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Genghis ,

We go to sleep and it clears

Ashtear ,

Great, thanks for the dose of existential dread.

mkwt ,

The OOM killer goes on the prowl.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

An automatic purge process will start to prevent this. It happened several times in the past. Last time between 2019-2022. It removed circa 7 million processes. With regular purges like this it is made sure that the resources are not maxed out before the admins can add more capacity.

Brkdncr ,

We can see that already when something approaches the speed of light: time slows down for it.

semperverus ,
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This simplification horribly misunderstands what time-dilation is, and I love it.

Brkdncr ,

My vm is running out of ram.

CrabAndBroom ,

I have a running theory that that’s also what’s going on with quantum physics, because I understand it so poorly that it just seems like nonsense to me. So in my head, I see it as us getting into some sort of source code we’re not supposed to see, and on the other side some programmers are going “fuck I don’t know, just make it be both things at once!” and making it up on the fly.

bjg13 ,

Limitations of hardware resources show up as “Natural Limits”, like the speed of light, in the simulation. The amount of RAM consumed translates to the Hubble Bubble, or the greatest distance light could have traveled since the beginning of our universe, and moreso to the amount of matter and energy contained within it, which is a constant. Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed forms allowed, so a set amount from the beginning.

cmat273 ,

The universe starts swapping

picandocodigo ,
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You should check out the short story “Sleepover” by Alastair Reynolds.

espentan ,

Who knows… maybe we’ll experience pointless wars and massive inequality… selfish douchebags who only care about bolstering their ego might gain power… heck, maybe even the climate will slowly start changing for the worse.

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

So… the ultra-rich are just poorly programmed process with memory leaks. And there’s no runaway process killer to protect the system.

God is just a hack scripter; it makes sense.

Vlarbgersplah ,

I don’t necessarily believe this, but I’ll play along.

To make it appear natural so we don’t notice, death is the first thing that comes to mind. So pandemics, disasters and wars that kill off beings on a large scale to free up memory. A globe with limited surface area seems ideal to stick us on to begin with, with anything outside of that sphere virtually impossible to access. The size of Earth could have been chosen because it fits comfortably within the RAM limits. If Earth is pushing the RAM limits, each planet could be hosted on its own server. So if we someday colonized Mars or the moon, the trip between would be like a server transfer making the RAM issues for interplanetary colonization inconsequential.

If you want to really explore the fringes of this concept, maybe those in the simulation would see glitches that shouldn’t happen if it starts running out of RAM. UFOs, shadows, or synchronicities could become commonplace. People could randomly go catatonic or experience amnesia if they’re personally impacted. If it got out of control across the entire simulation, perhaps a hard reset would become necessary. It may even be a planned cycle of hard resets based on the anticipated maximum lifespan of the simulation before things start to get fucky due to memory errors. So power on = big bang, and hard reset something like big crunch or heat death of the universe.

8565 ,

Wars would use too much ram do Pandemic would make.more sense

MrJameGumb ,
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There would either be some kind of mass extinction event or something that would be considered “supernatural” would occur to maintain the status quo

mozz ,
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I did not expect the responses to this question to be as interesting to read as they are 😃

sylver_dragon ,

The server admins run a kill -9 on a few processes. Inside the sim, this looks a lot like the Chicxulub impact.

HobbitFoot ,

We would probably see more caching of parts of the universe that don’t typically observe. Given that our current observation can’t see this in current time, we don’t immediately notice.

The interesting bit would be to figure out what parts get cached, since we may not be the only sentient life.

xmunk ,

Maybe the system would be configured with some odd laws that constantly shrink the size of the observable universe?

Even_Adder ,

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

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 also don’t think it’s possible to know if the simulation could be paused (or even “added to” without losing its initial state).

HeartyBeast ,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

Render distance would be reduced requiring us to come up with plausible theories to account for the fact that there is a limit to the size of the so-called ‘observable universe’

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