If we are living in a computer simulation, the end of the world might be around the year 2050. It will be about that time when we have the computational abilities to run are own ancestor simulations. This will cause stacking of simulations upon simulations eating up all the computational resources of the parent reality.
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So you know the capabilities and limitations of the technology of an older, more advanced race that has managed to create an entire simulated universe? A race that itself lives in a universe that could very well run on different physical laws and/or include elements that do not exist in our own?
If arrogance were oxygen we could make the Martian atmosphere breathable just by firing your inconceivably overinflated ego at it.
Ah, but in our simulation we will simplify things, include some arbitrary limits, make inexplicable connections between two variables etc. (Zach Wiener-Smith FTW!)
The thing about the "simulation hypothesis" is that even if we are in a real-life Matrix...so what? Even if this reality is fake, it's real enough that it being artificial is entirely irrelevant to its actual, perceived, relative legitimacy.
Alright, I'm still not completely awake today, so I'm rambling and the above sounded better in my head.
Could these simulators not give the server an upgrade? I do hope that the ability to use teleportation, and other superpowers, are brought in during the next upgrade so that I can see all the friends I've made over the years much easier, also congestion would become a thing of the past.
"to run are own "
Are you a fellow northerner (from England) Heywood? I know that's how we pronounce the word you're trying to say, but you need to spell it differently.
Can a simulation be more complex, as a matter of information density, than the system performing the simulation? I suspect not. If not, you can't break your hypothetical reality simulator, because your simulation would not exceed the difficulty of simulating reality.
To put another way: there exists a mapping of your simulation to reality, in the form of the simulation's imprint in working and stored memory. Your super-simulation is already producing the memory itself, so flipping bits in that memory confers no additional cost.
You do realise the we wouldn't actually be creating our own simulated universe, it would only be thus simulation making us think that we had?
Those silly aliens - clever enough to create this simulated universe, too stupid to simulate your belief that you've created your own simulated universe...
"It will be about that time when we have the computational abilities to run are own ancestor simulations."
Assassin's Creed is a video game, not a documentary.
When computers were young, it was said that 64KB will be sufficient for all times. We now have pocket calculators and microwave ovens with more memory than that.
If you want to reduce the risk of looking extremely stupid in a few years' time, never, ever estimate future computational resources.
Oh, and it's "our", not "are".
This OP may seem silly, but how is it fundie? It's not dogmatic at all, and I vaguely recall the "we might be living in a simulation ourselves" philosophical hypothesis being kicked around even before the The Matrix films (yes, plural ) happened.
"If we are living in a computer simulation, the end of the world might be around the year 2050."
Watching the "Matrix" films too many times isn't healthy you know. Oh, and 'If. ' [/Spartan Laconic Wit]
"It will be about that time when we have the computational abilities to run are own ancestor simulations"
Japan may be technologically advanced, but I doubt Shinto temples will have those sorts of facilities!
"This will cause stacking of simulations upon simulations eating up all the computational resources of the parent reality."
When they talk about 'Chips', Pringles don't make their product out of Gallium Arsenide, you know. [/hyper-smartarse]
...oh, and did you know? At the production facilities in Tennessee, Pringles refers to their product as CRISPS.
...therefore 'Chips' are Crisps , and 'French' (actually invented in Belgium: 'Frites') Fries are CHIPS. [/rant mode off]
Confused?
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