Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation

Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by intjk on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:32AM (#13929083)

At the end of the article, Scott essentially says the same thing, but emphasizing the other side of the coin:

> [...] the question of whether the universe “really” “is” a simulation has barely come up. Why would it, when there are so many more fruitful things to ask?

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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by inopinatus on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:54AM (#13929169)

I always felt that the point of asking this question was not the answer itself, but that theorising how it might be implemented could lead to hacking the sandbox.

IANATP but I've read, for example, that violating Lorentz invariance is an active research area.

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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by XorNot on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @11:30AM (#13931697)

Or looking for aliasing from a lattice QCD simulation in cosmic microwave background...

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