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And then it's funny to realize a simulation would not have to compute those details until someone looks at them.

You're definitely right about that! But who is that someone? A human, a bateria, any sentient being?

Anybody who cares enough to ask the question. Everything else can be abstracted over.

And then the simulation only has to be detailed enough to provide you with a reasonably-plausible answer. As soon as you stop looking, the algorithm can just strip out the detail.

This trick isn't even that hard, graphics processors do it all the time.

You.

Me. Who else ?

Not you, you're part of the simulation. It's just superasn, Elon Musk, and a bunch of goldfish used to generate entropy.

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