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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.
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.
Oh you think you exist somehow outside the simulation and are not just a construct of it. The Truman of the show.
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!
FOV: 0.1
Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
Heat sink of the NVIDIA graphics card: And I took that personally
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 use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.
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.
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...
Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?
It's been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.
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.
You joke, but the James Webb DLC is tripping everyone up.
DoS on the universe
BSOD vibes
In that hypothetical, it's not like anybody would notice.
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
[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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We do need a reboot...
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.
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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