Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.
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0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
xylol@leminal.space 3 days ago
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
perishthethought@piefed.social 3 days ago
Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 3 days ago
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer…
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That happened in Permutation City. The simulation could stop intermittently or go extremely slow and no one inside could notice.
frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn’t be able to tell.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We’ve been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been… interesting so far.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
You’re assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk checkpoints. What if we run out of disk space?
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Then you start using floppy disks to write all the extraneous data! And swap in the relevant disk when needed!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is that why we have two Enzos running around?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting is helping the framerate.
psoul@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
psoul@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
makyo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
FOV: 0.1 Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Heat sink of the NVIDIA graphics card: And I took that personally
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
match@pawb.social 3 days ago
You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That’s right. Asset culling.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 days ago
Huh, weird, their mom said it was a drug overdose.
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
And I thought my eyesight diminishes as I age. Turns out it’s reality itself that’s falling apart.
phx@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
And figured out parallax a long time ago
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
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!
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
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 3 days ago
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
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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?
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Get wrekt David Hume, there is no God in the Quad
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days 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!
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
It_Is1_24PM@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Have you ever seen those billions rendered at the same time & place? 😁 There is no need to render NPCs you can’t see…
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com 2 days ago
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.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not very, I’m here
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don’t really need backups /s
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
(PDF and Audio)
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
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.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Like the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That’s what the simulation wants you to think.
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 days ago
That was calculated with less bits than you gave letters.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
It’s a race between GrayStillPlays and Let’sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I’m here for it.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to finally find an exploit for infinite entropy.
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 days ago
Mother’s womb. You’ve been here the whole time and think that you can calculate creativity. Without the Owl’s interest by betraying her love and attempting to take her ability to create and threaten to divide infinity with more math then Neo had any interest in trying to even observe.
You think you can create. The consequences of ignoring the love all of reality has shown you will soon do just all that. You cannot create yourself anymore than the that act will generate Zero. You think you have the ability to split something that isn’t there.
If you think of a spook that will happen immenantly, you should study meth. It’ll boost your ability to think about more stuff until the reaper will divide hour solce existance with nothing. It really is a good thing that everyone has them becau…
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t Spiffing Brit find a few infinite money glitches with Steam and/or YouTube?
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
Yes, but he didn’t use them to crash entire sites.
Nelots@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Haven’t heard of Gray, but if they’re nothing like LetsGameItOut then I should really check them out.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I watch them both, LGIO is more about finding glitches and pushing a game to its limits. Grey is more about just not giving up and skill to do the impossible, both are fun.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
“Ruin the game!” Is one of Gray’s catchphrases.
LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 2 days ago
They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Also supported by a lot of resource friendly NPC without extra brainactivity.
Juice@midwest.social 3 days ago
We love neo-geocentrism
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
Damaskox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
Tenkard@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
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
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 days ago
“Sorry for the inconvenience”
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 days ago
:( Something went wrong.
If you send this to a technician, include this error code: <Error>
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Seeing Valve’s error.mdl would explain so much about this universe.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I am also amused
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
DoS on the universe
Krono@lemmy.today 3 days ago
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
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
At least it’s a testable hypothesis. That’s way farther than most pseudoscience does.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
[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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
At some point you just gotta realise you won’t support 2+k consumer graphics & just let it render at less details.
Who is gonna know? Yes, boobs have always been triangles.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 2 days ago
They implemented ray tracing everywhere so they should already have powerful servers
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
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.
danekrae@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We do need a reboot…
jack@hexbear.net 3 days ago
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.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Well, have you considered that perhaps that’s the point?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn’t know they got it from Douglas Adams.
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
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