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.
Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn't know they got it from Douglas Adams.
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer...
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.
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.
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.
FOV: 0.1
Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
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.
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!
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....
DoS on the universe
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
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
We love neo-geocentrism
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.
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.
Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
(PDF and Audio)
At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.
I'm currently running Timberborn on a potato. The NPCs don't perceive their world's lag: they are part of the world.
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...
They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks.
It also allows them to optimize in the background.
We do need a reboot...
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.
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.
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.
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
They implemented ray tracing everywhere without DLSS so they should already have powerful servers
I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.
good! we need to turn it off and then on again.
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
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.
This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.
Which any sane Vulcan of course does.
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