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From the article: We are reasonably certain that our own universe is running as a simulation on such a computer. Humanity decides not to probe for bugs in the simulation; we wouldn't want to shut ourselves down accidentally.

That puts a new twist on the anthropomorthic principle. The only universes that are observed are the ones that have observers - and haven't crashed their universe.




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