If we all exist in a simulation, what will happen once we start running out of RAM?
Assuming our simulation is not designed to auto-scale (and our Admins don’t know how to download more RAM), what kind of side effects could we see in the world if the underlying system hosting our simulation began running out of resources?
So… the ultra-rich are just poorly programmed process with memory leaks. And there’s no runaway process killer to protect the system.
God is just a hack scripter; it makes sense.
I don’t necessarily believe this, but I’ll play along.
To make it appear natural so we don’t notice, death is the first thing that comes to mind. So pandemics, disasters and wars that kill off beings on a large scale to free up memory. A globe with limited surface area seems ideal to stick us on to begin with, with anything outside of that sphere virtually impossible to access. The size of Earth could have been chosen because it fits comfortably within the RAM limits. If Earth is pushing the RAM limits, each planet could be hosted on its own server. So if we someday colonized Mars or the moon, the trip between would be like a server transfer making the RAM issues for interplanetary colonization inconsequential.
If you want to really explore the fringes of this concept, maybe those in the simulation would see glitches that shouldn’t happen if it starts running out of RAM. UFOs, shadows, or synchronicities could become commonplace. People could randomly go catatonic or experience amnesia if they’re personally impacted. If it got out of control across the entire simulation, perhaps a hard reset would become necessary. It may even be a planned cycle of hard resets based on the anticipated maximum lifespan of the simulation before things start to get fucky due to memory errors. So power on = big bang, and hard reset something like big crunch or heat death of the universe.
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mozzkill -9 on a few processes. Inside the sim, this looks a lot like the Chicxulub impact.
We would probably see more caching of parts of the universe that don’t typically observe. Given that our current observation can’t see this in current time, we don’t immediately notice.
The interesting bit would be to figure out what parts get cached, since we may not be the only sentient life.
New human instances are being created, and as our society’s general education keeps going up, they demand more processing power.
As our tech goes up, this has to be simulated as well. Not only things like telescopes and the LHC, but your computer who’s running a game world doesn’t actually exists and it’s the super computer who’s running it.
Obviously, this is just a drop in the bucket for an entity that can make a fully simulated universe but the situation quickly becomes untenable if we start creating hyper advanced simulation as well, we are maybe only a few decades away.
As our tech goes up, this has to be simulated as well
Everything is made up of atoms/photons/etc. If every particle is tracked for all interactions, it doesn’t matter how those particles are arranged, it’s always the same memory.
Atoms and photons wouldn’t actually exist, they would be generated whenever we measure things at that level.
Obviously, there’s many ways to interpret what kind of simulation it would be. A full simulation from the big band is fun but doesn’t make for good conversation since it would be indistinguishable from reality.
I was thinking more of a video game like simulation, where the sim doesn’t render things it doesn’t need to.
where the sim doesn’t render things it doesn’t need to.
That can’t work unless it’s a simulation made personally for you.
If it was a simulation, there would be no need to go that far. We simulate physics without simulating the individual atoms.
None of it would be real, the microscopic effects would just be approximated unless a precis measurement tool with be used and then they would be properly simulated.
We wouldn’t know the difference.
If it was a simulation, there would be no need to go that far
But you already said you have to go that far whenever someone is doing something where they could notice microscopic effects.
So it’s not a simulation as much as a mind reading AI that continuously reads every sentient mind in the entire universe so as to know whether they are doing a microscopic observation that needs the fine grained resolution result or an approximation can be returned.
There would be no need to go that far at all times is what I’m saying. It’s the equivalent of a game rendering stuff far away only when you use a scope. Why render everything at all times if it isn’t being used and does not affect the experience. It would augment the overhead by an insane amount.
This is also just a thought exercise.
Why render everything at all times if it isn’t being used and does not affect the experience.
But how does the simulation software know when it needs to calculate that detail? If you are the only person in the simulation, it’s obvious because everything is rendered from your perspective. But if it’s more than one person in the universe, an ai program has to look at the state of the mind of everyone in the universe to make sure they aren’t doing something where they could perceive the difference.
Am I microwaving a glass of water to make tea, or an I curious about that YouTube video where I saw how you can use a microwave to measure the speed of light. Did I just get distracted and didn’t follow through with the measurement? Only something constantly monitoring my thoughts can know. And it has to be doing it for everyone everywhere in the entire universe.
The way I see it, it would be coupled with the tool and not the intention someone has with it. So every microwave would render it properly at all time, as well as most electronics just by their very nature, regardless of what the person plans to do with it.
Actually I think they can probably just approximate the microwave stuff and just keep the electrical tools rendering like oscilloscopes.
They only need to render for things that give an exact measurement, the microwave trick has a 3% tolerance which is huge in the scope of things.
It seems like a lot but it’s less than simulating every single atom imo.
It’s more than electronics. Every piece of diffraction grating could be used to make a wave interference measurement. Every fiber optic line in the world- because bend it too much and the wave doesn’t stay bound inside.
But that still doesn’t get rid of the AI part because you need something watching to know when an electronic device is created by anyone everywhere in the universe and understand that that device is a type of device that could be used to reveal detailed measurements.
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Not sure you've experienced the end of many SimCity games if you think this is the case. 😂
If anything, the earth lately kinda feels like someone's gotten bored with the game.
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