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It was Nick Bostrom who coined the "simulation hypothesis" but the concept of a simulated universe touches upon many related ideas: from Descartes' "evil genius" to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream within a dream". Use this tag when manifest reality is contingent on the machination of a more "real" domain.

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Can we know anything about the "outside", if we are in a simulation?

If we look at simulators today, we dont actually compute the laws of physics precisely to simulate an environment. We use heuristics to approximate laws of physics, saving an awful lot of compute in t …
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