It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
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You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That's right. Asset culling.
Huh, weird, their mom said it was a drug overdose.
And figured out parallax a long time ago
And I thought my eyesight diminishes as I age. Turns out it's reality itself that's falling apart.
No we just get rebooted, in which case the side effects are Mandela effects and those points in history where we are all aware something definitely changed or glitched out overnight.
We love neo-geocentrism
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.
Have you ever seen those billions rendered at the same time & place? 😁 There is no need to render NPCs you can't see....
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The part that makes me really laugh is that this mouth breather was replying to Hank Green. Like, Tyson is an overbearing know it all, so I can see people being into trying to "debate" him so that can use his arrogance to justify their dumb beliefs. But Green is a very ground level science communicator who can always bring these kinds of idiotic arguments down to earth and destroy them with plain logic.
I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
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I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.
Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?
It's been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.
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
The universe spontaneously popped into exitence in the current state it's in when you're reading this, the only things that exist are what's in your line of sight, all the memories are made up, and it'll shortly pop back out of existence only to return a few billion years or femtoseconds later with a new line of sight and memories, along with something to let you know what's really happening but with enough plausible deniability that you'll laugh and try to move on before popping back out of existence.
This is your eternal punishment for something you can't even remember, or can't verify even if you do remember.
How would you even know this? you might wonder with a hint of uncertain dread, but the truth is I don't know anything because I don't even exist. It's all you: punisher, punishee, neutral observer, entertained by this meaningless repetition that bored you out of your mind lol.
Or shall we let this one play out a bit longer?
black holes and dark matter are the errors starting to pop up
There's a short story (more of a novella) by Stephen Baxter on this exact topic, for what it's worth. Touching Centauri: https://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/1035265/30/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html
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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.
Oh you think you exist somehow outside the simulation and are not just a construct of it. The Truman of the show.
BSOD vibes
good! we need to turn it off and then on again.
In that hypothetical, it's not like anybody would notice.
I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.
It's a race between GrayStillPlays and Let'sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I'm here for it.
Haven't heard of Gray, but if they're ~~nothing~~ anything (thank you auto correct for making me say the opposite of what I meant) like LetsGameItOut then I should really check them out.
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Cursed to look into the great mysteries of existence with a mind high tuned for pattern recognition and projecting familiar narratives.
Is that something beyond our current understanding? No, no, it's just a familiar desktop environment. But fuck you if you project a name and a face into the unknown. That's backwards and primitive!