Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.
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0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
xylol@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
perishthethought@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer…
frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That happened in Permutation City. The simulation could stop intermittently or go extremely slow and no one inside could notice.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn’t be able to tell.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’ve been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been… interesting so far.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You’re assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk checkpoints. What if we run out of disk space?
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then you start using floppy disks to write all the extraneous data! And swap in the relevant disk when needed!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that why we have two Enzos running around?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting is helping the framerate.
psoul@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
psoul@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
makyo@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
FOV: 0.1 Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Heat sink of the NVIDIA graphics card: And I took that personally
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That’s right. Asset culling.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Huh, weird, their mom said it was a drug overdose.
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And I thought my eyesight diminishes as I age. Turns out it’s reality itself that’s falling apart.
phx@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And figured out parallax a long time ago
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
It_Is1_24PM@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Have you ever seen those billions rendered at the same time & place? 😁 There is no need to render NPCs you can’t see…
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well it still needs to simulate some things of the NPCs you can’t see. Since those still affect things like weather, world economy, politics that will influence what the player character sees and interacts with.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.
exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Get wrekt David Hume, there is no God in the Quad
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s probably also why we all have to sleep at some point. The simulation alots each of us processes some computation time and pauses threads in a round-robin fashion, giving the illusion of true parallelism.
Don’t let the sim pause you! Take meth!!1!
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Like the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s what the simulation wants you to think.
Chakravanti@monero.town 3 weeks ago
That was calculated with less bits than you gave letters.
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
Juice@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
We love neo-geocentrism
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
DoS on the universe
Damaskox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
Tenkard@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
“Sorry for the inconvenience”
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
:( Something went wrong.
If you send this to a technician, include this error code: <Error>
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seeing Valve’s error.mdl would explain so much about this universe.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Care to elaborate? 😁
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am also amused
Yeller_king@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not very, I’m here
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don’t really need backups /s
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Slime chunk story checks out
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
It’s a race between GrayStillPlays and Let’sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I’m here for it.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to finally find an exploit for infinite entropy.
Chakravanti@monero.town 3 weeks ago
Mother’s womb. You’ve been here the whole time and think that you can calculate creativity. Without the Owl’s interest by betraying her love and attempting to take her ability to create and threaten to divide infinity with more math then Neo had any interest in trying to even observe.
You think you can create. The consequences of ignoring the love all of reality has shown you will soon do just all that. You cannot create yourself anymore than the that act will generate Zero. You think you have the ability to split something that isn’t there.
If you think of a spook that will happen immenantly, you should study meth. It’ll boost your ability to think about more stuff until the reaper will divide hour solce existance with nothing. It really is a good thing that everyone has them becau…
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Didn’t Spiffing Brit find a few infinite money glitches with Steam and/or YouTube?
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Yes, but he didn’t use them to crash entire sites.
Nelots@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Haven’t heard of Gray, but if they’re nothing like LetsGameItOut then I should really check them out.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I watch them both, LGIO is more about finding glitches and pushing a game to its limits. Grey is more about just not giving up and skill to do the impossible, both are fun.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
“Ruin the game!” Is one of Gray’s catchphrases.
Krono@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
(PDF and Audio)
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
At least it’s a testable hypothesis. That’s way farther than most pseudoscience does.
LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 3 weeks ago
They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
danekrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We do need a reboot…
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
jack@hexbear.net 3 weeks 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.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well, have you considered that perhaps that’s the point?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn’t know they got it from Douglas Adams.
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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