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See that's hard because I do call it physics, and I do not call it a simulation. I am here in this world, and from where I stand it's as real as anything will ever be for me. My point is that I don't think there's any sense in entertaining counterfactuals that, if true, will be impossible to come up with evidence for, and I think the assertion that our world is a simulation is one such counterfactual. That is, unless…
How to detect imperfect simulation: some unexplainable missing wavelength bands, or quantisation of results where it should be continuous would hint at "cutting corners" in simulation, like steps in energy levels from very distant xray sources perhaps? As far as we know, our "physics" does not show any possible imperfections, or we didn't thought of all imperfections which could arise in simulation.
Re: A useful front-end confetti animation library
#121I think you're setting the bar far too low. An inability to explain why certain frequencies produce no EM radiation would be unsettling, but maybe reality is unsettling. It would not be enough to jump to the conclusion that nothing we've ever measured is actually real.