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.
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.
Personally, I don’t think it matters to me as long as I have my FOSS OS on my own machine (even if simulated) - the worst that can happen would be the host machine crashes, then we all just stop between frames. We’d stop existing in plank time.
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 genuinely exactly 10 (if you’re working in base Pi)
property and sourcing are social constructs but its gotta be on Arch, right?
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”
Arch runs me, btw.
It works, so it must be Foss. Maybe that quantum thing is proprietary drivers?
Sounds like we can fuzz that for some serious vulnerabilities.
Absolutely proprietary.
It’s FOSS, everyone can contribute, animals are mods and testers.
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.
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.
Gonna be fucking silly here: I think the whole program is essentially self writing as it produces sentient, sapient beings, ergo, the concepts of Open and Closed Source breaks down completely.
Probably software with only one user who has access to the source code, i.e. trivially FOSS but not publicly available.
One day it will be good enough to let others see.
