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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buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
jack@hexbear.net 10 months 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.
NuraShiny@hexbear.net 10 months ago
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.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Makes sense they appeal to similar groups and both provide comfort of an unfalsifiable metaphysics instead of having to deal with the discomfort of the unknown and not knowing.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
And I thought my eyesight diminishes as I age. Turns out it’s reality itself that’s falling apart.
phx@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
And figured out parallax a long time ago
match@pawb.social 10 months 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 10 months ago
Huh, weird, their mom said it was a drug overdose.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 months 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.
Krono@lemmy.today 10 months 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
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Who’s Neilty Son?
- Me
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Son of Neil Ty, duh.
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You joke, but the James Webb DLC is tripping everyone up.
Asafum@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
At least it’s a testable hypothesis. That’s way farther than most pseudoscience does.
rmuk@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I’m currently running Timberborn on a potato. The NPCs don’t perceive their world’s lag: they are part of the world.
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
Hey, didn’t you used to have more polygons…
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
psoul@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
psoul@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting is helping the framerate.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 10 months ago
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.
VibeCoder@hexbear.net 10 months ago
It’s okay as long as Moore’s Law holds, they can just keep waiting for better computer to compensate
7bicycles@hexbear.net 10 months ago
I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent
culpritus@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Imagine thinking the Truman Show is an example of cosmological theory crafting.
danekrae@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We do need a reboot…
esc27@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is why the James Webb telescope was delayed
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Crypto bros stealing all three consumer GPUs :‘’(
MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Long before they crash we will lag.
Sabata11792@ani.social 10 months ago
Things already lags if it’s moving near the max speed supported by the engine.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Of course. But since we are inside the simulation how would we know. Unless some systems lag more than others.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
FOV: 0.1 Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Heat sink of the NVIDIA graphics card: And I took that personally
_stranger_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
makyo@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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!
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn’t be able to tell.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
You’re assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk checkpoints. What if we run out of disk space?
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Then you start using floppy disks to write all the extraneous data! And swap in the relevant disk when needed!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that why we have two Enzos running around?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We’ve been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been… interesting so far.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn’t know they got it from Douglas Adams.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 10 months 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.”
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
potential states are affected by observation.
Nothing about running out of resources though.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
neilty son, aww cute name
logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
If your data is in memory only, crashing will revert to the latest save, which could be forever ago.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What I can appreciate about this is that it requires other people to be just real as yourself in the simulation
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That happened in Permutation City. The simulation could stop intermittently or go extremely slow and no one inside could notice.
Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 10 months ago
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer…
frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
xylol@leminal.space 10 months ago
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
perishthethought@piefed.social 10 months ago
expatriado@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You’re gonna need a bigger gpu - Chief Brody
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.