I don’t feel confused about this at all, and your entire concept of reality fluid looks confused. Keywords here are “look” and “feel”, I don’t have any actual justification and thus despite feeling lots of confidence-the-emotion I probably (hopefully) wouldn’t bet on it.
It sure looks a lot like “reality fluid” is just what extrapolated priors over universes feel like from the inside when they have been excluded from feeling like probabilities for one reason or another.
in response to the actual test thou: it seem that depends on what exactly you mean by “straightforwardly”, as well as on actual physics. There are basically 3 main classes of possibilities: Either something akin to Mangled Worlds automatically falls out of the equations, in which case they do with most types of simulation method. Or that doesn’t happen and you simulate in the forwards direction way with a number attached to each point in configuration space (aka, what’d happen automatically if you did it in C++), in which case they don’t. Or you “simulate” it functional programming style where history is traced backwards in a more particle like way from the point you are trying to look at (aka, what would happen automatically if you did it in Haskell), in which case they sort of do, but probably with some bias. In all cases, the “reason” for the simulations “realness” turning out like it did is in some sense the same one as for ours. This information probably does not make sense since it’s a 5 second intuition haphazardly translated from visual metaphor as well as some other noise source I forgot about.
Oh, and I don’t really know anything about quantum mechanics and there’s probably some catch specific to them that precludes one or more of these alternatives, possibly all of them. I’m fully aware most of what I’m saying is probably nonsense, I’m just hoping it’s surprising nonsense and ironmaning it might yield something useful.
I downvoted because this seems to be a case of “I don’t know, but I don’t happen to feel confused.” It does not, at least, seem to be “I don’t know, but I don’t feel confused, therefore I know,” which can occasionally happen :D
It’s more of a case of not knowing if I know or not, nor even if I’m confused or not. I do know that thus I’m meta-confused, but that does not necessarily imply object level confusion. It’s a black boxes and lack of introspective access thing.
I don’t feel confused about this at all, and your entire concept of reality fluid looks confused. Keywords here are “look” and “feel”, I don’t have any actual justification and thus despite feeling lots of confidence-the-emotion I probably (hopefully) wouldn’t bet on it.
It sure looks a lot like “reality fluid” is just what extrapolated priors over universes feel like from the inside when they have been excluded from feeling like probabilities for one reason or another.
in response to the actual test thou: it seem that depends on what exactly you mean by “straightforwardly”, as well as on actual physics. There are basically 3 main classes of possibilities: Either something akin to Mangled Worlds automatically falls out of the equations, in which case they do with most types of simulation method. Or that doesn’t happen and you simulate in the forwards direction way with a number attached to each point in configuration space (aka, what’d happen automatically if you did it in C++), in which case they don’t. Or you “simulate” it functional programming style where history is traced backwards in a more particle like way from the point you are trying to look at (aka, what would happen automatically if you did it in Haskell), in which case they sort of do, but probably with some bias. In all cases, the “reason” for the simulations “realness” turning out like it did is in some sense the same one as for ours. This information probably does not make sense since it’s a 5 second intuition haphazardly translated from visual metaphor as well as some other noise source I forgot about.
Oh, and I don’t really know anything about quantum mechanics and there’s probably some catch specific to them that precludes one or more of these alternatives, possibly all of them. I’m fully aware most of what I’m saying is probably nonsense, I’m just hoping it’s surprising nonsense and ironmaning it might yield something useful.
I downvoted because this seems to be a case of “I don’t know, but I don’t happen to feel confused.” It does not, at least, seem to be “I don’t know, but I don’t feel confused, therefore I know,” which can occasionally happen :D
It’s more of a case of not knowing if I know or not, nor even if I’m confused or not. I do know that thus I’m meta-confused, but that does not necessarily imply object level confusion. It’s a black boxes and lack of introspective access thing.