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Maybe all the other instances crashed, but we got lucky and get to apply the anthropic principle. The real question is, are we running on bare metal, in a VM,
by Smoosh 3y ago
Maybe all the other instances crashed, but we got lucky and get to apply the anthropic principle.
The real question is, are we running on bare metal, in a VM, or in a container?
- gumby 3y ago> The real question is, are we running on bare metal, in a VM, or in a container? We can't be running on the bare hardware; there is clearly an OS enforcing the hardware abstraction (e.g. every electron is identical). But is each universe its own process? What happens if you fork()?
- emmelaich 3y ago> every electron is identical That's an illusion; there is only one electron.
- ForIveSyntax 3y agobuddhism intensifies
- gumby 3y agoThat’s how the kernel implements it anyway; every time you do a syscall to look at it you get a different pointer to the same 'struct lepton'.
- rkagerer 3y agoUniverse is a quantum computer, forking every Planck interval.
- ForIveSyntax 3y agoWhy do you ask? Are you hoping to ROWHAMMER a parallel universe? Genuinely curious if there’s any scientifically useful direction to this question
- WXLCKNO 3y agoI'd watch a movie with that premise.
- tomoyoirl 3y agoI believe they tried an experiment that was similar to that at the start of Schild’s Ladder — and for their troubles they were rewarded with a vacuum decay expanding through space at about 0.5c.
- skirmish 3y ago"According to the more conservative cosmologists, an alien superpower – maybe a collective of Kardashev Type Three galaxy-spanning civilizations – is running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of space-time itself, trying to break through to whatever's underneath." in Accelerando
- wwilim 3y agoIt's all WebAssembly
- syrusakbary 3y agohahaha as a founder working on the Wasm space, this made me giggle!
- antipaul 3y agoWe run on GPUs. The real question is, what does the AI that runs us, run on?
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- Aerbil313 3y agoI’ve never understood the anthropic principle. It’s a very big maybe for seemingly no reason. Existence of a single universe is a pretty hard thing to contemplate, why should we consider multiples of it?