Konkvistador comments on If we live in a simulation, what does that imply? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Or maybe there isn't a basement universe. Maybe the stack never bottoms out. Think about it do you actually need one of those or are we just assuming you do because we assumed we lived in an unsimulated universe for most of our lives?
The basement universe if it exists seems likely to have certain odd traits.
If the stack never bottoms out, I would expect by Occam's that we would eventually find some evidence that we are not the top, and that there is probably no top, ever.
This would, as far as I can tell, imply various uncomfortable things, and would require getting over the deep-seated objections some people have against any conception of the universe that contains the concept "infinity" anywhere in it.