Speed prior type reasons. Like, a basic intuition is “my experiences are being produced somehow, by some process”. Speed prior leads to “this process is at least somewhat efficient”.
Like, usually if you see a hard computation being done (e.g. mining bitcoin), you would assume it happened somewhere. If one’s experiences are produced by some process, and that process is computationally hard, it raises the question “is the computation happening somewhere?”
I agree with J Bostock. I see no problem with A. Why do you think that polynomial complexity is this important?
(Thanks for a very nice structuring, btw!)
Speed prior type reasons. Like, a basic intuition is “my experiences are being produced somehow, by some process”. Speed prior leads to “this process is at least somewhat efficient”.
Like, usually if you see a hard computation being done (e.g. mining bitcoin), you would assume it happened somewhere. If one’s experiences are produced by some process, and that process is computationally hard, it raises the question “is the computation happening somewhere?”
Does your speed prior predict that we won’t build a quantum computer large enough that simulating it is >99% of the work of simulating us?
No but it’s complicated. Wrote about speed prior + QM previously here.