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My problem with the "let's cause a glitch in the simulation to escape it" idea is this. What are the odds that you'll glitch it and not just simply "crash" the
by MarkusWandel 4y ago
My problem with the "let's cause a glitch in the simulation to escape it" idea is this.
What are the odds that you'll glitch it and not just simply "crash" the universe, i.e. instantly end its existence? And actually escape, intact, to some higher plane? Let's say one in a billion.
Now let's say you're the higher entity to which universes like ours are bacteria... billions and billions of them. Boom, some of them evolve, everything changed in an instant.
But let's say you're one of the bacteria-like universes. Glitch, and you have a 99.9999999% chance that you'll wipe out the universe? Do that? Don't be ridiculous.
This game only makes sense from the perspective of the higher entity. Not from inside the simulation.
- themihai 4y ago>> And actually escape, intact, to some higher plane? I think the chances are as high as that of snake getting out of a nokia 3310
- zqna 4y agoWe should have an award: "the HN pun of the day".
- layer8 4y agoWhere’s the pun?
- Ancalagon 4y agoCould an _intelligent_ snake on a Nokia 3310 have caused a buffer overflow in an intelligent way such that some intelligent piece of it was capable of escaping the game to get to the OS, and perhaps beyond? And let’s say the snake knew almost nothing of how the OS worked or even what computer code or microprocessors really functioned like outside of what it could observe from its game. Kind of an interesting philosophical CS thought experiment. The game itself might not have been very isolated from the OS, although applying this to some 4D super beings and our own universe I imagine maybe they’ve got a better handle on things.
- zqna 4y agoCan an _intelligent_ man from my dreams get out and materialize into our world? Good look to him doing that, as I've already awoken, and won't be dreaming him again any time soon.
- ASalazarMX 4y ago> This game only makes sense from the perspective of the higher entity. Not from inside the simulation. Always wondered, if our universe was a simulation, maybe the inherent randomness of quantum mechanics is a deliberate optimization, so it doesn't have to store the state beyond certain resolution. This is of course couch mental wandering, but imagine if quantum computers are powerful because they're a sandbox escape, directly using resources from the host. If advanced quantum computers start draining too much resources, said higher entity might notice and decide to stop the simulation.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoThat’s exactly how many 3D games are rendered. You don’t render scenes not within the field of view and draw distance of the frame.
- sliken 4y agoThe quantum uncertainty principal and the speed of light are quite convenient if you are trying to efficiency simulate a universe without infinite computational power.
- Ancalagon 4y agoExcept the speed of light is actually pretty small on absolute terms. Modern computers can imagine much larger numbers and have no problem utilizing them. Edit: or maybe the speed of light is actually represented in Planck lengths/planck times in the 4D simulation computers O.o