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1. skissa+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-07 09:37:56
> The idea in the article would refute the inductive step.

No it doesn't. The article describes a proof that it is impossible for a computer to simulate this physical universe with perfect accuracy; but, that's not actually a problem for Nick Bostrom's simulation argument. For the simulation argument to work, you don't need to simulate the universe with perfect accuracy – just with sufficient accuracy that your simulated people can't distinguish it from a real one. And this proof isn't about "ability to simulate a universe to the point the simulated people can't tell that it is a simulation", it is about "ability to simulate a universe with perfect accuracy". So the proof isn't actually relevant to that argument at all.

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2. WhyOhW+eF[view] [source] 2025-12-07 16:39:54
>>skissa+(OP)
Please explain how to simulate a universe which is indistinguishable from a simulation but which is not accurate according to the rules of the article.
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3. skissa+va1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-07 20:39:48
>>WhyOhW+eF
Does the article propose anything empirically testable?

I mean, suppose we are actually in a computer simulation-what observations could we perform, which according to the rules of this article, would show that we were in one, and not the “real” world?

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