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/sci/ maybe?

>>2908
There's been a thread there for ages.

>>2908
/sci/ is pretty much dead as far as I know. Do you have a tl;dr version or brief explanation of the simulator?

>>2912
Yes.
Marked out in capital letters at the top of the paste.

>>2915
>Look at how a bunch of small things behave together, make a medium thing that behaves like that bunch of small things; Look at how a bunch of medium things behave together, make a big thing that behaves like that bunch of medium things; and so on…
chortle clear as mud

>>2918
There's not really a good inbetween level of brevity.
The 1-sentence explanation gives the concept in its most simple form, any elaboration less than a full one would get confusing since it would have many apparent loose ends in the idea that are cleared up by the full idea.

>>2918 brings up a good point.
>>2921
What are the "things" that are behaving? Did you have something specific in mind or these objects?

>>2922
The smallest things might be quarks.
The simulator looks at how different arrangements of quarks behave together as far as an external observer is concerned, and makes larger entities that mimic the external appearance of each of those arrangements.

As an example for that, the simulator can simulate two up quarks and a down quark together, and then make a proton that behaves just like that system but is cheaper to simulate as it is only one object.

Then it can use the same trick again to make atoms that are also single objects, then molecules, eventually macroscopic systems.

I don't think the universe is deterministic