> “What happens,” Tyson said, “if there’s a bug that crashes the entire program?”
What if there's a bug in the simulation, and the whole computer goes up in flames- but then the experimenter restores from a backup, fixes the bug, and re-runs the simulation with the same random seed. Things proceed again exactly as before, and pass the bug-triggering point without incident. Do we notice anything happened?
What if there's a bug in the simulation, and the whole computer goes up in flames- but then the experimenter restores from a backup, fixes the bug, and re-runs the simulation with the same random seed. Things proceed again exactly as before, and pass the bug-triggering point without incident. Do we notice anything happened?