potential states are affected by observation.
Nothing about running out of resources though.
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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.
Slime chunk story checks out
DoS on the universe
What I can appreciate about this is that it requires other people to be just real as yourself in the simulation
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'm fairly certain that would be impossible to have all users logged off at the same time
Just pause time itself. There, everyone is sleeping.
As someone who seems to have a 36 hour circadian rhythm, my life would be dramatically better if I could pause time to sleep when needed, actually been a dream of mine for about 25 years
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I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer...
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
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This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.
Which any sane Vulcan of course does.
You're gonna need a bigger gpu - Chief Brody
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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."
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.
If your data is in memory only, crashing will revert to the latest save, which could be forever ago.
But you wouldn’t know right?
Nope
It could have happened a dozen times already.
That's why you walked into the room and forgot why you came in there.
That would require data to be saved.
If any such thing happened, it would be seemless.
Seamless*
I've had a rough week :(
FOV: 0.1
Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
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.
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!
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We do need a reboot...
This is why the James Webb telescope was delayed
Long before they crash we will lag.
Things already lag if it's moving near the max speed supported by the engine or near an object that requires a lot of calculations.
Of course. But since we are inside the simulation how would we know. Unless some systems lag more than others.
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There is something inherent about spending too much time with computers that warps people's brains into compulsively perceiving everything around them in digital logic.
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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.
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Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.
And it would certainly help explain the state of the world, if the simulation had to divert more and more power to quantum physics and cosmological math, no cpu left for, you know, "people" to be intelligent..
Mfw we realize we live in a Rick and Morty episode...
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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
The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.
You joke, but the James Webb DLC is tripping everyone up.
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.
Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get out chance to escape.
That's only if you're a person from outside that was put into the simulation. If we're all just simulated beings we'd never know.
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