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Comment author: drethelin 08 July 2014 04:46:03AM *  1 point [-]

A quicker way to find out if you're going to be wiped out in a vast game is to break the rules which summons the referee to destroy you.

This is similar to people suggesting we do arbitrarily complex calculations to test the simulation hypothesis

Comment author: Algernoq 18 July 2014 04:46:15AM 0 points [-]

I get a sense of doom whenever I think about this. But that's not evidence.

Let's make a list of different possible ways to break reality.