Sabine Hossenfelder nails it again – an argument against the simulation hypothesis from physics – but a much better one than usual. The usual one tries to extrapolate physics from our universe to the “outside” one, which doesn’t work: they need not be the same. Sabine argues about the physics of our universe within our universe: how hard it is to get consistent explanations, and why the hypothetical external programmer would have difficulties keeping up with our (simulated) scientists poking their noses into everything.
She’s a little grumpier than usual:
No, we probably don’t live in a computer simulation
All this talk about how we might be living in a computer simulation pisses me off not because I’m afraid people will actually believe it. No, I think most people are much smarter than many self-declared intellectuals like to admit. Most readers will instead correctly conclude that today’s intelligencia is full of shit. And I can’t even blame them for it.
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