At the same time though, not calculating a value until something actually needs it is exactly the kind of efficiency hack one would really want to implement if they were going to simulate an entire universe...
So if we are in some level of sub-reality that would make it much more likely that the model is correct, even if there’s no way for us to actually test it...
So from a practical point of view, it comes down entirely to which model lets us most effectively predict things. Since that’s what we actually care about. I’ll take a collection of “parlour tricks” that can tell me things about the future with high confidence over a provably self-consistent system that is wrong more often.
At the same time though, not calculating a value until something actually needs it is exactly the kind of efficiency hack one would really want to implement if they were going to simulate an entire universe...
So if we are in some level of sub-reality that would make it much more likely that the model is correct, even if there’s no way for us to actually test it...
So from a practical point of view, it comes down entirely to which model lets us most effectively predict things. Since that’s what we actually care about. I’ll take a collection of “parlour tricks” that can tell me things about the future with high confidence over a provably self-consistent system that is wrong more often.