the universe about to have a little minty b

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.

There is so much to unpack here….

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.

Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question

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

(PDF and Audio)

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

It also allows them to optimize in the background.

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...

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.

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

Relax, they're just staring at the skybox.

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.

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

Imagine talking about simulation theory with that much certainty.

the universe disappears

Yeah? Is that how it works?

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

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.

Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago

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.

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

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

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

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.

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: 😵‍💫

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

The idea amuses me!

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.

We love neo-geocentrism

So the universe is a trans allegory?

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

good! we need to turn it off and then on again.

At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.

DoS on the universe

I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.

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.

The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.

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.

Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!

Just download more ram Mr Simulator!

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

We do need a reboot...

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

Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?

hopefully it's not running on Nvidia

BSOD vibes

“Who’s Neilty Son?”

Oh. Oooh, right.

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.

This is why the James Webb telescope was delayed

Long before they crash we will lag.

Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get a chance to escape.

This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.

Which any sane Vulcan of course does.

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Cursed to look into the great mysteries of existence with a mind high tuned for pattern recognition and projecting familiar narratives.

Is that something beyond our current understanding? No, no, it's just a familiar desktop environment. But fuck you if you project a name and a face into the unknown. That's backwards and primitive!

"neilty son", aww cute name

black holes and dark matter are the errors starting to pop up

What I can appreciate about this is that it requires other people to be just real as yourself in the simulation

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.

The part that makes me really laugh is that this mouth breather was replying to Hank Green. Like, Tyson is an overbearing know it all, so I can see people being into trying to "debate" him so that can use his arrogance to justify their dumb beliefs. But Green is a very ground level science communicator who can always bring these kinds of idiotic arguments down to earth and destroy them with plain logic.

potential states are affected by observation.

Nothing about running out of resources though.

You're gonna need a bigger gpu - Chief Brody