Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
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There is so much to unpack here….
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…
False. Time dilation is already implemented and likely proportional to exceeding processing ability. At worst we’ll tick so slow that every moment is eternity.
That’s silly. As our tech evolves so does the Simulation’s. So we’ll never crash it.
Nah, they got the pay as you go model. No way they end the sim, they have to see the end.
Ah fuck they’ve figured it out
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.
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.
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.
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
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.
Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting and postprocessing is helping the framerate.
In that hypothetical, it’s not like anybody would notice.
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.
You’re assuming RAM is the limitation, with disk swapping. What if we run out of disk space?
We’ve been crashing this shit since 2012 and the results have been… interesting so far.
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.
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.
