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datsmamail12 t1_ixdfyw8 wrote

Reply to comment by Mortal-Region in Expert Proposes a Method For Telling if We All Live in a Computer Program by garden_frog

That's based on your point of view for our local society. If we lived in 2300 an entire simulation of the universe could be easily achievable in any guys home. If you have such a tremendous processing power,you wouldn't care how big the universe you created would be. Why does Ubisoft create such big games? Why does every game developer want to create huge world that can be explored,why is there a need for such a massive university in no man's sky? All that is because we can do that,so a highly advanced civilization wouldn't mind creating the biggest universe inside their jar for experimentation.

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Mortal-Region t1_ixe6vy9 wrote

I guess it depends on the purpose of the sim. If the purpose is to study the people, or just to provide them with experiences, then you can create many more people by running an Earth sim billions of times rather than running a universe sim just once. However much processing power they have, it'll still be finite, so efficiency will always be a concern.

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datsmamail12 t1_ixeqexu wrote

Efficiency is a concern for us,not for a highly advanced civilization. Who knows,they might have created a system that runs on unlimited efficieny. Also we don't even know if our universe is finite,let alone another civilization's creation. The universe itself is just so weird,nothing makes sense.

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