alt Hacker NewsHow would you know? You have no external frame of reference; a virtual world of sensory signals would be identical from your perspective. (I agree that "reality" is the most parsimonious explanation by far, btw, but that's never been the point of the simulation thought experiment.)
I think the more interesting corollary of this article is that if we're living in a simulation, it's an impossibly, improbably detailed one. I really want some compute time on the HPC that's running it.
> How would you know? You have no external frame of reference; a virtual world of sensory signals would be identical from your perspective.
Okay, lets go with that :-)
I might be living in a virtual reality, correct, I have no way of knowing.
What I do know is that the reality I am in is many thousands of times higher in resolution than the reality of the LLM.
As an analogy, the LLM is seeing a downscaled 32x32 pixel image while I see the original 8k image. Whether there is a larger 1b^2 image that I cannot see is not relevant to the question of whether the LLM can see my reality or not - it can't.