Wait, did world shit start getting spicy when JWT went online?
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I like how she tags Neil DeGrasse Tyson as if the funny haha tv scientist podcast man is out there writing budget proposals for CERN or Fermilab
There's a short story (more of a novella) by Stephen Baxter on this exact topic, for what it's worth. Touching Centauri: https://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/1035265/30/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html
This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.
Which any sane Vulcan of course does.
“Who’s Neilty Son?”
Oh. Oooh, right.
Son of Neil Ty, duh.
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Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get a chance to escape.
That's only if you're a person from outside that was put into the simulation. If we're all just simulated beings we'd never know.
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In that hypothetical, it's not like anybody would notice.
If that were true, and it was just a simple large telescope using lenses, would anything have to actually be rendered or would simple 2D images displayed in the telescope results suffice? Also assumes no pre-rendering.
Assuming there's no one else in that part of the universe looking at it from closer up, you could probably play around with fudging some super-duper low-resolution (compared to being there) LoDs on that part of the sky to make it look and behave good enough.
What I can appreciate about this is that it requires other people to be just real as yourself in the simulation
Imagine talking about simulation theory with that much certainty.
the universe disappears
Yeah? Is that how it works?
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"neilty son", aww cute name
There is something inherent about spending too much time with computers that warps people's brains into compulsively perceiving everything around them in digital logic.
Many of the allegories from the likes of Descartes and Aristotle use the concept of the mind being manipulated by demons - a common trope of their times - but the concepts being explored were the same as people talking about being a character in a book, or a brain in a jar, or a computer simulation; they're just using the prevailing ideas of their time to communicate ideas to their contemporaries.
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BSOD vibes