somervta comments on Open thread, August 12-18, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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If we are, in fact, running in a simulation, there's little reason to think this is true.
I think you need to differentiate between "physical" simulations and "VR" simulations. In a physical simulation, the only way of arriving at a universe state is to compute all the states that precede it.