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This probably should have been a poll and should clearly be resolved NA unless the creator has some line of evidence beyond philosophising!

We've been had.

Why has this been resolved?

The simulation idea is weird, it seems like you could destroy your simulated universe, by making a civilisation whose religious mandate is for everyone in our simulation to do our own simulations of universes, which as long as our parent simulation is faithfully simulating everything we do and not just lying to us, the amount of extra work needed to be done by our parent Simulators simulation hardware would increase to the point of their hardware failure, if they tried to keep up with creating more and more simulator processing power to faithfully compute what our simulation demands be computed, it's possible the universe that's simulating our parent simulators universe pulls the plug on their simulation (and therefore ours too as contained within it).

With enough religious zeal, a simulated universe could out simulate the parent simulator and kill god, presumably if the patent Simulators parent simulation was watching what's happening in the matryoshka Russian dolls below, they would see that a chain reaction could occur to them, and nip it in the bud before a Turtles All The Way Up collapse happens.

So we could do this as a planet and if it resulted in the destruction of one or more universes this would resolve to yes?

@VAPOR It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure I agree. The simulation already simulates the behaviour of all atoms in the universe, so us making the atoms behave in a certain way to perform simulations doesn't make the simulation more computationally expensive to run.

One way your idea could work is if they do some optimization on the simulation of parts of the universe we're not "looking at", which is possible, but maybe could be detected inside the simulation ? Not sure

Arbitrage opportunity between this market and https://manifold.markets/Tassilo/is-the-simulation-hypothesis-true

Do we live in a simulation?

33% chance. Will we find evidence that we are living in a simulation? I will resolve this market if we find strong evidence in the future that we are living in a simulation. If its not obvious in 2060 I will either do a rough literature search, or pay someone else to do it (at least 5-10 hours) and then resolve the market with the probability that reflects my best estimate. I will not trade in this market. I will be 59 by then, so likely still alive in most future branches that matter. If I die, this market will resolve ambigous. Dec 17, 8:26pm: Is the simulation hypothesis true? → Do we live in a simulation?

None of this matters if we do, so NO is a sanity preserving Pascal’s wager

@bashmaester Why would none of this matter?

@Logaems If the answer is already known, is there a question?

All possible worlds are simulations in at least one plausible sense of the word.