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[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 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.

[–] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks 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

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 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!

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