Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out

Re:Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out by nlh on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:56PM (#20669440)

Agree with everything you say except one bit:

“we couldn’t break it or trancend it”

The same thing has been said about many man-made electronic systems, and we know how that’s gone so far ;) So I think for 95% of people, nothing would change, but for the folks on the forefront of experimental / particle physics, quite a bit would change because we’d be looking for a whole new class of exploits/vulnerabilities/ways to affect change in the simulation.

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Re:Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out by RealityVoid on Sunday August 11, 2019 @04:41PM (#20670351)

I'm willing to cede this argument to you, except 5% seems like a far far too great of a number for people "on the forefront of experimental / particle physics" by several orders of magnitude.

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Re:Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out by nlh on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:09AM (#20676100)

Heh you’re definitely right here. Maybe .005% is more like it :)

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