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.
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It's proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don't really need backups /s
Nah, they got the pay as you go model. No way they end the sim, they have to see the end.
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.
Imagine talking about simulation theory with that much certainty.
the universe disappears
Yeah? Is that how it works?
They implemented ray tracing everywhere without DLSS so they should already have powerful servers
So the universe is a trans allegory?
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 ~~nothing~~ anything (thank you auto correct for making me say the opposite of what I meant) like LetsGameItOut then I should really check them out.
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.
"Ruin the game!" Is one of Gray's catchphrases.
I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.
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!
Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago
That’s what the simulation wants you to think.
I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.
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
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!
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?
good! we need to turn it off and then on again.
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.
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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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.
Have you ever seen those billions rendered at the same time & place? 😁 There is no need to render NPCs you can't see....
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.
Yeah but all of that can be abstracted. Instead of simulating down to the atom, if e.g. a plant is out of FOV, you can just run a probability table for its properties and functions. Things like alive or dead, quantity of co2 and water consumed, o2 produced etc.
It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
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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I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
"We apologize for the inconvenience"
:( Something went wrong.
If you send this to a technician, include this error code:
Seeing Valve's error.mdl would explain so much about this universe.
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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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.
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
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We love neo-geocentrism
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.
That happened in Permutation City. The simulation could stop intermittently or go extremely slow and no one inside could notice.
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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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BSOD vibes
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