mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 09:59:56 JST

@est Imagine the world is a simulation in a great computer, like the VCs say. Never mind if that's plausible, just consider what the implications would be. This world is very complex, so a simulation would have to use enormous quantities of lossless compression; each thing would have to be represented by an encoding at its lowest k-information bound. We can assume a simulator would be unlimited in time (time exists *within* the simulation), but would necessarily be limited in space. (1/2)