My confused understanding of this is that each subsequent layer gets simpler, but more consistent and at some point the agent says “good enough”? So going by this, you should assume that worlds with magic (or maybe miracles or in general, special cases) in them are unlikely to be base reality? Which is why factorizations, weather systems etc. are good methods to check your layer—they’re like Go vs Monopoly?
Humans don’t seem to be too good at this—those who think a lot about it tend to conclude that they aren’t in base reality—that’s the main point of many (most?) religions.
My confused understanding of this is that each subsequent layer gets simpler, but more consistent and at some point the agent says “good enough”? So going by this, you should assume that worlds with magic (or maybe miracles or in general, special cases) in them are unlikely to be base reality? Which is why factorizations, weather systems etc. are good methods to check your layer—they’re like Go vs Monopoly?
Humans don’t seem to be too good at this—those who think a lot about it tend to conclude that they aren’t in base reality—that’s the main point of many (most?) religions.