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.
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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.
with only 10 quintillion essential bugs
Something weird happened with the platypus but he wasn’t about to start over
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”
TheAngreSeal beat me too it… : ^ )
@theangryseal beat me to it… kudos! : ^ )
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.
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Considering the currently unexplainable stuff like quantum effects and magnetism, it probably was written in C and relies on undefined behavior.
It’s all just memory leaks. We’ll dump core soon. Nice knowing you all. xo
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.
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.
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Given the quality of the simulation I think it’s a vibe-coded prototype
You would be absolutely correct
Proprietary. Whoever paid for our server did not spring for the premium version where every planet has sentient alien life.
Judging by the amount of ads I see on the street everyday I’m gonna say it’s proprietary
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!
3, take it or leave it
Pi is exactly 4!
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”
It’s hacked together with an ancient version of Perl
It’s FOSS, everyone can contribute, animals are mods and testers.
Absolutely 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.
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.
The simulator is OSS
The kernel is proprietary and written so long ago the original coders and maintainers have long since died off
Did they write it in COBOL?
It was written BY the Lords of COBOL!
I have no idea. It’s already compiled so it’s pure state and runs on any platform. It would be a monumental project to reverse engineer the kernel at this point.
If species progressed far enough in technology to simulate billions of years of an universe that consists of tiny atoms under a constant refresh rate that only gets harder to run as time goes on, there’s 0% chance it’d happen in a system where proprietary software and similar private and intellectual property can exist
The refresh rate doesn’t have to be constant though. Each “step” however long it took to simulate would seem like an instant to us. Our conciousnesses are also simulated, which means we always percieve the new frames as fast as we are simulated.
The simulator could even break down and resume without us noticing. It also doesnt’t have to be fast enough to simulate a second per second. Imagine a simulator actually running for (more) billions of years. It seems silly but possible.
Yes, time isn’t a limiting factor, but error free, coherent processing is.
It could get so long that it becomes impossible for that much information to be processed without a certain number of errors and then the simulation would start breaking down.
The bigger it is, the more information it has and the longer it takes for the next quanta of time in-simulation, the most the risk of error increases.
