army1987 comments on If we live in a simulation, what does that imply? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Honestly, not much, at least in the foreseeable future -- data from cosmic ray experiments are way too noisy to discriminate between source models. (We've been able to rule out the hypothesis that a sizeable fraction of UHECRs are decay products of as-yet-unknown extremely heavy particles, but that's pretty much it.) But see this. (I've tried a dozen times to download the paper and failed -- are the Simulators messing with me? Aaaargh.)
Ah, I've read that article before. From what I understood, they essentially conclude "Here's a way we could tell the difference if we were simulated with system X. However, it's unlikely that we would be simulated with system X." without giving all that much evidence concerning other possible simulation systems.
Personally, I hold the belief that if 1) we are a simulation and 2) the simulation will not be stopped at some near point in time, then we will eventually discover the fact that we are running in a simulated universe and begin learning about the "outside", by reasoning that:
However, I doubt we'll find this by noticing any discrepancy in the resolution of the simulation in different parts of it.