Super Mario World Hacks & Quantum Physics
Feb. 9Okay. First, watch this video, which is by itself an impressive vid of a run through the first level of the famous Kaizo Mario World hack. It introduces some new tools for recording all of the attempts that go into the creation of a tool-assisted speedrun and having them play out simultaneously.
It's when you get into the creator's discussion of quantum physics that things get kind of freaky.
At each moment of the playthrough theres a lot of different things Mario could have done, and almost all of them lead to horrible death. The anthropic principle, in the form of the emulators save/restore feature, postselects for the possibilities where Mario actually survives and ensures that although a lot of possible paths have to get discarded, the camera remains fixed on the one path where after one minute and fifty-six seconds some observer still exists.
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