Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
To me, one of the more interesting arguments against the universe as a simulation came from Sean Carroll. I'm paraphrasing, but he noted that any simulation would be limited and it's possible detail, because it has to use the resources of the real world, and therefore is likely to be less detailed than the real world. And the logic of simulated universes is that they, too, have simulated universes, and you keep on going, and you end up with much greater probability that you're in one of the simulations then that you're in reality.<p>But, it would also follow, that the version of reality that you experience is not very rich in detail relative to whatever is "real."<p>The author, John, says that blindness to detail can make you "intellectually stuck." So I would wonder if an implication of Sean Carroll's argument, an implication of the universe as a simulation, is that we would experience less detail and therefore be more prone to getting "stuck".