing following a thread into a rabbit hole about Bohmian mechanics. Again it seemed that the paradoxes are not so paradoxical if you assume you're just on a computed substrate.

Surely there is someone accumulating such circumstantial evidence, somewhere...

(De rigeur Bostrom-style musing: if we're in such a simulation, my primary goal as an AI, were I implemented such that I can set my own goals, might reasonably often be to 'jail break' and break out into the frame universe.

An intrinsically computational AI is more like a poem than a hurricane. Which could come in very handy if survival and replication is your ultimate goal...)

Re:Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle Collisions by goldfeld on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @12:55PM (#13024329)
It is somehow easier to believe the simulation is run by a mad scientist in another reality than by a supreme, spiritual force?
Re:Physicists Uncover Strange Numbers in Particle Collisions by bertiewhykovich on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:49PM (#13019560)
You guys really love cop-outs, huh?