Taking the premise at face value for sake of argument.
You should be surprised just how many fields of study bottom out in something intractable to simulate or re-derive from first principals.
The substrate that all agents seem to run on seems conveniently obfuscated and difficult to understand or simulate ourselves—perhaps intentionally obfuscated to make it unclear what shortcuts are being taken or if the minds are running inside the simulation at all.
Likewise chemistry bottoms out in near-intractable quantum soup, the end result being that almost all related knowledge has to be experimentally determined and compiled into large tables of physical properties. Quantum mechanics does relatively to constrain this in practice; I think large molecules and heavy elements’ properties could diverge significantly from what-we-would-predict if we could run large enough QM simulations without it being detectable.
It’s awfully convenient most of us spend all our time running on autopilot and then coming up with post-hoc justifications of our behavior. Why we’re scarcely more convincing than GPT explaining the actions of a game NPC. I wonder why we’re like that… (see point 1).
I’m sure folks could come up with other examples. It’s kind of an odd change of pace how science keeps running into bizarre smokescreens everywhere we look after the progress seen in the last few centuries. How many oddities are hiding just a little deeper?
I don’t personally find the above persuasive on net, but it is the first tree I’d go barking up if I was giving that hypothesis further consideration.
Taking the premise at face value for sake of argument.
You should be surprised just how many fields of study bottom out in something intractable to simulate or re-derive from first principals.
The substrate that all agents seem to run on seems conveniently obfuscated and difficult to understand or simulate ourselves—perhaps intentionally obfuscated to make it unclear what shortcuts are being taken or if the minds are running inside the simulation at all.
Likewise chemistry bottoms out in near-intractable quantum soup, the end result being that almost all related knowledge has to be experimentally determined and compiled into large tables of physical properties. Quantum mechanics does relatively to constrain this in practice; I think large molecules and heavy elements’ properties could diverge significantly from what-we-would-predict if we could run large enough QM simulations without it being detectable.
It’s awfully convenient most of us spend all our time running on autopilot and then coming up with post-hoc justifications of our behavior. Why we’re scarcely more convincing than GPT explaining the actions of a game NPC. I wonder why we’re like that… (see point 1).
I’m sure folks could come up with other examples. It’s kind of an odd change of pace how science keeps running into bizarre smokescreens everywhere we look after the progress seen in the last few centuries. How many oddities are hiding just a little deeper?
I don’t personally find the above persuasive on net, but it is the first tree I’d go barking up if I was giving that hypothesis further consideration.