Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "Y Combinator" channel.

  1. I really wish Prof Susskind would take a closer look at simulation theories and apply his own unique twist to the concept. It doesn't necessarily require existence to be the result of a computer. If you boil it all down, it can actually work with the holographic principle. With or without a computer, the universe has to be "rendered" somehow. Fields can simply be seen as layers in a rendering process and perhaps the method does indeed use an encoding that involves a 2D representation of 3D information. I think the reason many physicists don't like simulation theories is because, in the end, quantum mechanics ends up being best explained as an "artifact" created by an incomplete rendering process. Consider, if you existed entirely within a rendering which cut corners by truncating/approximating calculations below a certain scale, what would that look like if you attempted to reverse engineer the rendering process? The tiny scale where corners are cut, would appear to behave statistically. Heck, it would explain the double slit at least as well if not better than anything else does. Information for particles is held as wavefunctions rather than constantly being calculated for each particle (to reduce workload/energy consumption.) In a double slit, detecting which slit a particle came through would force a calculation which would collapse the wavefunction and then generate a new one once said calculation has been performed. Since the newly generated wavefunction was created after passing through the slits, there would be no interference pattern. If no calculations are needed until the particle hits a detector, then you get interference as the result of a "bug" or limitation in the code handling the process. Whether or not it's actually done on a computer or simply by the "rendering" process of the universe itself doesn't really matter. You can still reverse engineer it and perhaps find bugs and glitches like say...ER bridges to potentially exploit to your benefit. Just a thought.
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