Re: Evidence that the universe is simulated

From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 13:58:59 MST


--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:

> If the universe is simulated, then it would be easier to simulated 1
> intelligent species, and then populate that specie's night skies, with
> images of
> distant stars, then it would be to simulate those stars also and have more
> than
> one living world in such a simulation. Less computing cycles.

AIXI/Occam's Razor favors the simplest algorithm, not the fastest program.
There is an inverse relation, as outlined in the table in
http://www.mattmahoney.net/singularity.html

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com



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