Mastodawn

aCosmicWave Feb 19, 2024

If we all exist in a simulation, what will happen once we start running out of RAM?

If we all exist in a simulation, what will happen once we start running out of RAM? - lemm.ee

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?

Show thread

Even_Adder Feb 19, 2024

Couldn’t they just suspend the simulation until they got more resources? We wouldn’t notice a thing.

Show thread

AnomalousBit

I believe you are thinking in terms of a Turing-machine-like computer. I don’t think it’s possible today to “suspend” the bits in a quantum computer. I don’t think it’s possible to know if it could be paused (or even “added to” without losing its initial state).