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FeepingCreature comments on Open thread, August 12-18, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 19 August 2013 12:53:21AM 0 points [-]

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.