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.
Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/
(PDF and Audio)
Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago
We love neo-geocentrism
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.
When your all mighty creator is an alien grad student with a spare raspberri Pi to run a 3d universe sim on for extra credit.
Makes sense they appeal to similar groups and both provide naive comfort of an unfalsifiable metaphysics instead of having to deal with the discomfort of the unknown and not knowing.
Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!
Just download more ram Mr Simulator!
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?
Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.
Wh-A-A-A-t?¿?
I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent
black holes and dark matter are the errors starting to pop up
Imagine thinking the Truman Show is an example of cosmological theory crafting.
It’s okay as long as Moore’s Law holds, they can just keep waiting for better computer to compensate
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.
this mf out here thinking God is gonna pay for 4k textures on everything, even the skybox!
“neilty son”, aww cute name
