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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This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
Time was when you would be in a forum and think "This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams."
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.
We wouldn't even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
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I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer...
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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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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.
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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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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
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?
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DoS on the universe
[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.
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I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
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We love neo-geocentrism
It's a race between GrayStillPlays and Let'sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I'm here for it.
I'm waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to finally find an exploit for infinite entropy.
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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.
Not very, I'm here
It's proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don't really need backups /s
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.
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.
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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...
The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.
You joke, but the James Webb DLC is tripping everyone up.
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.
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.
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
good! we need to turn it off and then on again.
They implemented ray tracing everywhere without DLSS so they should already have powerful servers
I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.
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.
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I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.
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
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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
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