Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live in simulated universe.
Watch the show Pantheon sometime! No spoilers, just highly relevant.
Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU
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#12Only tangentially related, but the lovely (quite) short story "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" is fantastic and kind of hits on simulating worlds, in a sense: https://qntm.org/responsibility
I just love how a world-class quantum computer scientist who just made a discovery that just blows up everything known to mankind is up to the very end is worried about missing a bus.
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#13Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live in simulated universe.
The Universe tries its best to catch up with Math. So, Math isn't fully simulable by the real?
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#14Only tangentially related, but the lovely (quite) short story "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" is fantastic and kind of hits on simulating worlds, in a sense: https://qntm.org/responsibility
To deepen this tangent, I'll recommend Philip K. Dick's The Trouble With Bubbles which imagines 60s cocktail party guests showing off their miniature planet-scale terrariums.
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#15Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live in simulated universe.
What's it even like to live in a non-simulated one!
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#16does anybody know what the music accompanying the full video was? It seemed familiar but I couldn't place it. Maybe AI generated?
Sunshine (Adagio in D minor) https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/50ExtKr8j9cHTY3OEw282... I asked Siri to identify the song.
Sounds more like "jackhammer in D minor" rather than an "adagio"
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#17Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live in simulated universe.
The energy and matter in the universe is actually a big analog quantum computer simulating the result of a set of equations.
Nobody said the simulation had to be run on semiconductors.
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#18Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to live in simulated universe.
When thinking about this one, I always wonder if it even matters.. playing both "Yes" and "No" scenarios doesn't really offer any insight for me. Maybe it's a degree of nihilism but it makes me not get overwhelmed.
A simulation has a nonzero chance of having exploits, and it's debatable whether it is in our best interest to discover them.
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#19Today, a simple simulation at 60fps.
Tomorrow: "When you gaze long into the simulation, the simulation gazes back"
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#20>written entirely in GLSL fragment shaders
What's the language for that?
(The music is pretty cliche. Maybe it was written by AI)