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What scientific study are you waiting for that'll just shit on everything we've once thought to have believed in? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Like, we'll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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[โ€“] bunchberry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why would an optimization make things more complicated? The point of optimizations in any simulation is to simplify the complexity of the computation. The entire reason why there is a multi-billionaire industry to research quantum computers is because they are exponentially more difficult to simulate than classical physics, so they are not practical to simulate on a classical computer. Seems weird to me that a simulator would "optimize" things by making them enormously more complex.

[โ€“] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why are we assuming they'd want to optimize it? If they went through the trouble of simulating the entire universe, they probably either have a particular goal in mind, or have such a ludicrously large amount of resources that it doesn't matter.