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@Peter Gerdes:

Agreed!

So the question becomes this:If the mediocrity principle is true then would the universe create more computationally limited sims or more computationally unlimited sims?

I think the evidence is in favor of more computationally limited sims but we don't have sims running on quantum computers yet so the answer is not in...

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Presumably by not having aliens one could run a simulation of life on one world with considerably less computational costs by simply using vague approximations to handle all the physics outside of a narrow region around the planet of interest.

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