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Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom

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How to Make a Computer Game Environment in Subatomic Detail?

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If you actually create a background, that background will pretty much be the same for all the characters that are mapped on to it. All you would need to do is to simulate enough of the parts that we are observing when weare observing them so they can't tell the difference. The programm would know. Programmer would know you're about to bring outa electron microscope. Itsi te o top the calculation right in the beam, right? Ight? And if itf necessary. They could even pas ta simulation or edit it, or erase memories if they really screwed it up. Yo, i think the kind of capability would need to even create anything resembling this kind of simulation

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