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==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Do you think we're in simulated reality? :The real question is whether we can simulate reality here. :If we can make a simulation, then we're not in the least complicated reality. :And if that simulation can contain another simulation, then we're at least two from the bottom :If we assume each simulation is at most thousandth the size of the 'universe* and that possible :One it's in, the the perspective smallest volume from of our universe is one planck-volume, then we are :61st from the bottom! :x 61 :So, are there any simulations above us? :Well for that we'd just have to find signs that we're optimized for good computation. :Like maybe a minimum temperature or a maximum speed or a rule that position and momentum are only knowable to certain tolerances. :Oh my god! I'm just a program! :And I'm not even :A good one! :Hey now that's not true. :The universe is a program. You're :Just a subroutine.
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