• Zoolander@lemmy.world
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    9 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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      9 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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        9 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.