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Sole.Sushi
Feb 19, 2008

Seaweed!? Get the fuck out!

Buttmeister posted:

Also, if it was somehow possible for a 1:1 simulation of the universe to be accelerated and observed, and the observer has gathered that in the next thirty seconds he will pick up a black pen, but instead decides to not pick up anything at all, what happens?

The pen is not picked up. Your reality is then different from the simulation, which in turn is now entirely useless as it is no longer accurate. You pick up the pen anyways to not invalidate the massive effort it took to make a 1:1 simulation of the universe.
Alternately, no simulation is perfect, and you just don't pick up the pen.

EDIT: also, one must assume that the universe is contained within itself, that all currently accepted truths are to remain constant. Hypothetically, if we were to devise a way to breach this reality and into an alternate one, the entire simulation would fail. This is mostly science fiction, but there are theories that suggest that such a thing could happen.

Disclaimer: I am not an expert. :v:

Sole.Sushi fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Sep 6, 2016

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