Harambe-mushroom-trip.exe
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
I dunno. I feel like the fact that it’s able to reliably simulate 10[1] particles in realtime since the beginning of time, I’d guess it’s not running on Windows at least. But I also have a hard time it’s Linux because someone would always be messing with things and it would have needed to reboot for some reason or another about 6 or 7 times. Maybe the 7 days God spent building Earth was just time spent on building the server config lol.
a lot ↩︎
The simulation absolutely runs on Windows, have you seen the random unwanted stuff that happens way too often in it?
At the local level, yes - but I figured that was poor Earth drivers caused by spotty documentation and bitrot. At the cosmic level, it seems to run pretty clean. Uptime of a couple billion years cannot be beat, but I do wonder how they encode timestamps
A couple billion years from our point of view.
Dude doing the programming hasn’t even left for lunch yet.
We would have no way of knowing what the time factor is but I think 1:1 seems highly unlikely. Much more likely that we’re running very slowly due to limits on available processing power or very fast so a civilisation can rise and fall within the observer’s lifetime.
I thought you were at TI right now.
We’d also be entirely unaware of reboots. Our reality would just resume from the last save point and we’d just move on like nothing happened.
This is correct.Reality reboots only when I’m sleeping and you can’t prove otherwise.
When I stay up too long and start ‘hallucinating’ that’s actually the simulation breaking.
reality reboots when every person blinks at the same time
No. That’s just because the thread simulating your consciousness has leaked too much memory. So when you sleep the thread saves important parts of the memory map and terminates and a new one is started with an empty memory map ready for a new “day” .
And on the 7th day, shit finally compiled, and the lord looked upon his code and found that it was mostly good enough.
with only 10 quintillion essential bugs
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.
The simulator is OSS
The kernel is proprietary and written so long ago the original coders and maintainers have long since died off
Did they write it in COBOL?
It was written BY the Lords of COBOL!
Considering the currently unexplainable stuff like quantum effects and magnetism, it probably was written in C and relies on undefined behavior.
Wait… does that mean if we can find the expected handling of unexpected input or values thrown, we can take advantage of that to gain hypervisor access to the root device? Or be able to write values directly into the memory of the system? Perhaps there’s even a predictable error handling for invalid states attempted usable as a known variable for exploiting…
And so, this is how magic was born in our world kids.
Aaand, that’s how you get magic ;)
It’s all just memory leaks. We’ll dump core soon. Nice knowing you all. xo
It’s hacked together with an ancient version of Perl
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.
Your brain is proprietary, both software and hardware
How do you know? Just because the repository is hosted outside of our space-time. Doesn’t mean it’s not an open source repository.
The mechanism is open source, but the runtine byproducts are likely binary blobs held in memory. Genetic algorithms tend to have source readable starting point, but the inbetween stages are rarely documented
That should all be covered in the unit tests.
Which are used in the integration test suit called sex?
FOSS. The uptime is phenomenal
only if we assume time runs just as fast outside the simulation, it could be that a million years for us is only a second for them
Every time a sun is born, changes colour, and winks out of existence, a single pixel is rendered in a universe-sized screen running DOOM
So it’s all redstone circuitry after all.
mumbojumbos new project
For whoever is running the simulation, concepts like FOSS or proprietary do not even apply.
Given the quality of the simulation I think it’s a vibe-coded prototype
Proprietary. If we’re part of a simulation, it’s being run by a fucking oligarch.
Nah. That’s on humans. Earth gets free solar, that’s the UBI of the galaxy.
Solar energy, temperate climates and a self regulation mechanism to distribute heat well, liquid and clean water, plants and animals providing nutrition, materials for anything from a clay hut to microchips…
I’ll give it a go:
- As a user/inhabitant/subjectof the simulation, I demand that the operator of the simulation uphold their obligations in The License by providing the Source Code of the simulation to me, in human-readable format, within a reasonable timeframe (two weeks). The source code may be conveyed via USB stick, CD, clouds in the sky, or other reasonable media.
Request deniedIf you need specific and special access to universe core data, you can submit a maintainer request at:
Universe@CoreA cloned archived sectional copy might be provided upon request only containing relevant data with regards to research on a localized sector of the simulation.
Isn’t this like the
tmuxbinary asking for the full kernel source code, despite having no means to read and comprehend itYou will, for the next two weeks, dream of nothing but lisp code
