Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!

Just download more ram Mr Simulator!

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.

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.

At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.

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.

DoS on the universe

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

I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.

The simulation is intentionally choosing the most convoluted and incomprehensible content possible in order to try and stop us.

Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?

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.

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.

[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.

We do need a reboot...

There's a short story (more of a novella) by Stephen Baxter on this exact topic, for what it's worth. Touching Centauri: https://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/1035265/30/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html

I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent

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.