[ExI] simulation stat goofiness

Will Steinberg steinberg.will at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 14:34:38 UTC 2020


But still, as you keep going up simulation levels, at some point processing
power must run out, right?  Unless each higher universe is successively
larger and lengthier (...no laughing at that one!)

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 8:59 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:15 AM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *> I don't believe the processing power exists to accurately simulate the
>> number of atoms we have access to,*
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> The processing power exists if time is not an issue for the guy running
> the simulation. It would make no difference to us if it takes his
> computer one second or 2 seconds, or 1 million years, or 1 thousand million
> billion trillion years to simulate one second of our world on his computer,
> we would have no way to tell the difference.
>
> John K Clark
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