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  1. The calculation for the amount of computing power needed to simulate humanity makes assumptions that inflate the requirement. There's no reason why we would need to be simulated in real-time or even faster than real-time. We currently have simulations where each generation passes in seconds or minutes, and they're still enormously useful or at least entertaining to observe after the fact. It would still be a lot of computing power compared to what we possess right now but not quite as ridiculous. Several orders of magnitude less.

  2. This video is about if future post humans making simulations, but what if the creatures running the simulation made our galaxy up and struggles we face, like conflict and the need for food don't exist. Then they dont need all the right balances to evolve that much as it could be completely different.

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  3. It appears the Earth is an incubator for artificial intelligence. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution is leading to information storing, autonomous robotic life. Once the building is created the scaffolding is removed and discarded…

  4. The video makes a false assumption: that there is a "real" world to be simulated. How can you "simulate" a brain in a simulation? That would suppose an objective world where brains actually exist, and someone who modeled his fake reality on it. What is the bottom turtle standing on?

  5. Video games don't load the entire world you play in, they load pages at a time. The info is only called from storage and placed in queue to be rendered when there is a chance the player might wander into the area. You don't need to render an entire universe, just what the observer sees

  6. We realistically can never prove this argument correct or incorrect with science. Even if we could prove that it is physically impossible for us to reach that level of computing power, that is in OUR universe. If we are in a simulation, whoever is simulating us may live in a universe with entirely separate limitations and rules.

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