Physicists working with Microsoft think the universe is a self-learning computer

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By Tristan GreeneApr 9, 2021, 4:20 pm153 pts
A team of theoretical physicists working with Microsoft today published an amazing pre-print research paper describing the universe as a self-learning system of evolutionary laws. In other words: We live inside a computer that learns. The big idea: Bostrom’s Simulation Argument has been a hot topic in science…

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