(February 9, 2021 at 11:39 am)Angrboda Wrote: Some argue that the granularity of reality (things being broken into quanta) is evidence that we're living in a sim.
Perhaps - but that sim is the universe itself.
A real sim would have to be housed in a computer with the tiniest portion of the universe's computing power. The number of bits of state in the "universe simulation" is about 10^120. A common computer today has a memory capacity of about 10^10 bits. The biggest computer isn't enough to simulate one person.
So, if I am in an artificial simulation, likely I'm the only real person that exists. Everything else is an illusion, created on-demand (it takes too many resources to create you lot for real). I would guess any "glitches" get wiped from my mind real-time so I don't notice them. And if I'm in a sim inside a sim inside a sim, well -- with each level having exponentially less complexity, I must be a complete idiot with only a few bits of simulation.
On the plus side it must mean I'm immortal (until some programmer installs an upgrade). I can totally ignore your comments now, non-real people!
