{"id":19285,"date":"2012-12-12T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=19285"},"modified":"2012-12-12T12:41:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:41:16","slug":"sims-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19285","title":{"rendered":"Sims follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick follow-up to my (holy crap) 5 year old post &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/211\">Are we The Sims?<\/a>&#8216; Some researchers think they can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/10\/do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation-uw-researchers-say-idea-can-be-tested\/\">detect flaws<\/a> in the simulation &#8211; if we are indeed in one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Savage said, there are signatures of resource constraints in present-day simulations that are likely to exist as well in simulations in the distant future, including the imprint of an underlying lattice if one is used to model the space-time continuum.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/10\/do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation-uw-researchers-say-idea-can-be-tested\/\">*<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I especially like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For example, Davoudi suggests that if our universe is a simulation, then those running it could be running other simulations as well, essentially creating other universes parallel to our own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the question is, \u2018Can you communicate with those other universes if they are running on the same platform?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A better Skynet &#8211; the simulation host becomes a strongly godlike AI when it&#8217;s universes start comparing notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick follow-up to my (holy crap) 5 year old post &#8216;Are we The Sims?&#8216; Some researchers think they can detect flaws in the simulation &#8211; if we are indeed in one. &#8230;Savage said, there are signatures of resource constraints &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-sys","tag-sims"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-513","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19291,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions\/19291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}