You are confusing the singularity with simulation ability as a pre-req which was never mentioned. Being able to simulate reality is a pre-req in the basilisk thought experiment. I did not state any conditions for the singularity, yet you are correcting me on something not being a condition for it...
I'm not confusing that at all - the posts you've quoted show the opposite, they literally show me stateing, for the sake of clarity, that they are seperate (you've then made your own assumption that this is a correction - just read what was posted please, don't assume!) - how many times do I need to highlight that it isn't a condition????
To be clear - if a singularity event comes about it is not conditional on this thought experiment being possible.
They are separate things.
Is that clear now - that I'm quite aware they are separate things? - I'm specifically
not conflating them!
How would I not follow when it was my post that presented this idea?
Because you conflated the idea of multiple universes with simulating multiple universes, you said:
"For the rest of what you've said - the multiverse theory, multiple worlds. Not sure how you can talk with such conviction about that being definitively how everything works"
What I've said doesn't rest on that thus I've highlighted that to you and checked that you still follow?
You don't seem to have followed, for example, that I'm not conflating the possibility of the singularity with this thought experiment when I've taken the time to make it clear across several posts that one isn't conditional for the other... yet here we are again with you assuming I have done that... There isn't much discussion to be had if follow up posts are going to be muddled like that, You're just going to end up talking past me, thus I want to make sure the points I've made are clear/understood by you. I'm not sure I can safely assume they are so far.
Please try to stick to what I've actually said instead of making additional assumptions about things I've not said please as it helps to avoids this issue. Talking about simulating multiple universes is not the same thing as stating a position re: there being multiple universes - that requires an additional assumption on your part.
Tbh I have over zealously added that in as a requirement when it was never mentioned in the original video. Yet I've thought about the concept a little too much and gone for the jugular with what's required in terms of complexity.
Either we find a way to simulate existence by brute force (because it can be done so fast) until we find a carbon copy of us just now, or shortcuts with convergence can be done - run a single simulation with lower fidelity through to the present day, then rerun from a point in history where the earth can largely be considered a closed system away from external influences of the universe (and thus reducing the complexity of the sim by [universe - 1 solar system] and keep iterating, increasing fidelity where needed. This is called convergence in modern day physics simulations and gives very accurate results in the localised areas of interest.
Well that's still pretty dubious - you're now talking about approximations, that might well be great for physics simulations but you're then introducing errors and excluding any outside event beyond that localised simulation especially if this is getting down to simulating individual humans and how they end up behaving etc..
Some of these humans are going to look at the stars - some subset of human relationships, babies born, engagements made, first dates etc.. might happen under said stars... now your closed simulation doesn't have them...
Oh but you'll perhaps now have to wiggle back a bit - will you approximate those stars?
OK well some of those humans will be Physicists/astrophysicists observing stars far away in the universe, events that occured many light years ago etc..
Just as a general point if you introduce approximations you're allowing for errors - this doesn't stack up well with you wanting the level of granularity you'd perhaps need to simulate all the possible outcomes of various events and look at how individual humans behave, what their thoughts and actions are etc..etc..
And that's before we get back to the point where the search space for this would be ridiculously massive... even for this apparent closed system (which by default now must contain approximations and therefore errors) if you need to simulate many many versions then you'll still end up with some resource requirement beyond that perhaps of just simulating the entire known universe once.
If you don't have the closed system then you've still got the feasibility issue - is it even possible to accurately simulate the universe from within the universe - there is the resource issue mentioned before, there is another issue that your simulation exists within the universe... this becomes a bit recursive - you've gotta simulate your simulation and so on.... I think you'd need to be outside the universe in order to simulate it.
The answer to these objections so far is basically a hand waving one of magical things being possible because future technology....
