Local Simulations

How AI Got Ahead of Reality

The possibility that the universe is a simulation is no longer a fringe idea.

Quantum physics shows that some quantities (like energy levels) come in discrete (small) chunks. So, this may be exaggerated in a way such as:

Discrete = Digital = Simulated.

Here we present a different argument.

AI does not need to simulate everything to change reality. It only needs to simulate the part where decisions happen. And that part is now almost fully covered.

Every day, AI predicts outcomes before they exist. Who gets hired. Which routes get taken. What content spreads. Which risks matter. Even how systems in physics and biology are explored.

People no longer wait for the world to respond.
They act inside the prediction.

This is not about fake universes or hidden machines running reality. It is something much closer and harder to see.

We are building small, local simulations inside a real world, then organizing our lives around them.

And once decisions begin inside simulations instead of experience, the meaning of what is real starts to quietly change.