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Jul 6, 2021

because I had the experience recently of being in a room with people in universal agreement about bostrom's simulation argument i wrote this

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Against Bostromian Sophistry

Nick Bostrom's arguments for simulation and superintelligence ignore the fundamental limitations of computing.

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I don't think your argument attacks simulation at all. Take the n-body problem; it's analytic solutions that fail against it, not simulations. I have a hard time accepting any non-computability of physics when our computation devices are made out of physics. We can include it.

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that was going to be my comment as well - n-body and fluid dynamics are very computable, they just don't have nice closed forms (or alternatively, have singularities if you choose the wrong formalisms, like newtonian dynamics)

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and if the argument is that the universe is so continuous (as in, infinite precision) that it can't be simulated, then the issue is really with step 1 already ("the universe is computable")