This rules out interventionist simulations, and inaccurate ones in the sense of miracles. But I think it is important to point out that this is quite different from ruling out simulations that differ from the universe running them altogether, where the rules were never the same rules to begin with.
Plenty of things get simulated with fixed rules for reasons that have nothing to do with modeling the world outside them. An untouched world doesn't tell us much about what the world is for.
It also seems probable that there would be a large class of simulated
This rules out interventionist simulations, and inaccurate ones in the sense of miracles. But I think it is important to point out that this is quite different from ruling out simulations that differ from the universe running them altogether, where the rules were never the same rules to begin with.
Plenty of things get simulated with fixed rules for reasons that have nothing to do with modeling the world outside them. An untouched world doesn't tell us much about what the world is for.
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