You can’t recover information after it has been eaten by entropy. Even in a deterministic universe (which ours isn’t), some information leaks into you and your forensic device (and you need all of it to reconstruct it), and the limited precision of your measuring device means some information will be forever beyond your reach (and it will get there fairly quickly). It’s impossible from within the universe to reconstruct anything after its information-theoretic death. It’s physically impossible, not a technological challenge. Unless you’re the Ellimist.
None of that is necessary. All the future superintelligence needs to do is create many historical sims in order to fulfill the simulation argument. If it does that in our future, then we (edit: likely) already are sims now, and our resurrection is thus straightforward.
This exact argument is already presented late in the article: “In the event that we’re in a simulation already, many of the barriers facing the scanning of an entire universe (or at least a solar system, accounting for miniscule external gravitational influences) are solved. That information already exists in the simulation back end.”
You can’t recover information after it has been eaten by entropy. Even in a deterministic universe (which ours isn’t), some information leaks into you and your forensic device (and you need all of it to reconstruct it), and the limited precision of your measuring device means some information will be forever beyond your reach (and it will get there fairly quickly). It’s impossible from within the universe to reconstruct anything after its information-theoretic death. It’s physically impossible, not a technological challenge.
Unless you’re the Ellimist.None of that is necessary. All the future superintelligence needs to do is create many historical sims in order to fulfill the simulation argument. If it does that in our future, then we (edit: likely) already are sims now, and our resurrection is thus straightforward.
This exact argument is already presented late in the article: “In the event that we’re in a simulation already, many of the barriers facing the scanning of an entire universe (or at least a solar system, accounting for miniscule external gravitational influences) are solved. That information already exists in the simulation back end.”
You might’ve finished reading before you replied
“likely already are,” right?
Yeah