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Where did this idea that our Universe is a computer simulation come from?

And if you use Occam's razor, it's more rational to believe that we don't actually live in a simulated reality, I think the Real life section could say this instead of "it wouldn't make a difference if we lived in one", to sound less weird.

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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Excised from Real Life:

• It should be noted that, returning to a Quantum Mechanical train of thought, the universe being finite may not make it able to be perfectly simulated. In fact, even if we had knowledge as perfect as QM allows, it would be a mere fraction of a second before the universe would become unable to be predicted again.

...because I'm pretty sure this is wrong. The information available to us within the universe doesn't give any particular indication of how much information about our universe is available to the simulators. All of quantum mechanics could be a quirk of our reality designed into the system and powered by their computers, for all we can tell from this perspective.