minecraft steve: once upon a time i dreamt i was a fleshman, walking around hither and thither in the real life fleshy world, and this blocky world we're in right now was a mere simulation running on my fleshy self's laptop. but soon i awoke, and i wondered: was i then minecraft steve dreaming himself as a fleshman, or am i now a fleshman playing as minecraft steve?
minecraft solomonoff: the minecraft source together with Java Development Kit 25 as well as your world seed and your coordinates within that world come out to several gigabytes. meanwhile to specify the physical laws of the fleshworld and its initial condition, as well as to index into the particular location in fleshspacetime the laptop that runs the copy of minecraft that you're sitting in inhabits, that requires. um. probably less than a gigabyte, surely? the fleshphysicists of the fleshworld assure me that their rules are quite simple indeed. and so don't you see it's vastly more likely for all of this to be a simulation?
steve: but the thing about minecraft is it's deterministic, or at least this minecraft is, i've disabled all mobs and never look in chests or enchant weapons or fish or set fires, all i want in my minecraft life is to walk around and mine and craft and such. the flesh universe, on the other hand, i'm told it's quantum; every time you collapse a wavefunction you're accumulating index bits. which sure comes out to a lot of bits, now doesn't it. gigabytes upon gigabytes piling up, and with each one the fleshworld an ever more unlikely dream...
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