RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life...
December 7, 2014 at 7:26 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2014 at 7:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 6, 2014 at 11:18 pm)Heywood Wrote: Very smart people are working on how we could tell if we are existing in a sub reality right now. There are published paper detailing on how we can test for it. There are some serious concerns. If we proved we were living in a sub reality would those simulating us still find us useful? Knowing we are just simulants is sure to change our behavior and that fact might make us no longer useful.A serious concern about "those simulating us"....who? Just how serious a concern is that....really?
Quote:Also it is figured that around 2050 we will have the computing power to make our own ancestor simulations. This may cause a stacking problem if we are indeed in a simulation. The computer running our simulated reality would also then have to run the simulated reality we create. It might not be powerful enough so our simulated reality would be ended or "restored" back to a point when we did not have such capabilities.-this is fucking idiotic. I implement computing systems in minecraft. I don't find myself having to revert a world simply because I simulate a machine within a simulation being run by a machine. You might be familiar with this sort of thing yourself - emulators (ATARI,NES,SEGA,PS running on a PC). The environment a sim runs in puts hard limits on what can be done or made by that system. I can arrange for an effect which might seem like it could break the machine (to a person with little to no fucking clue...). For example, running a simulated 128bit alu on my 64bit system.....with 4 instances of parallel implementation. Seems like it would be too much, how do you get 128bits out of 64...well, I don't..I use 32, the 128bit alu is a simulation (a useful illusion). Could, of course, run 16 of the machines pictured below to achieve the same effect. The manner in which it's achieved is fairly simple - though an explanation would probably only confuse the issue. Fair amount of trickery involved.
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an NES in Minecraft - or how I would build an NES today, rather than how it was built in the 80's (different architecture, particularly the adder, ram, and bus - the program memory is mechanically identical, quite proud of that actually). I use 7-segment displays for UI instead of a TV because there's no satisfactory way to implement a TV ingame (hard limits....if I could make a tv that might break the machine I would...but I can't). It can run Mario Bros...even though you wouldn't recognize it, nor could you play it.
Quote:Armageddon might be 30-35 years away.Maybe you'll feel better tomorrow?
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