Former NASA Scientist Doing Experiment to Prove We Live in a Simulation

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Wouldn't it take a very powerful force to be able to simulate such complex substance and energy interaction?

And why would anybody want to simulate what it takes for this, to end up like it is now?

Surely a more harmonious and uplifting scenario could have been devised.

Doesn't seem like there's really anybody testing these simulations before deployment, or it might be more convincing ;)

Entropy itself is as good a case as you can make against reality simulation. Trees fall in the forest and do make a sound; and with that sound they produce more information than is feasible to simulate. The infinite complexity of reality would be unnecessary or even debilitating to recreate artificially.

$20 says he'll be in a looney bin in six months. It's a sad story, but I've seen such cases more than I'd like to admit.

Simulator can dictate the outcome: true or false, which makes the experiment meaningless.

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