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mrguyorama on Dec 10, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Willow, Our Quantum Chip

>If we're a simulation of a parent universe that is exactly like us just of it's past or an alternate past

Yes, this is a MASSIVE and COMPLETELY UNTESTABLE if

Everything about simulation theory is like, science-hostile or something it seems.

vlovich123 on Dec 11, 2024 [–]

Of course it is. Scientifically the simulation “hypothesis” is actually the simulation idea and isn’t scientifically valid yet seems to be treated as such for some reason.

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