One argument I've encountered says that if, in the future, we are capable of creating a simulation where the laws of physics are pretty much the same as of the 'real' world and the entities within it are conscious, then it's probable that we are already residing in such a simulation, operated by someone else.
This is interesting. A tangentially related argument I saw online deals with the complexity of the simulation in distant regions of the universe, as in, if you could somehow make it slowdown in a locally controlled experiment compared to the fullspeed simulation somewhere else, you could prove the universe is "instanced" (think MMO areas/servers), at least for specific parts of it.
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One argument I've encountered says that if, in the future, we are capable of creating a simulation where the laws of physics are pretty much the same as of the 'real' world and the entities within it are conscious, then it's probable that we are already residing in such a simulation, operated by someone else.
This is interesting. A tangentially related argument I saw online deals with the complexity of the simulation in distant regions of the universe, as in, if you could somehow make it slowdown in a locally controlled experiment compared to the fullspeed simulation somewhere else, you could prove the universe is "instanced" (think MMO areas/servers), at least for specific parts of it.
Edit: what if blackholes == instance crashes? o_O