Ok, I see what you’re saying. If our world’s rules align with what we consider to be computationally efficient, then that is at least moderate evidence for living in a simulation. I’m not sure whether that is consistently the case, though.
As for your Minecraft point, what I was saying was that you would have to instantiate the intelligence within the Minecraft world, running by its rules. And I can’t see how anything like that could arise naturally in there. It would have to just sort of appear suddenly.
I guess you could also have it running externally and only feed it input from Minecraft, but that seems like even further evidence for a simulation from its perspective (“everything else in the world fits into relatively simple rules, but I’m a super complex black box that also just suddenly popped in here”).
Ok, I see what you’re saying. If our world’s rules align with what we consider to be computationally efficient, then that is at least moderate evidence for living in a simulation. I’m not sure whether that is consistently the case, though.
As for your Minecraft point, what I was saying was that you would have to instantiate the intelligence within the Minecraft world, running by its rules. And I can’t see how anything like that could arise naturally in there. It would have to just sort of appear suddenly.
I guess you could also have it running externally and only feed it input from Minecraft, but that seems like even further evidence for a simulation from its perspective (“everything else in the world fits into relatively simple rules, but I’m a super complex black box that also just suddenly popped in here”).