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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation by levocardia on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:40PM (#43900485)
One strand of argument for the simulation hypothesis is that future beings would conduct "ancestor simulations" to understand key events in history. Such simulations would of course use the same laws of physics (or nearly the same) to be useful. This paper, at least, refutes the ancestor simulation strand of arguments (to the extent you believe it of course)
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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation by out_of_protocol on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:49PM (#43900536)
Or it could be Half-Life 10⁹⁹, with stylized graphics and simplified rules (main action goes within another galaxy and we are a background noise). We're talking unknown unknowns here
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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation by wmf on Monday May 05, 2025 @08:12PM (#43900678)
The paper sort of gets into that as well, considering the "worst" possible simulation where particle colliders and neutrino observatories would still work.
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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation by unparagoned on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:51AM (#43912624)
When we simulate the weather we don’t simulate stuff at the physics level.
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