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Could you explain the reasons a bit more or provide some further reading that explain their relevance?
– christo183
Commented Jun 2, 2022 at 9:15
@christo183: To what level? These are all hard concepts; and the science of computer science has gotten to the point where it can say things about computing problems in arbitrary physics. But someone who doesn't know in their bones "there are more atoms in a thimble of water than there are thimbles of water in the oceans" will have a hard time of it.
– Joshua
Commented Jun 2, 2022 at 14:03
Doesn't this assume that the simulator doesn't use heuristics
– Darrell
Commented Jun 26 at 22:31
@Darrell: No, no it does not. It would seem that has to be the case but it really doesn't. The amazing answer is quantum mechanics doesn't change when you're not studying the system and this has been put to the test by light beam tricks that would require heuristics to solve the harder problem of rolling back the simulation after discovering after the fact that oops somebody was looking at the exact answer after all.
– Joshua
Commented Jun 27 at 0:29

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