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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.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Ah fuck they've figured it out

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

speaking through the fractal of conciousness given to me by what we refer to as "god" or the universal conciousness, for a brief second.

yall need to stop, just enjoy eating fresh fruit and chill the fuck out. maybe go fishing or something. also war is fake n'd gei. trump is on the epstein files (shocker, i know) and all of your politicians are merely a buffer for the ruling elite class, the ones you refer to as oligarchs, corporate leaders, tech bros, etc. id like to say you could handle this with words, but nope. they are mentally ill psychopathic pedophiles, rapists, and mass murderers, and the only cure for entrenched corruption like this is death. kill them, or they will eventually kill all life on earth.

on the bright side, the current living generations are the last ones who will be able to enjoy the literal fruits of the world that dont come from a can, or are made in a lab. the actual last living generation will be doing a lot of cannibalism and fighting for the shadows of what you currently consider rights and privileges, all for naught.

unless you buck up, and start killing them. this is your future.

fun to watch/experience either way, for me at least. god/universal conciousness......out!

huh...... that was weird...... i suddenly have a great and overwhelming feeling of grief, terror, and anger.

ill just go play some video games and jerk off. that usually gets my mind off of things...

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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 7 points 9 hours ago

Not very, I'm here

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

It's proven by scientists that information is never lost so you don't really need backups /s

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 hours ago

Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question

https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/

(PDF and Audio)

[–] LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks.

It also allows them to optimize in the background.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

Also supported by a lot of resource friendly NPC without extra brainactivity.

[–] LemmyBeMyself@lemmybefree.net 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They implemented ray tracing everywhere without DLSS so they should already have powerful servers

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Imagine talking about simulation theory with that much certainty.

the universe disappears

Yeah? Is that how it works?

[–] Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Imagine, instead, a joke. Cause that's what's going on here. There's no chance that this guy is serious and seriously thinks he knows the particulars of how a universal simulation is being implemented.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Nah, they got the pay as you go model. No way they end the sim, they have to see the end.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

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 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to finally find an exploit for infinite entropy.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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 solace existance with nothing. It really is a good thing that everyone has them becau...

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't Spiffing Brit find a few infinite money glitches with Steam and/or YouTube?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 8 minutes ago

Yes, but he didn't use them to crash entire sites.

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours 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 points 15 hours ago

"Ruin the game!" Is one of Gray's catchphrases.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

I'm here for it. Let's speed run the next cosmic reboot.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

That’s what the simulation wants you to think.

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[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 18 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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

Get wrekt David Hume, there is no God in the Quad

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours 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!

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 205 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So the universe is a trans allegory?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

I know that The Matrix is a trans allegory but simulation theory isn't necessarily the same as being imprisoned in a simulation. It means we might not exist at all. Simulation goes away, we go away. Or maybe it's like The Matrix and we're all trans eggs. There's no way to know which version it is or how many people are real vs simulated.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We live in The Matrix. The Matrix is a trans allegory.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Simulation theory doesn't equal The Matrix.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I was just explaining what they were saying because you expressed confusion.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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 1 points 8 hours ago

And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

And starlink satellites. So much of the sky is obstructed, wonder why.

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.

[–] match@pawb.social 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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