Comment by ericjang
10 years ago
If we're living in a simulation and our creators see that we're running our own simulations, they may terminate our process to avoid nested virtualization.
10 years ago
If we're living in a simulation and our creators see that we're running our own simulations, they may terminate our process to avoid nested virtualization.
But by doing so they could invoke the wrath of the grandparent simulation. Logic leads to an implicit understanding that all recursive simulations must be allowed.
Why would our creators want to avoid nested simulation?
The singularity would probably overheat the host computer.
Possibly. Our simulation might be run on hypercomputers whose performance isn't affected by that sort of complexity. Heat might not even exist in the host universe's physics.
System going down for maintenance now
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They probably already figured it out if they can build a simulation this huge.