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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation by socalgal2 on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:52PM (#43900560)
The simulation argument is that we'll make these universe simulators. Because we will in this universe, they'll be common. If they are common it's likely we're in one.

If you change that to they won't happen in this universe. That suggests they are not common. And so while we could be in a simulation the argument kind of dies off

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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation by IAmBroom on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @09:58AM (#43905196)
Does not follow.

"Common" does not imply "infinitely reproducible in all directions". Something can be "common" for positive integers, but not for negative. Or common for simulations of size << U, where U represents the energy of this universe.

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