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They make a lot of simplifying assumptions, because they don't just care about computability, but about finishing runs of their simulations before the heatdeath of the universe.

Our discussion was about the computability only, wasn't it?



That's true, it was a weak point. I'll have to think about why this unsettles me, thanks for the food for thought.


Btw, https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf is really, really good, and I stole some of my points from there.




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