Debunking Simulation Hypothesis

Deepak Chopra style glib bullshit by self proclaimed "intelligent" sapiens are not different from other bullshit propagated by "unintelligent" sapiens (think fake moon landing, to seeing Jesus in Banana).

We need more common sense research like this one: 

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few attempts have been made to formally spell out what “simulation” even means.

A new paper by SFI Professor David Wolpert aims to change that. In Journal of Physics: Complexity, Wolpert introduces the first mathematically precise framework for what it would mean for one universe to simulate another — and shows that several longstanding claims about simulations break down once the concept is defined rigorously. His results point to a far stranger landscape than previous arguments suggest, including the possibility that a universe capable of simulating another could itself be perfectly reproduced inside that very simulation.

“This entire debate lacked basic mathematical scaffolding,” Wolpert says. “Once you build that scaffolding, the problem becomes clearer — and far more interesting.”