10 Reasons We Live in a Computer Simulation

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5 – Computing Power,

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  • Next comes computational power, which seems like the biggest issue of them all, but in reality it’s probably the smallest factor in the whole theory since ever since 1975 we’ve doubled our computing power every two years.
  • While this may slow down thanks to the fact that the smaller a transistor gets the harder it is to be certain where it is, we’re still a society that pours an insane amount of time and resources into making better computers.

4 – Programming,

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  • But then it’s gotta be really hard to program an entire universe, surely that makes the argument fall down.
  • Of course this isn’t necessarily an issue either, since we can just program programs to program the programs for us, which believe it or not is something we already do for many areas of IT.
  • Not only that but we could brute force the whole issue by starting with super simple rules and beginning positions, like the game of life, and see which one works the best.

3 – Power,

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  • It’s hard to deny that the power required to make such a machine run is gigantic, even if you take into account increases in power efficiency.
  • But there are ways around that too, there’s a theoretically possible megastructure called the Dyson sphere that can capture a large portion of the sun’s energy.
  • Such a structure would require a gigantic amount of material, but that can always be stripped from planets like Jupiter and Saturn.

2 – But Don’t We Have Free Will?,

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  • Then you might wonder if a machine could emulate free will, like we seem to have, which is dubious, but then so is our free will.
  • Since if you ever remove a person’s ability to retain new memories a weird effect occurs.
  • They will repeat themselves constantly, if you give them the same parameters and the same question, they will almost always repeat themselves word for word for hours on end.
  • So whether we have free will or not aside, this shows that we’re not exactly unpredictable or un-programmable.

1 – Uncertainty

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  • What is seemingly un-programmable, however, is the uncertainty that comes with quantum physics, where an object isn’t in any one position, it just has a possibility of being in a series of locations until it gets observed.
  • So it really does seem to be truly random, but then computers have little issue creating something random in the first place, using algorithms to simulate true randomness, hell we can even do this by observing quantum mechanics.
  • Not only that but if a scientist recorded a large series of quantum events and then put that into the random number generator it would be almost indistinguishable from actual randomness.

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