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joe_montana comments on You are (mostly) a simulation. - Less Wrong Discussion

-4 Post author: Eitan_Zohar 18 July 2015 04:40PM

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Comment author: joe_montana 18 July 2015 10:25:11PM 0 points [-]

If we are in simulated universe, you don't have to worry. With high probability (99%) the outer universe is also simulation.

Comment author: turchin 18 July 2015 10:39:56PM 0 points [-]

Matrioshka universe is not stable because glitch on any level will terminate downlevel

Comment author: joe_montana 18 July 2015 10:56:30PM *  0 points [-]

If they are using backups on their simulators/computers, they just restart from the last backup. Therefore if the root universe is using backups and all simulated are copy from the root, the system is stable. The restart is not visible inside the simulated universe.