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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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