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Although disappointing, you seem to have the correct answer for my question.
Your thought experiment sounds more like a "codec" than a procedural generation. I guess it is an arbitrary line given that we are using CPU, etc. But the bigger the decompressing "model" the further away from true 4k compression we are.
EDIT: We can be generous and say 40kb for sake of adding more colours / etc.
The cost of every square foot of living space in x years is something we can't have the smallest idea about.
How many of the people claiming to have clicked a button few minutes / hours after it was out and having spectacular irreversible consequences to their lives is just a phony?
I would say between 40% and 90%, but don't know better than that.
You're betting evolution is not that good. One can also bet it better than you can possibly imagine. I don't think you can be sure either way at this point, but your argument seems to be the most compelling at this point!
In my opinion it must be to help the fitness of the community they live in. The communities with low likelihood to spawn a gay person are (were?) much more likely to go extinct. It can also be a basic property (side effect?) of the sexual appeal arms race.
There is also the case of suicides, when they happen to young people that hasn't reproduced yet. It can also be argued its for the benefit of the community.
So the thesis is that the primary force in evolution is not individual's fitness but it is the community's fitness.
On that note, I think the author forgot to mention the noise disaster it will be when everyone sends their cars driving around the block at night while they sleep. (yay, some extra garage space)
What??
I have my sound at the volume level it always is: between 50% and 100%
Luckly the sound was going through the speakers. It was still very awkward to have the speakers produce one of the loudest sound they ever produced.
Seems weird to see a coding competition with only one language available.
Maybe you'll be able to improve that in the future?
EDIT: It would be great to have python available. But an API that any language could use would be the best way to go as the other comment mentions.
I closed the page immediately as it is unusable.
The only valid answer, I think, is that nor we, nor any other lifeform, will never be able to do so. And it's impossible to predict whether we will be able to do that or not, but everything points out to the answer being yes!
But please, give me an answer I didn't think of.
PS: I completely hate the simulation argument, as it stands, as you can see in my answer to the top post.
In my opinion it's obvious that some intelligent life form decided it would like to create a simulation where life and other interesting behaviour could emerge.
Well, at least I know that I (and many others) would do that if/when we have the means to do so!
Of course, we could never simulate our universe to the same detail and scale (or even close..) within itself. We would have to create a more modest simulation.
So, they could have a highly logical argument for us being in a simulation, but instead they put the words "ancestor simulation" in it. How human of use, once again, thinking the sun spins around the earth!
> Now, how does the "real" world work? Where did it come from? How do we know it isn't a simulation?
That's very easy to answer. Our parent "world" is most likely also a simulation! And so on and forth... ( https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/1/The_Finale_of_the_Ult... )
Now the real question is.. Who spawned the first simulation? And where the F*CK did they come from.
This wont help our life on the day to day, but why would you say people who think about these subject should take a fresh look at the world? For those who like to think deep, this is the most interesting subject there is.
That way one could try to apply some machine learning to this game.
That would really hook me!
Mine: 3387