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240 | Andrew Pontzen on Simulations and the Universe
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Do We Live Inside a Simulation?
As a simulator of universes we have zero motivation to simulate people inside those universes just zero I just cannot imagine why would you want to do that. If you wanted to simulate the universe perfectly, then you can count the number of bits or more technically cubits. That's required to do that it's a stupendously large number something like a 10 to the 124 I think. So you're required to simulate the whole universe. And how can you do that? Well, it turns out that you would need to use the whole universe to build your computer. But but where in reality, where in reality,. it's a sort of hoax of some sort, and that's that's where
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