The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier

Re:The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier by wruza on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:00AM (#21628151)

Fast and slow are relative. We have planck time as a limit, but what if we were hundreds of orders of magnitude slower (and energy-capable)? Or there was no limit at all? A simulation running on small enough quants could be even faster than we could perceive. A single flash and the simulated universe is over. Repeat and try to get better pics of it, until you find something interesting in it.

Or try it the other way: simulator’s universe has 13 time axis and they can fast-forward on one by slowing down on one of the others, then reporting final results to all dimensions (and putting sinful souls in a special eternal suffering simulation supervised by worst criminals ever¹³).

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Re:The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier by pontifier on Monday November 25, 2019 @01:36PM (#21631247)

This is actually a perfect intro to how I believe escape from simulation could work.

There could be absolutely no feedback on the success or failure of an attempted escape until the post processing is complete (after the heat death of the universe). Escape might depend on some entity or automatic routine finding something interesting enough to warrant a second look.

To escape, you'd litteraly have to cause a universe wide anomaly, then social engineer your way past the ones running the simulation.

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Re:The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier by trevyn on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:30PM (#21631824)

All of that seems more plausible than the possibility that whatever is “outside” is something that any of us would actually want or be able to escape to.

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