“Our reality is a cheap, sloppy hack with lots of bugs. For instance, if you arrange sufficiently similar objects into a pentagon, they lose 6.283% of their mass. Yes, that’s twice pi, I’m not sure why but I think it’s an uninitialized pointer reference. Arranging electrical conductors into a trapezohedron like this produces free energy in the form of photons. And there’s a few frequencies of light that simply don’t exist; emissions that should come out at those points on the spectrum instead roll over the particle counter and come out as neutrinos.”
It could sink enormous resources into researching various possibilities that are conceptually similar to imperfect simulation (such as holographic principle or cosmic console), only to come up with deep and consistent physics that is vastly simpler than remaining simulation hypotheses.
“Our reality is not simulated.”
“Our reality is a cheap, sloppy hack with lots of bugs. For instance, if you arrange sufficiently similar objects into a pentagon, they lose 6.283% of their mass. Yes, that’s twice pi, I’m not sure why but I think it’s an uninitialized pointer reference. Arranging electrical conductors into a trapezohedron like this produces free energy in the form of photons. And there’s a few frequencies of light that simply don’t exist; emissions that should come out at those points on the spectrum instead roll over the particle counter and come out as neutrinos.”
How does the AI know?
It could sink enormous resources into researching various possibilities that are conceptually similar to imperfect simulation (such as holographic principle or cosmic console), only to come up with deep and consistent physics that is vastly simpler than remaining simulation hypotheses.