This never gets old lmao

Religion is the vehicle of monstrosity

Even though our knowledge of physics is incomplete, a VM running a faster simulation of its container would be a paradox. You could stack successive layers of reality that would go faster and faster reaching eventually Infinite processing speed, allowing the computer from the root layer to perform an Infinite amount of computation in a finite time.

You may say that this could be possible as our understanding of physics is lacking. And that’s fine! But I think this paradox shows that the VM can only run slower than reality

There are indeed ways you could make it work, but then you add more hypothesis and thus the cost of the simulation hypothesis increases.

Optimizations are indeed necessary, but just like the player is something special in a game, the observer would need to have a special status in the universe. I don’t like this idea because the history of science always moved in the direction of making us the observers less and less special.

Moreover if life spreads in the universe, the simulation would encounter a scaling issue with an exponential growth of the numbers of observers.

I agree with you that in the end we just don’t know, it’s fun to push ideas to their limits!

There is a cieling though. A computer made of matter of one universe cannot simulate an entire universe at the same speed. It’s like installing a VM on a computer: the VM is always slower. Each layer would then become exponentially slower with a limit of 0 speed.

Having said that, combined with the fact that our Universe is 13B years old, it would make the age of our root universe exponentially larger than 13B years.

It could maybe feasible if we live in the first layers, but beyond that our root universe would have died from Heat death long ago.

Melted cheese or coco milk with curry

Here is an interesting thread about activitypub’s scalability https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/110198847653604631

Try Murena on fairphone!

Ubuntu 24.04!

Pitivi is really nice

What if they are using OpenAI API and they dont have a model of their own?

I am honestly surprised you got anything at all

I did not have that on my bingo card, but I realize I should have

This is really cool. I would like to see it merged

Oh shit he is right

You can backup your messages on Android at least

Victory!

Good Independent journalism requires money. You can’t have everything for free you know. If you want to keep your privacy then you should pay for the news sources that you read.

Edit: I’m not american I do not know if USA today is good journalism or not. I am speaking more generally

Do it do it do it do it

A teacher has been murdered in France yesterday by an Islamist, how is that?