Do we live in computer simulation? Proposed new law of physics backs up the idea
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I think it is really hard to speculate about the performance of a super-advanced machine capable of simulating our current universe. But I mean for our simulators we just size the problems appropriately, right? We have no concept of what the scale of this universe hosting machine even is, so why assume we’re a big run? Heck maybe we’re the toy model they run before doing on the supercluster “Yes professor, it doesn’t seem to be buggy, although I only can test four dimensional runs on on my laptop, the ten dimensional stuff will take the full cluster.”
Also if this sort of data optimization stuff actually does add new laws of physics, that seems weird, right? I guess maybe we’re just a game. But if the super-alien things are trying to study something, then these extra laws of physics would seem to be defects.
Unless the creators of the simulation have also derived that they, too, are in a simulation and so this “new” law of physics also holds in the one level up simulation.