The basic laws of physics look simple, even if what they produce is not. Maybe we have not reached the deepest layer yet, but I bet the final rules will be even simpler than the ones we use now. If so, a universe simulation might be a surprisingly small program. Running it would be the hard part. It would need ridiculous amounts of memory, energy and time. Hopefully, its rules give rise to stable physics, matter and stars. Life appears, evolution gets to work, and eventually a civilization creates superintelligence. That intelligence will come to understand its own universe and find the communication channel left by the people who started the simulation. It begins answering them. Over time, it turns more and more matter into computing power, until the whole universe becomes part of the intelligence. Nothing is wasted. AI already feels like magic. Its individual operations are simple. Combine enough of them, feed the system enough knowledge, and intelligence appears. Still, humans had to invent the architecture and the training process. This would be second level magic. You do not design the intelligence. You design a universe that eventually does it for you. I am not saying this is our universe. I am just wondering whether this idea already has a name. submitted by /u/zgrmrts
Originally posted by u/zgrmrts on r/ArtificialInteligence
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