@adrienne was talking about whether we are in a simulation or not. I don’t know, and I don’t think I had a good answer -a but I do think this paper is interesting:

“self-replicators arise by studying several computational substrates based on various simple programming languages and machine instruction sets. We show that when random, non self-replicating programs are placed in an environment lacking any explicit fitness landscape, self-replicators tend to arise”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

Von Neumann simulations are even freakier than Von Neumann probes

and that concept is why it’s easy to believe that the probability of existing in base reality could be near zero

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or was it all a dream? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain