I basically agree. There’s both the practical issue and the theoretical one.
In our universe, we can’t simulate these universes/mathematical objects that are simulating us, and reasoning about properties of computational things without simulating them is often hard to impossible.
Supposing we did have big compute and could simulate this thing that simulates us—can we choose actions such that they’re not incentivized to try to manipulate us? Should we even assign measure to the mathematical multiverse such that we care? I think the answers are “yes” and “maybe not,” but am unsure.
I basically agree. There’s both the practical issue and the theoretical one.
In our universe, we can’t simulate these universes/mathematical objects that are simulating us, and reasoning about properties of computational things without simulating them is often hard to impossible.
Supposing we did have big compute and could simulate this thing that simulates us—can we choose actions such that they’re not incentivized to try to manipulate us? Should we even assign measure to the mathematical multiverse such that we care? I think the answers are “yes” and “maybe not,” but am unsure.