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If we are all living in a simulation there may have been an extremely stressed cosmic sys admin racing to make sure we did not get into an overflow situation.
by theginger 2y ago
If we are all living in a simulation there may have been an extremely stressed cosmic sys admin racing to make sure we did not get into an overflow situation.
- Throw83839 2y ago"Cosmic sys admin" can terminate any misbehaving "process" that consumes too many resources. Matrix will protect itself, even if it would take a murder!
- malux85 2y ago"even if" is generous, I am kill -9 crazy if stability is even slightly threatened
- stingraycharles 2y agoUnfortunately looking at the job requirements for a "Cosmic sys admin", it looks like the universe was written in PHP after all. https://www.cosmicdevelopment.com/careers/system-admin/ https://www.cosmicdevelopment.com/careers/system-admin/
- throwaway211 2y agoPi's a trick that was invented to keep us busy. That or integers were and we should have an natural number of fingers and toes.
- smitty1e 2y agoReality is continuous. A simulation is discrete. The simulation hypothesis seems less plausible than many religious argument one could proffer.
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoReality is discrete tho. Check out Planck length. The simulation hypothesis is ridiculous in many other ways of course.
- messe 2y agoReality, as best we understand it, is very much not discrete, and space is not split into chunks at the Planck length. A discrete space-time would likely mean observable Lorentz-violations.
- Lichtso 2y agoDiscrete spacetime does not necessitate a regular and nicely ordered tesselation, it could be pure chaos or be non-geometric. Before we thought that energy, mass and matter were completely continuous and that turned out to be wrong.
- omnicognate 2y agoThe Planck length has no physical significance. It's just a unit of length, chosen for convenience as part of the system of Planck units. The Planck scale is the scale of lengths/times/etc that are around 1 in Planck units. This happens to be the scale roughly around which the quantum effects of gravity become significant. Since we do not have an accepted quantum theory of gravity, it's therefore the scale at which we cease to have an accepted physical theory. There is no evidence to suggest that space is discrete at that scale. It's just the scale at which we have no accepted theory, and AFAIK no evidence to evaluate such a theory.
- Lichtso 2y ago> The Planck length has no physical significance > There is no evidence to suggest that space is discrete at that scale Bekenstein bound and "planckian discreteness". Reality is most likely not composed of a regular tesselation of simple geometric shapes such as a cartesian voxel grid as that would introduce massive anisotropy. But, there is still theoretic evidence suggesting that spacetime is indeed discrete at the lowest level.
- islon 2y agoThey just keep generating random numbers from the universe's entropy source. It's quite simple actually.
- wiz21c 2y ago> the universe's entropy source What's the python package to get that ? :-)
- complaintdept 2y agoIf pi eventually starts behaving deterministically we'll know we've exhausted /dev/random.
- complaintdept 2y ago202 trillion digits is impossible to for one person to observe directly anyway, so no resources consumed.
- gshubert17 2y agoWritten or printed out at 3 digits per centimeter, 202 trillion digits would make a string about 670 million kilometers long -- or about the distance between Earth and Jupiter.
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