Re:Confirmed We Live in a Simulation
by gremlinsinc on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:39PM
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Joke or not... there's actually a lot of sound logic...
I mean, I never thought about the limits to things like the speed of light could be set because of the limits of the OS running our simulation... and the easiest solution to the fermi paradox -- is the one where we're the only thing because we're all the simulation allowed for.
So, while it may have been a joke, it definitely provides some thoughts to back up, but I wouldn't say it's "confirmed"....
Confirmed would be a message printed on a proton smashed by the LHC saying, "you're in the matrix".
Confirmed would also be peer-reviewed and on every news station on earth (well, not fox or oann).
Re:Confirmed We Live in a Simulation
by growt on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:16AM
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I don't see it as an April fools joke. It's more like a half satirical editorial piece with a clickbaity title. And the last paragraph sums up that it's not meant seriously.
Re:Confirmed We Live in a Simulation
by jerome-jh on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:16AM
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Now that we've discovered that, I'm afraid the entity running the simulation just thinks "13.8 billion years before it happened", hits Ctrl-C and restarts with different initial conditions.
Re:Confirmed We Live in a Simulation
by sp332 on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:45AM
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The artifact is as an additional component of every operation that is unaffected by the magnitude of the variables being operated upon and is irrelevant within the simulated reality until a maximum variable size is observed.
I don't think that's a good description of the speed of light. Lorentz contraction kicks in well before the limit.
While I don't mind a clever April Fools joke, I do wish that things were clearly marked as such afterwards.
Living in Australia it means at least 48-72 hours of "Oh, right, it's an April Fools joke" as the timezones pass.
I mean, I never thought about the limits to things like the speed of light could be set because of the limits of the OS running our simulation... and the easiest solution to the fermi paradox -- is the one where we're the only thing because we're all the simulation allowed for.
So, while it may have been a joke, it definitely provides some thoughts to back up, but I wouldn't say it's "confirmed"....
Confirmed would be a message printed on a proton smashed by the LHC saying, "you're in the matrix".
Confirmed would also be peer-reviewed and on every news station on earth (well, not fox or oann).
I don't think that's a good description of the speed of light. Lorentz contraction kicks in well before the limit.