Well, have you considered that perhaps that’s the point?
In the beginning was the Creation of the Universe. This has made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
Time was when you would be in a forum and think "This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams."
isn't there a hard limit on what even a perfect telescope (photon receptor of some kind) can see, based on the speed of light? it's fuckin huge like 900 billion light years or something, but the universe is probably bigger than we could ever actually measure.
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.
We wouldn't even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer...
I'd imagine they save the state intermittently and can boot it back up if needed. Depends on how valuable this sim is I guess.
Not very, I'm here
It's proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don't really need backups /s
The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn't be able to tell.
Heck, we might have crashed the simulation multiple times already with crazy experiments and they had to load a backup.
We've been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been... interesting so far.
Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
(PDF and Audio)
Don't worry, light pollution from cities cancels it out. The simulation used to need to render a detailed night sky for pretty much everyone on the planet. Now most people just get a dull greyish black.
They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks.
It also allows them to optimize in the background.
Also supported by a lot of resource friendly NPC without extra brainactivity.
It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That's right. Asset culling.
It's a race between GrayStillPlays and Let'sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I'm here for it.
I'm waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to finally find an exploit for infinite entropy.
I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.
That's why there's quant mechanics. The simulation can always invent invent thinga on the fly to reduce computational load. It's like lazy execution when soneone's looking i.e. me - let's not kid ourselves: the simulation is only simulating my surroundings - of which all af you are part of. Yadda yadda, there's only me.
On another note: the simulation can also always rewritebparts of my brain and retroactively change stuff in my memory making me believe different things. So i could also be reprogrammed to believe I saw this or that insteas of
Nah we’re fine, it doesn’t use processing power until we observe it. Maybe if we set up a bunch of observation posts and intentionally tried to DDOS reality, but I’m sure it has enough resources for our puny science.
Yeah because rendering a blurry image of a star is so difficult compared to simulating physics for billions of beings and plants down to the atom.
I mean, planck length & planck time are probably the resolution our simulation runs at. And collapsing superposition? Obviously just the "LoD" system only rendering what's relevant to the users/creators and wasting no resources on unused assets.
That suggests we can change the superposition collapse distance by changing how much were observing. By measuring the proportion of change as we turn on or off large-scale observation systems, we can calculate how much of the universe is being loaded by other users. We can finally start solving the drake equation!
They implemented ray tracing everywhere without DLSS so they should already have powerful servers
We love neo-geocentrism
I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
I remember playing starfield and a planet preview got corrupted, so the planet was full of "you shouldn't be seeing this" textures
Something like this
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
There is so much to unpack here….
I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.
DoS on the universe
At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.
[to be read in a snobby British accent]
Dear Gentle or Ladyman
It appears that you might have some trouble understanding the fundamental concepts of "the universe". See, in order for us to, let’s say, "know“ what is out there, we first have to observe it. Or rather, explain why a certain thing is the way it is.
You see, we already are affected by the working is these said far away galaxies and celestial bodies. Which means that this is like a slime farm in the spawn chunks. While we do not see it, the farm continuously runs.
At some point you just gotta realise you won't support 2+k consumer graphics & simply let it render at less details.
Who is gonna know? Yes, boobs have always been triangles.
I like how she tags Neil DeGrasse Tyson as if the funny haha tv scientist podcast man is out there writing budget proposals for CERN or Fermilab
I would fucking love to see the walls around me come crashing down with a matrix effect.
It'd be a sigh of relief. A deep one.
Do universal simulationists believe in an anthropocentric simulation? They really gotta go all the way to reinventing a personal god who cultivates all of creation around human experience while remaining invisible and omniscient, but this time it's a robot they're inside of.
How many billions of people have we got? It seems like the universe is very good at scaling.
And even if it crashes, why would that mean it disappears? If your computer crashes, does it typically stop working forever, or can you fix it?
For all we know, maybe it already crashes a lot and there is just no way for us to know about it.
Imagine talking about simulation theory with that much certainty.
the universe disappears
Yeah? Is that how it works?
Imagine, instead, a joke. Cause that's what's going on here. There's no chance that this guy is serious and seriously thinks he knows the particulars of how a universal simulation is being implemented.
It doesn't read at all like a joke.
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