From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 07:40:01 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> For example a religion of worshiping
> "God", the creator of the simulation, seems perfectly reasonable to me
> if it also acknowledges that there is no way of knowing whether or not we
> are in a simulation.
One point: would you enjoy playing a universe-sim where you set all the
variables and then just let it evolve for a few billion years? Or would
you rather play a universe-sim where you can tweak the variables from
time to time? I'd argue the latter is much more likely and opens up the
possibility of information leakage as bugs in the system expose such
tweaks on occassion. Of course the mere act of exposing such leakage
necessitates another tweak and rationalists will discount the initial
leakage in the first place, since it may appear as some form of
'pseudoscience' and would not be repeatable. (No doubt a clever program
would use such feedback to generate repair tweaks or at least suspend
the program and alert the sysop).
Thanks,
-Mike
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