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.

Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.

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.

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.

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.

FOV: 0.1

Render Distance: 13b light years

CPU: 😵‍💫

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

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.

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.

I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.

DoS on the universe

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

Just download more ram Mr Simulator!

We love neo-geocentrism

Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago

I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.

The idea amuses me!

[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.

It's a race between GrayStillPlays and Let'sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I'm here for it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It also allows them to optimize in the background.

Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question

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

(PDF and Audio)

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

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.

We do need a reboot...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

"neilty son", aww cute name

good! we need to turn it off and then on again.

This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.

Which any sane Vulcan of course does.