Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation?

Re:Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation? by MarkPNeyer on Saturday May 05, 2012 @12:20PM (#3932433)

if we are in a simulation, we could possibly hack our way out of it.

i've thought for a while now that the "speed of light" limit is a result of a distributed consesnus algorithm taking a bit of time to convergd.

also, quantum mechanical noiss is leakage current flipping bits in memory.

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Re:Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation? by tiptap on Saturday May 05, 2012 @12:28PM (#3932456)

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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Re:Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation? by Juha on Saturday May 05, 2012 @02:04PM (#3932734)

"if we are in a simulation, we could possibly hack our way out of it."

Interesting, software engineers know there are no programs without bugs. Some weirdest things in physics like quantum entanglement may just be bugs in the simulation :)

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Re:Who here believes the universe is a computer simulation? by trentlott on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:53PM (#3955960)

They act more like quick fixes used to get it running on schedule

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