On whether we're living in a simulation
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On whether we're living in a simulation
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#4What's the reason for the simulation to be smaller than the simulator?
Can't it just be the same but slower? This wouldn't be perceivable from the inside.
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#5> My personal belief is that the deepest things we’ve learned about quantum gravity—including about the Planck scale, and the Bekenstein bound from black-hole thermodynamics, and AdS/CFT—all militate toward the view that the answer is “yes,” that in some sense (which needs to be spelled out carefully!) the physical universe really is a giant Turing machine.
Doesn't the non-determinism of QM in fact say that there's fundamentally an issue with computability?
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#6If we are living in a simulation, where does the simulation live in?
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#7"If they say, maybe you should live your life differently, just from knowing that you might be in a simulation, I respond: I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I have a vague feeling that this discussion predates the 80 or so years we’ve had digital computers! Why not just join the theologians in that earlier discussion, rather than pretending that this is something distinctive about computers? Is it relevantly different here if you’re being dreamed in the mind of God or being executed in Python?"
That sums up a bit my thoughts about it. The whole simulation hypothesis seems like a new way to introduce theological concepts with modern tech. Cannot be disproved, cannot be verified.
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#9> My personal belief is that the deepest things we’ve learned about quantum gravity—including about the Planck scale, and the Bekenstein bound from black-hole thermodynamics, and AdS/CFT—all militate toward the view that the answer is “yes,” that in some sense (which needs to be spelled out carefully!) the physical universe really is a giant Turing machine. Doesn't the non-determinism of QM in fact say that there's f…
And isn't the fact that the universe seems to be a result of computation in fact just because we are abstracting it with mathematics?
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#10> My personal belief is that the deepest things we’ve learned about quantum gravity—including about the Planck scale, and the Bekenstein bound from black-hole thermodynamics, and AdS/CFT—all militate toward the view that the answer is “yes,” that in some sense (which needs to be spelled out carefully!) the physical universe really is a giant Turing machine. Doesn't the non-determinism of QM in fact say that there's f…
Not a physicist, but I vaguely recall an argument that it might be only non-deterministic from where we stand. Like trying to predict a CSPRNG.