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The jokes above that say that this was done by our simulators to save on computation are amusing but wrong. Quantum computation is famously harder than classical computation.


That's assuming that the simulation is running on classical computers. The simulation could be running on quantum computers or who-knows-what. Quantum computers might not be so inconvenient to build to make in the host world's physics.


unless you have a quantum computer then it's still hard but you can evaluate all states concurrently and trick them to collapse into the result




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