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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.
This is the second post in a row where I see Douglas Adams referenced.
Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”
Lmao I remember this quote from Futurama S4E8 Godfellas. I didn’t know they got it from Douglas Adams.
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.
Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
(PDF and Audio)
I’m here for it. Let’s speed run the next cosmic reboot.
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.
Not very, I’m here
It’s proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don’t really need backups /s
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting and postprocessing is helping the framerate.
And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.
This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström’s Simulation Argument.
Which any sane Vulcan of course does.
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
[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.
Slime chunk story checks out
DoS on the universe
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.
this mf out here thinking God is gonna pay for 4k textures on everything, even the skybox!
Damn, I forgot how tapped out he was after all those priest SA lawsuits. That’s on me.
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.
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
That happens nightly unless a user is still running which causes the next day to run all slow and laggy
That’s a pivotal plot point of Dark City
I remember watching that in highschool, probably influenced me than I know
Same. I watched it all the time
Back in the 90s and early 00s when I was in HS and college, going to the video store and finding gems like this and watching them at midnight so I could return the tape the next day made movie watching much more of an adventure. I enjoy my streaming services, but might suffer a bit from too much choice. The closest I get now is when I watch some movie I never heard of because it is on Netflix’s removal list.
I’m fairly certain that would be impossible to have all users logged off at the same time
No need, you just allocate users to servers depending on theie average sleep/wake cycle nd bounce the servers one at a time, when usage is at a minimum. Ever had one if those late night brain’s gone blank moments? Now you know.
Are you trying to deport me???
Believe it or not…straight to jail.
I’ve just spotted your username, I feel sure one of your relations had some sort of run in with the sysops already, and now you’re trying to convince people that there can’t be server reboots? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
I swear to Oracle that if you make my mouth disappear I will put you on a bus with a speed sensitive explosive
Just pause time itself. There, everyone is sleeping.
As someone who seems to have a 36 hour circadian rhythm, my life would be dramatically better if I could pause time to sleep when needed, actually been a dream of mine for about 25 years
I can already feel the GPU getting warmer and warmer…
That happened in Permutation City. The simulation could stop intermittently or go extremely slow and no one inside could notice.
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
