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Re:Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization by wongarsu on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:07AM (#42042194)
We also can't rule out that Gaia or Odin made the world five minutes ago, and went to great lengths to make the world appear ancient.

It certainly makes sense if you assume that the world is a simulation. But does it actually explain anything that isn't equally well explained by assuming the simulation simulated the last 13 billion years, and evolution really happened?

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Re:Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization by j1elo on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:24AM (#42042359)
As long as we don't get to the point of being able to simulate a Universe ourselves, the odds are against us being in a simulation, it seems! :)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EeqyGquTHK4

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Re:Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization by sangnoir on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:57PM (#42054228)
There's a built-in assumption that there would be no constraints applied on nested simulation anywhere further down the stack, which is IMO unlikely, unless every layer has unlimited compute, or otherwise interested in investigating nested simulations.
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