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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

There is so much to unpack here….

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Not very, I'm here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don't really need backups /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question

https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/

(PDF and Audio)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Relax, they're just staring at the skybox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

False. Time dilation is already implemented and likely proportional to exceeding processing ability. At worst we'll tick so slow that every moment is eternity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks.

It also allows them to optimize in the background.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Also supported by a lot of resource friendly NPC without extra brainactivity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

That's silly. As our tech evolves so does the Simulation's. So we'll never crash it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They implemented ray tracing everywhere without DLSS so they should already have powerful servers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

speaking through the fractal of conciousness given to me by what we refer to as "god" or the universal conciousness, for a brief second.

yall need to stop, just enjoy eating fresh fruit and chill the fuck out. maybe go fishing or something. also war is fake n'd gei. trump is on the epstein files (shocker, i know) and all of your politicians are merely a buffer for the ruling elite class, the ones you refer to as oligarchs, corporate leaders, tech bros, etc. id like to say you could handle this with words, but nope. they are mentally ill psychopathic pedophiles, rapists, and mass murderers, and the only cure for entrenched corruption like this is death. kill them, or they will eventually kill all life on earth.

on the bright side, the current living generations are the last ones who will be able to enjoy the literal fruits of the world that dont come from a can, or are made in a lab. the actual last living generation will be doing a lot of cannibalism and fighting for the shadows of what you currently consider rights and privileges, all for naught.

unless you buck up, and start killing them. this is your future.

fun to watch/experience either way, for me at least. god/universal conciousness......out!

huh...... that was weird...... i suddenly have a great and overwhelming feeling of grief, terror, and anger.

ill just go play some video games and jerk off. that usually gets my mind off of things...

[–] [email protected] 210 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago

Time was when you would be in a forum and think "This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's a race between GrayStillPlays and Let'sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I'm here for it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to finally find an exploit for infinite entropy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Imagine talking about simulation theory with that much certainty.

the universe disappears

Yeah? Is that how it works?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It doesn't read at all like a joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nah, they got the pay as you go model. No way they end the sim, they have to see the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Ah fuck they've figured it out

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago

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[–] 0x0 84 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Get wrekt David Hume, there is no God in the Quad

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That's right. Asset culling.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

FOV: 0.1

Render Distance: 13b light years

CPU: 😵‍💫

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.

The idea amuses me!

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