>>10943939the problem with all these 'its not a simulation' people is they are making the simulating universe far too similar to our own. We know from our own universe simulations that we aproximate things, we dont use real physics we use stuff that works well enough for the targeted purpose of the simulation because if we had to try and accurately simulate every detail of physics it would be impossible because we dont even know every detail of it, we can only look at the observed large scale results and try to make a simulation that kind of matches those results with the variables we put into it.
The computer that would be simulating us would exist in a reality with more complex physics, and this would have produced more complex computers than we can ever possibly create in our universe.
Likewise we are not considered alive by the standards of the far more complex life in the simulated universe, we are seen as approximations of life if they are paying attention at all. If they set out to simulate a universe then we could just be an accident. They put in aproximations of their physics, which made life possible in their universe, and it happened to cause an approximation of life to spring up in their universe. We could be in a simulation simply designed to simulate the early universe to them. They might not even care that any kind of things similar to life is existing in it.
