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.
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.”
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn’t know they got it from Douglas Adams.
jack@hexbear.net 54 minutes ago
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.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 minutes ago
Makes sense they appeal to similar groups and both provide comfort of an unfalsifiable metaphysics instead of having to deal with the discomfort of the unknown and not knowing.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
At some point you just gotta realise you won’t support 2+k consumer graphics & just let it render at less details.
Who is gonna know? Yes, boobs have always been triangles.
Asafum@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
Krono@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
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
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You joke, but the James Webb DLC is tripping everyone up.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.
Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer…
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
xylol@leminal.space 4 hours ago
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
perishthethought@piefed.social 4 hours ago
frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
At least it’s a testable hypothesis. That’s way farther than most pseudoscience does.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
I’m currently running Timberborn on a potato. The NPCs don’t perceive their world’s lag: they are part of the world.
match@pawb.social 1 minute ago
Hey, didn’t you used to have more polygons…
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
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…
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn’t be able to tell.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
You’re assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk checkpoints. What if we run out of disk space?
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
Then you start using floppy disks to write all the extraneous data! And swap in the relevant disk when needed!
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
We’ve been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been… interesting so far.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Is that why we have two Enzos running around?
makyo@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
FOV: 0.1 Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Heat sink of the NVIDIA graphics card: And I took that personally
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
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.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Many of the allegories from the likes of Descartes and Aristotle use the concept of the mind being manipulated by demons - a common trope of their times - but the concepts being explored were the same as people talking about being a character in a book, or a brain in a jar, or a computer simulation; they’re just using the prevailing ideas of their time to communicate ideas to their contemporaries.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
It’s been much the same for every big technology that’s come along.
TV, radio, electricity, boats, all led to people using the technology of the age to interpret the world.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
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!
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
I think “observers” are not people but macro systems of particles. Rendering only happens when macro systems require it, for example when ‘observing’ or when a chemical reaction is happening.
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Who’s Neilty Son?
- Me
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Son of Neil Ty, duh.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.
danekrae@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
We do need a reboot…
7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 hours ago
I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
DoS on the universe
VibeCoder@hexbear.net 3 hours ago
It’s okay as long as Moore’s Law holds, they can just keep waiting for better computer to compensate
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
[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.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Slime chunk story checks out
logicbomb@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
If your data is in memory only, crashing will revert to the latest save, which could be forever ago.
culpritus@hexbear.net 4 hours ago
Imagine thinking the Truman Show is an example of cosmological theory crafting.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
If that were true, and it was just a simple large telescope using lenses, would anything have to actually be rendered or would simple 2D images displayed in the telescope results suffice? Also assumes no pre-rendering.
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 2 hours ago
this mf out here thinking God is gonna pay for 4k textures on everything, even the skybox!
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Assuming there’s no one else in that part of the universe looking at it from closer up, you could probably play around with fudging some super-duper low-resolution (compared to being there) LoDs on that part of the sky to make it look and behave good enough.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
neilty son, aww cute name
esc27@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is why the James Webb telescope was delayed
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Crypto bros stealing all three consumer GPUs :‘’(
MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Long before they crash we will lag.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 hour ago
Things already lags if it’s moving near the max speed supported by the engine.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Of course. But since we are inside the simulation how would we know. Unless some systems lag more than others.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 6 hours ago
Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get out chance to escape.
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
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.
timeghost@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My man!
bran_buckler@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
We would need Moriarty to help get us out!
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
It’s all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
match@pawb.social 2 minutes ago
You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That’s right. Asset culling.