[ExI] simulation stat goofiness

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Sat Sep 19 16:31:15 UTC 2020


 

 

> On Behalf Of Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] simulation stat goofiness

 

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!)

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Will, not if the higher levels can take longer to calculate everything.

 

I think that was John’s argument to start with.  If our perceived universe is analogous to a memory or storage device, then each (hyper)cubic Planck length is analogous to a memory location.  If anything stored there stays there, it wouldn’t matter how long it takes to calculate every cycle.  We would perceive each cycle as a chronon.  It wouldn’t matter if it takes each next level up a skerjillion “years” to calculate each chronon in the level below it, for the notion of time in that scenario is an illusion.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:15 AM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

> I don't believe the processing power exists to accurately simulate the number of atoms we have access to,

 

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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