The simulation may therefore need to include a continuous representation of computers down to the level of individual logic elements. This presents no problem, since our current computing power is negligible by posthuman standards.
Assuming, of course, the simulation is never allowed to progress to posthuman levels where simulated computational resources begin to approach that of the simulation. This of course assumes the simulation runs too quickly to upgrade the technology in step with the progressing simulated reality, which the author of the paper implies.
Some suggested there might be layers of simulations. Infinite recursion of the sub -realities would overwhelm and terminate the top-level simulation doing all the simluation.
Thus the outcomes given by the author are not mutually exclusive, because if we accept that we are in a simulation, we also accept that we must become extinct before we can create our own simulation.
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The simulation may therefore need to include a continuous representation of computers down to the level of individual logic elements. This presents no problem, since our current computing power is negligible by posthuman standards.
Assuming, of course, the simulation is never allowed to progress to posthuman levels where simulated computational resources begin to approach that of the simulation. This of course assumes the simulation runs too quickly to upgrade the technology in step with the progressing simulated reality, which the author of the paper implies.
Some suggested there might be layers of simulations. Infinite recursion of the sub -realities would overwhelm and terminate the top-level simulation doing all the simluation.
Thus the outcomes given by the author are not mutually exclusive, because if we accept that we are in a simulation, we also accept that we must become extinct before we can create our own simulation.