[jdaxe]

Maybe something like quantum mechanics are an "optimization" of the sim, i.e the sim doesn't actually compute the locations, spin etc of subatomic particles but instead just uses probabilities to simulate it. Only when a consciousness decides to look more closely does it retroactively decide what those properties really were.

Kind of like how video games won't render the full resolution textures when the character is far away or zoomed out.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to have thought this.