[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.

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