we're in a simulation, because everything I learn about quantum is exactly how I would code a lazy evaluation approximation of a real universe.
we're mathematical like some sort of 3d time fractal. The big bang, universe expansion, black holes etc seem analogous to the number line, irrational numbers and so on.
we're incapable being inside the system of ever knowing how or why anything is here.
Basically I'm a Pascal Wagerist, except not Christian-centric - we can't know, if you can believe you'll be happier, but don't get all worked up about it. Live a good life as part of the world not vs the world.
everything I learn about quantum is exactly how I would code a lazy evaluation approximation of a real universe.
Fun thought experiment: consider that it's the other way around. Our current understanding of subatomic physics is informed by the way we would code lazy approximation. The same way that every man who tries to implement flight from scratch starts with a device that flaps. We just don't perceive how the world at that scale primed our advancement. The universe led us to code that way.
There was one somewhat credible theory that space doesn't even exist, that everything is a graph. So there's no spooky action at a distance because the entangled parts are right next to each other in the graph even if they are far away in 'space'.
If it's something like that we may never be able to figure out what's truly going on.
Statistically speaking, we will continue to develop technology at SOME level of pacing.
That technology will eventually reach reality-simulation level, to simulate some war game or long-term planning project.
That simulation technology will reach eventual perfect complexity: Imagine a Minecraft map using redstone to run Minecraft. Perfectly technically possible. Just, grander scale.
We can thus logically deduce that in a simulation meant to pass the simulation point, there is/was/will-be an infinite amount of simulations both up and downstream of us.
EXCEPT...
The probability we are the first, or the last, in the infinite chain is technically not zero. Infinitesimally small, but not exactly zero.
We can reasonably assume we're in an entirely pre-scripted simulation, but likewise, there exists a chance we aren't and we can reasonably act as if we aren't, because if we aren't that is correct, but if we are, it's all pre-scripted anyways so that action of assuming it wasn't pre-scripted was already presupposed and taken into calculation, and could be an important part of the simulation's process.
The only problem with the simulation hypothesis is that it's unlikely that we're aliens wearing a TentacleVR hat and when our human character dies we take it off and go about our alien day.
It's very likely that the simulators don't even know we exist, or even that life exists, in their simulation. They're simulating universes with different constants or something like that.
That's why I don't like these attempts to do insane computations with quantum. If they can actually do classical computations that would take longer than the universe then maybe we crash the simulator or they restart it to fix the glitch.
I believe that
we're in a simulation, because everything I learn about quantum is exactly how I would code a lazy evaluation approximation of a real universe.
we're mathematical like some sort of 3d time fractal. The big bang, universe expansion, black holes etc seem analogous to the number line, irrational numbers and so on.
we're incapable being inside the system of ever knowing how or why anything is here.
Basically I'm a Pascal Wagerist, except not Christian-centric - we can't know, if you can believe you'll be happier, but don't get all worked up about it. Live a good life as part of the world not vs the world.
Fun thought experiment: consider that it's the other way around. Our current understanding of subatomic physics is informed by the way we would code lazy approximation. The same way that every man who tries to implement flight from scratch starts with a device that flaps. We just don't perceive how the world at that scale primed our advancement. The universe led us to code that way.
What we see is only a fraction of what is. Our brains are not capable of perceiving the raw energy that is flowing around us all the time.
I dont think we live in a simulation, it just appears that way because the universe has to manifest itself somehow.
And even if we did, it still wouldnt really matter, in the end we are still the universe experiencing itself.
There was one somewhat credible theory that space doesn't even exist, that everything is a graph. So there's no spooky action at a distance because the entangled parts are right next to each other in the graph even if they are far away in 'space'.
If it's something like that we may never be able to figure out what's truly going on.
Sounds like a kind of Gnosticism. Possibly aided by hallucinogenics along the way (not judging if so)
Statistically speaking, we will continue to develop technology at SOME level of pacing.
That technology will eventually reach reality-simulation level, to simulate some war game or long-term planning project.
That simulation technology will reach eventual perfect complexity: Imagine a Minecraft map using redstone to run Minecraft. Perfectly technically possible. Just, grander scale.
We can thus logically deduce that in a simulation meant to pass the simulation point, there is/was/will-be an infinite amount of simulations both up and downstream of us.
EXCEPT...
We can reasonably assume we're in an entirely pre-scripted simulation, but likewise, there exists a chance we aren't and we can reasonably act as if we aren't, because if we aren't that is correct, but if we are, it's all pre-scripted anyways so that action of assuming it wasn't pre-scripted was already presupposed and taken into calculation, and could be an important part of the simulation's process.
The only problem with the simulation hypothesis is that it's unlikely that we're aliens wearing a TentacleVR hat and when our human character dies we take it off and go about our alien day.
It's very likely that the simulators don't even know we exist, or even that life exists, in their simulation. They're simulating universes with different constants or something like that.
That's why I don't like these attempts to do insane computations with quantum. If they can actually do classical computations that would take longer than the universe then maybe we crash the simulator or they restart it to fix the glitch.