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Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago
I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.
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
The universe spontaneously popped into exitence in the current state it’s in when you’re reading this, the only things that exist are what’s in your line of sight, all the memories are made up, and it’ll shortly pop back out of existence only to return a few billion years or femtoseconds later with a new line of sight and memories, along with something to let you know what’s really happening but with enough plausible deniability that you’ll laugh and try to move on before popping back out of existence.
This is your eternal punishment for something you can’t even remember, or can’t verify even if you do remember.
How would you even know this? you might wonder with a hint of uncertain dread, but the truth is I don’t know anything because I don’t even exist. It’s all you: punisher, punishee, neutral observer, entertained by this meaningless repetition that bored you out of your mind lol.
Or shall we let this one play out a bit longer?
good! we need to turn it off and then on again.
BSOD vibes
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.
Oh you think you exist somehow outside the simulation and are not just a construct of it. The Truman of the show.
It’s nothing special. It’s blue.
Now excuse me, I’m off to imbibe vast quantities of alcohol.
I’m imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.
The idea amuses me!
I am also amused
I remember playing starfield and a planet preview got corrupted, so the planet was full of “you shouldn’t be seeing this” textures
Something like this
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…
We love neo-geocentrism
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
Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?
It’s been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.
It’s all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.
You know that friend of yours who never did anything after high school and then completely disappeared? That’s right. Asset culling.
Huh, weird, their mom said it was a drug overdose.
And I thought my eyesight diminishes as I age. Turns out it’s reality itself that’s falling apart.
And figured out parallax a long time ago
I use glasses so I can switch between high render distance and high-FPS.
hopefully it’s not running on Nvidia
In that hypothetical, it’s not like anybody would notice.
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.
Lmao, this bro thinks the additional volumetric lighting and postprocessing is helping the framerate.
