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> developed the simulation we are living

Well, the way I understand this, is that this result proves that we do NOT live in a simulation. Because if reality does not exist until measured, then we apparently cannot compute reality ahead of time. And if we cannot compute reality ahead of time, it does not exist yet.



If the purpose of the simulation is to simulate us, then it would make sense for it to not bother computing anything we don't measure.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest

Quite sure there's a clever quip about this exact thing in terms of bits and bytes, I just haven't walked into that part of the forest yet.


True in principle, but you run the risk of premature optimization. Spontaneous changes of will would be impossible.


> Spontaneous changes of will would be impossible.

We don't even know what (free) will is, yet alone whether anyone has it.




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