• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Do “they” ever intervene or do you think its strictly regulated, like double-blind or whatever?

    Like do you think they actually do or can pick favorites (protagonists/main characters) or is it way more sterile?

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      11 months ago

      If it’s truly meant as a simulation, then intervening in any way would go against the purpose of the simulation.

      Just think about how we run our simulations. We give the computer parameters about the “real” world because we’re interested in the results. If our entire world is a simulation, amongst other simulations, then intervening would ruin the simulation.

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        11 months ago

        Checkpointing interesting points in simulations and rerunning with modified parameters happens literally all the time

        Especially weather / climate / geology and medicine

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          11 months ago

          They’re re-run, though. You don’t change the parameters in the middle of the simulation. That goes against the point of simulating something.