the universe about to have a little minty b
the universe about to have a little minty b
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I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.
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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!
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Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago
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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.
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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
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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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good! we need to turn it off and then on again.
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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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Oh you think you exist somehow outside the simulation and are not just a construct of it. The Truman of the show.
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It's nothing special. It's blue.
Now excuse me, I'm off to imbibe vast quantities of alcohol.
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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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Have you ever seen those billions rendered at the same time & place? 😁 There is no need to render NPCs you can't see....
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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.
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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 apologize for the inconvenience"
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:( Something went wrong.
If you send this to a technician, include this error code:
<Error>
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Seeing Valve's error.mdl would explain so much about this universe.
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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
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I am also amused
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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.
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Time was when you would be in a forum and think "This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams."
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Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn't know they got it from Douglas Adams.
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It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
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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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Huh, weird, their mom said it was a drug overdose.
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And I thought my eyesight diminishes as I age. Turns out it's reality itself that's falling apart.
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And figured out parallax a long time ago
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We love neo-geocentrism
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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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Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting and postprocessing is helping the framerate.
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BSOD vibes
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Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?
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It's been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.
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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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Also this short comic: Bad Space: Cataract.
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I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.
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Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.
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That happened in Permutation City. The simulation could stop intermittently or go extremely slow and no one inside could notice.
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I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer...
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Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
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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.
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We've been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been... interesting so far.
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You're assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk swapping. What if we run out of disk space?
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Then you start using floppy disks to write all the extraneous data! And swap in the relevant disk when needed!
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Is that why we have two Enzos running around?
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Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
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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.
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When your all mighty creator is an alien grad student with a spare raspberri Pi to run a 3d universe sim on for extra credit.
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Makes sense they appeal to similar groups and both provide naive comfort of an unfalsifiable metaphysics instead of having to deal with the discomfort of the unknown and not knowing.
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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.
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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.
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FOV: 0.1
Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
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Heat sink of the NVIDIA graphics card: And I took that personally
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hopefully it's not running on Nvidia
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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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At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.
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You joke, but the James Webb DLC is tripping everyone up.
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black holes and dark matter are the errors starting to pop up
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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.
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Many of the allegories from the likes of Descartes and Aristotle use the concept of the mind being manipulated by demons - a common trope of their times - but the concepts being explored were the same as people talking about being a character in a book, or a brain in a jar, or a computer simulation; they're just using the prevailing ideas of their time to communicate ideas to their contemporaries.
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Idk, I feel like allegorical communication is a bit different than someone believing that building a telescope is going to destroy the universe because it takes up too much ram.
I mean there are literal cults out there murdering people because they think AI is going to punish people who dont help AI take over the world.
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It's been much the same for every big technology that's come along.
TV, radio, electricity, boats, all led to people using the technology of the age to interpret the world.
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In that hypothetical, it's not like anybody would notice.
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I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent
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We do need a reboot...
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DoS on the universe
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[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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Slime chunk story checks out
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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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“Who’s Neilty Son?”
Oh. Oooh, right.
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Son of Neil Ty, duh.
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It’s okay as long as Moore’s Law holds, they can just keep waiting for better computer to compensate
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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.
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this mf out here thinking God is gonna pay for 4k textures on everything, even the skybox!
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Assuming there's no one else in that part of the universe looking at it from closer up, you could probably play around with fudging some super-duper low-resolution (compared to being there) LoDs on that part of the sky to make it look and behave good enough.
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Imagine thinking the Truman Show is an example of cosmological theory crafting.
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No we just get rebooted, in which case the side effects are Mandela effects and those points in history where we are all aware something definitely changed or glitched out overnight.
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"neilty son", aww cute name
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This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.
Which any sane Vulcan of course does.
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This is why the James Webb telescope was delayed
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Crypto bros stealing all the consumer GPUs :''(
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Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get a chance to escape.
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Peace among worlds!
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That's only if you're a person from outside that was put into the simulation. If we're all just simulated beings we'd never know.
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My man!
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We would need Moriarty to help get us out!
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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.
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What I can appreciate about this is that it requires other people to be just real as yourself in the simulation
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potential states are affected by observation.
Nothing about running out of resources though.
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You're gonna need a bigger gpu - Chief Brody
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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.
Didn't Spiffing Brit find a few infinite money glitches with Steam and/or YouTube?
Haven't heard of Gray, but if they're
nothinganything (thank you auto correct for making me say the opposite of what I meant) like LetsGameItOut then I should really check them out."Ruin the game!" Is one of Gray's catchphrases.