[POiNTx]

If we were living in a simulation, I think it would be programmed in such a way that it would be emergent. A bit like a mandelbrot set, where the rules are simple but the complexity is infinite. No need to texture anything if the rules define what the texture would look like by a minimal fixed set of rules (laws of nature).

[dhosek]

There’s a part of me that kind of views this as a theological prospect—that God (or however you care to name the supreme being, as such) is constantly upping the challenge for us as humanity.

[mshake2]

To me, it would be more interesting to design specific scenarios to study.

[JumpCrisscross]

> it would be more interesting to design specific scenarios to study

The weakness, to me, in the simulation hypothesis is the ancestor simulation assumption. Most of our computing power concerns itself with the future. Not the unchangeable past. Hell, simulated universes with different physical constants would be far more interesting.

[roughly]

I know folks doing climate modeling - there’s extensive simulating the past, because it’s the only way for us to validate our models.