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by 0134340 524 days ago
The explanation made me think the universe is like one big zip file being extracted and in areas of lower entropy or complexity, it's able to be extracted faster. Maybe it's not an apt analogy but seems fitting as someone who analogizes tech to real world applications often.
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An idea I've never been able to get out of my head is an observation about collision detection.

1. The more stuff there is in an area, the more expensive collision detection is for each of those things.

2. The faster two objects move relative to each other, the more expensive collision detection is between those objects.