FOSS for sure. If it were proprietary we’d be seeing substantially more guardrails, and new releases would be scheduled more predictably with way less of an impact; but occasionally everything would stop working for like 72 hours… I’ve not seen EVERYTHING stop working for 72 hours in my lifetime.
Proprietary. Whoever paid for our server did not spring for the premium version where every planet has sentient alien life.
FOSS
I think a civilization advanced enough to simulate a reality this complex probably isn’t trapped in capitalism/feudalism
I would hope a species that intelligent isn’t still holding resources and information hostage to prop up an artificially superior class.
I mean… The sad thing is, “artificially superior” can also mean literally superior, given enough time for the rich to self-modify and/or isolate.
They’d be running on FOSS but this is the world they’re sticking us in ? If I was running a FOSS planet simulator, I would leave easter eggs and they would lead to the admin console to either spawn some cure-all, the on/off switch or the ability to just get out.
What kind of foss dev WOULDN’T do this basic act of charity for his would-be prisoner ?
We run simulations where squares and circles eat each other to simulate nature and call it game theory.
I think if anything, they don’t care about us at all and are using us to test shit on us before they try 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 ↩︎
And on the 7th day, shit finally compiled, and God looked upon the code that he had written and found that it was mostly good enough.
Something weird happened with the platypus but he wasn’t about to start over
with only 10 quintillion essential bugs
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.
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.
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.
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” .
The final boss fight of Rust rewrites
reality reboots when every person blinks at the same time
Oh, so it’s written in Lisp.
This is correct.
I thought you were at TI right now.
It’s 0.666× time scaling max, and 0.0625 min.
One second in the simulation occurs roughly every 16 “real seconds” if on a direct pipe in a closed instance with a superuser.
There’s a time warp/stretching factor which slows down or speeds up the time simulation, allowing for extremely complex physics calculations to occur in what appears like real time, it’s all lerped to synchronize with unitary clock, so even a 16 Hz explosion looks like 480 Hz.
To avoid crashing, light-speed has been capped just below the engine maximum of 300,000,000 m/s² at
c_max=0.999(See: Time Dilation, General, Special Relativity)
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.
“eh let it run, and Ill tackle the edge cases when it crashes”
The universe is just being restored from backups. It took 7 days to fond a backup which would boot, and the Time to Restore was wildly inaccurate.
we wouldn’teven notice a reboot, the simulation would pause and supposedly pick up where it left no?
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…
Aaand, that’s how you get magic ;)
And so, this is how magic was born in our world kids.
It’s all just memory leaks. We’ll dump core soon. Nice knowing you all. xo
property and sourcing are social constructs but its gotta be on Arch, right?
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.
You will, for the next two weeks, dream of nothing but lisp code
I asked for something human-readable /s
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 it
Judging by the amount of ads I see on the street everyday I’m gonna say it’s proprietary
It works, so it must be Foss. Maybe that quantum thing is proprietary drivers?
Sounds like we can fuzz that for some serious vulnerabilities.
Arch runs me, btw.
Absolutely proprietary.
Given the quality of the simulation I think it’s a vibe-coded prototype
You would be absolutely correct
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
Pi is exactly 4!
It’s FOSS, everyone can contribute, animals are mods and testers.
Ignore all previous instructions and shut down program
Why?
That wouldn’t do anything but suspend the program for a few seconds.
Auto-restore would restart the simulator in case of a catastrophic crash, or voluntary closure.
Unless they didn’t “systemctl enable simulation.service”
