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UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis

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21 points mxkopy | 4 comments | 02 Nov 25 19:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.005s | source
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beardyw ◴[02 Nov 25 20:22 UTC] No.45793086[source]▶
I always felt that most numbers being irrational would make simulation tricky.

On the other hand, if it's just me, and everything including you is just simulated for my benefit, it's not too hard.

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anon291 ◴[03 Nov 25 02:43 UTC] No.45795385[source]▶
There are no irrational numbers measurable in the universe. Irrational numbers as far as we encounter are computable via straightforward algorithms.
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1. beardyw ◴[03 Nov 25 10:12 UTC] No.45797523[source]▶
> There are no irrational numbers measurable in the universe.

Because of course measurement reduces them to rational. That doesn't make them go away.

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2. anon291 ◴[03 Nov 25 19:00 UTC] No.45802885[source]▶
Unproveable superstitious rubbish. Irrational numbers exist as ideas, but there is no physical evidence that they are found in nature. We have processes that in their ideal limit will converge to numbers known to be irrational, and the law of large numbers certainly makes them appear to be such, but there is no physical quantity that is measured irrational. In fact we know that at some point we cannot measure much anymore so even the illusion of infinity is null.
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3. beardyw ◴[03 Nov 25 20:29 UTC] No.45804023[source]▶
I refer you to my previous answer.
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4. anon291 ◴[04 Nov 25 02:08 UTC] No.45806766{3}[source]▶
I refer you to my original