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2021-03-03 Science & Technology

Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation

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Posted by 3dc 2021-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Sussman and Wisdom showed that the solar system is chaotic, with expected stability less than 300 million years.

This leaves unanswered the question of why it has been stable for billions of years.

Though I’m very cautious about thinking this fellow has a handle on chaotic motion, I’m certainly going to read his paper.

Posted by KBK 2021-03-03 00:28|| 2021-03-03 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The AI knows, but it’s not telling us how it knows, because it doesn’t know. We don’t either, because we just built a computing structure. We didn’t program it.

Posted by KBK 2021-03-03 00:32|| 2021-03-03 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 GIGO

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-03 00:49|| 2021-03-03 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 It's rediscovering laws of physics and other rules that govern behavior. How is that in any way "proving reality is a simulation"?

Posted by Whaise Sforza1697 2021-03-03 03:52|| 2021-03-03 03:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Aristotelian had it wrong? I'm figuring out how to pay the tax lady. I'll ponder the universe another day.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-03 03:56|| 2021-03-03 03:56|| Front Page Top

#6 If I understand correctly, the writers of the article possibly just needed a catchy title. Hong just based his work on the premise that the universe may be running off a set of parameters that recur and can be thus predicted. Discrete Field Theory is not the position that the universe is a simulation, it just treats the universe as one to catch patterns in it.

But the academics must have been drawn to only the words 'reality is a simulation' because it covers so many of their own suppositions like 'gender is imaginary', 'history is relative uhh.. because time is relative?', etc.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-03-03 04:23|| 2021-03-03 04:23|| Front Page Top

#7 #6, you forgot Global Warming.

Posted by Spoter B 2021-03-03 06:52|| 2021-03-03 06:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The algorithm just printed out 42

Posted by DarthVader 2021-03-03 08:24|| 2021-03-03 08:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Great! Now we can blame this recent clusterf%$k iteration we live in as a simulation gone amok. I suggest Hon Qin look into leftist policies as the cause for this current debacle.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-03 08:24|| 2021-03-03 08:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, I saw this movie, its called The Matrix

Posted by Courts Snout8066 2021-03-03 08:41|| 2021-03-03 08:41|| Front Page Top

#11

Well, if AI says we are a simulation then, we should strive to replace useless things with more usable things.

Our first priority:

Replaced with

Oil Refinery

Posted by Gnomon Phones6812 2021-03-03 10:16|| 2021-03-03 10:16|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 Yeah, I saw this movie, its called The Matrix

I think "13th Floor" is more appropriate. A simulation within a simulation within reality (or simulation?).

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-03-03 19:48|| 2021-03-03 19:48|| Front Page Top

#13 John Von Neumann: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." An anecdote by Freeman Dyson relates that he was gently chided by Enrico Fermi using this quote -- the moral of the story was that hypothesizing without physical tests doesn't prove anything.

Posted by magpie 2021-03-03 20:02|| 2021-03-03 20:02|| Front Page Top

#14 Actually Reality is, by definition real.

The Physicist, however, is a simulation.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-03-03 21:00|| 2021-03-03 21:00|| Front Page Top

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