Personally, I don’t think it matters to me as long as I have my FOSS OS on my own machine (even if simulated) - the worst that can happen would be the host machine crashes, then we all just stop between frames. We’d stop existing in plank time.
FOSS for sure. If it were proprietary we’d be seeing substantially more guardrails, and new releases would be scheduled more predictably with way less of an impact; but occasionally everything would stop working for like 72 hours… I’ve not seen EVERYTHING stop working for 72 hours in my lifetime.
It works, so it must be Foss. Maybe that quantum thing is proprietary drivers?
Sounds like we can fuzz that for some serious vulnerabilities.
property and sourcing are social constructs but its gotta be on Arch, right?
Arch runs me, btw.
Depends. If some higher dimensional beings are running the simulation, neither. Its government software.
Absolutely proprietary.
Technically proprietary software, but that’s only because the hardware is unique. It might be free, but I can’t see the source or install it on other universes.
It’s FOSS, everyone can contribute, animals are mods and testers.
FOSS
I think a civilization advanced enough to simulate a reality this complex probably isn’t trapped in capitalism/feudalism
I would hope a species that intelligent isn’t still holding resources and information hostage to prop up an artificially superior class.
I mean… The sad thing is, “artificially superior” can also mean literally superior, given enough time for the rich to self-modify and/or isolate.
Would that not give as a meaning of life though? It’s almost like the Matrix movies, a trapped society on a simulation? That would be cool in my opinion.
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Have you read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? :3
Have you read the Kama Sutra? :3
I actually need to XD
Gonna be fucking silly here: I think the whole program is essentially self writing as it produces sentient, sapient beings, ergo, the concepts of Open and Closed Source breaks down completely.
If species progressed far enough in technology to simulate billions of years of an universe that consists of tiny atoms under a constant refresh rate that only gets harder to run as time goes on, there’s 0% chance it’d happen in a system where proprietary software and similar private and intellectual property can exist
The refresh rate doesn’t have to be constant though. Each “step” however long it took to simulate would seem like an instant to us. Our conciousnesses are also simulated, which means we always percieve the new frames as fast as we are simulated.
The simulator could even break down and resume without us noticing. It also doesnt’t have to be fast enough to simulate a second per second. Imagine a simulator actually running for (more) billions of years. It seems silly but possible.
Probably software with only one user who has access to the source code, i.e. trivially FOSS but not publicly available.
One day it will be good enough to let others see.
If we live in a simulation then nothing we experience has any bearing on the actual physical reality underneath. Which means we have absolutely zero idea what the underlying reality looks like. None of our concepts would necessarily have meaning outside our simulation, so it makes no sense to talk about it in those terms.
Maybe pi is indeed 3.2 out there!
Pi is genuinely exactly 10 (if you’re working in base Pi)
3, take it or leave it
