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Tom_W1987 · 2016-08-16T07:12:37Z

I see that Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk think that we are living inside a simulation.I get the argument in regards to how low the probability is that we would be the first species/reality to simulate another reality - and so therefore the likelihood is that we are living in a simulation. But how likely is it that, even given millions of years of evolution that a species could create computer hardware that could scale infinitely to be able to cope with an infinite amount of realities creating an infinite amount of simulations? Surely that would cause the whole thing to be shut down? Doesn't that lower probability of us living in a simulation? As we'd have to be in a reality that was in a window of realities that the hardware could cope with, or a reality in which we were shut down before we ran our own simulation (which would give us a 50/50 probability?).

eddiebaby

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if there is a god he/she/it has a sense of humour.

He'll need it when I get my hands round the ****er's throat.

Posted : 21/08/2016 9:45 am

gwaelod

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I don't think you can necessarily assume physics outside the simulation is the same as physics within the simulation.

Posted : 21/08/2016 9:52 am

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I don't think you can necessarily assume physics outside the simulation is the same as physics within the simulation.

Pretty much what I was saying earlier... 🙂

Yes, if you tried to mimic other 'laws'. If those 'laws' are unique to this 'science experiment', then there is no convincing to be done.

Posted : 02/09/2016 8:50 pm

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