[gloriousduke]

I've encountered an idea similar to this:

> The transcension hypothesis proposes that a universal process of evolutionary development guides all sufficiently advanced civilizations into what may be called "inner space," a computationally optimal domain of increasingly dense, productive, miniaturized, and efficient scales of space, time, energy, and matter, and eventually, to a black-hole-like destination.

https://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.htm...

[Joe-Z]

Would you mind dumbing that down for me?

As I understand it we'd be living inside a simulation. Isn't that what GP suggested?

[matthewwiese]

If I grokked the parent right, it's not that we are living in a simulation, but that the apex of development for a species is effectively becoming a simulation.

Now, whether that is an argument that life at present is itself a simulation is yet to be determined. However, I'd imagine given that ungodly level of computational power we'd have the wherewithal to construct a reality for ourselves far more compelling than this one. ;)