REMINDER: You are living in a simulation

[Nico]

The whole problem with the hypothesis can be summed up by resolution. Because as we become more advanced we can view the universe in small scale and large scale terms with ever increasing resolution, while accurately predicting the outcome, and that resolution never breaks down, it can be theorised that no matter how advanced the simulation, it can never have infinite resolution (as that would indicate infinite computational power in the simulation, an impossibility). Therefore, while the simulation can't be dismissed, and shouldn't, the more advanced we become the more unlikely the probability that it is a simulation. Since the probability trends down at all times, the final outcome can be said to be closer to it not being a simulation , than it being one. This before we even consider occam's razor.

[The Dharma Bum]

[Nico]

[Boris Johnson]

[The Dharma Bum]

Three possibilities for a rationale behind the simulacrum despite the massive expenditure of energy come to mind.

1. the builders of the simulation have access to a nearly limitless source of energy and simply are not concerned by the cost.

2. perhaps the simulation is a memorial created by a dying species and the energy requirements are irrelevant.

3. only machine intelligence exist after the demise of the human species and they are interested in their origins and so have created the simulacrum to explore the possibilities. In this case the energy requirements may well be worth any cost.

[The Dharma Bum]

Or another possibility.

In the future we devise a way to live forever and it's the simulacrum. Surely continuing existence is worth any expenditure of energy?

[Boris Johnson]

[The Dharma Bum]

[The Dharma Bum]

[Boris Johnson]