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Algernoq comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, December 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Algernoq 05 December 2015 10:04:44AM 2 points [-]

The computer could just halve our clock speed every time we launch a new simulation. No matter how many simulations we launch, our clock speed never reaches zero, so everything continues as normal inside our simulation. Problem solved! Suggested reading: "Hotel Infinity" followed by "Permutation City".

If you wanted to launch a higher order of infinity number of ssimulation from inside our simulation, that would be another story...

Comment author: Kyre 05 December 2015 11:13:45PM 0 points [-]

That's the unbounded computation case.