I mean, the creator of a simulated universe isn’t omnipotent though, for two reasons: first, there are plenty of things that they cannot do in their own universe, being just some regular person there, but more importantly, there must be limits on what they can do in the simulation, because that simulation has to exist on a computer which presumably has finite hardware limitations. “Framerate” or equivalent won’t matter as much because time doesn’t have to pass at the same rate, but the computer still is only going to have so much storage and memory space, or whatever equivalent the technology involved uses, and so nothing that would exceed those limitations can be done in the sim.
I don’t personally suspect that anyone could truly create a simulation of their own universe at all. You could absolutely simulate a universe, but simulating your own universe (presumably your own universe at a point in the past since that’s what context the simulation argument generally gets made in) would have to have some kind of deviation from the real universe, be it that not all of the universe is simulated, or it’s only simulated to a certain level of detail or “resolution” and any physics on a smaller scale is simplified, or time runs slower or something. Because if you can simulate a perfect copy of your universe, or a universe of equivalent complexity and speed, then you can build a computer in that simulation equivalent to the one running it, and since that simulated computer doesn’t use all the resources of it’s simulated universe presumably, you can build several of them and get more processing power than you started with, which makes no sense. And if every “layer” of simulation inheritly has dramatically less possible complexity to it than the layer above, you should eventually (and I suspect rather rapidly) reach a level where further nested simulations are not possible
Hypothetically, isn’t there also a third option that one eventually gets to a base universe, but that base universe has existed for an infinite amount of time and has no beginning?
didnt some religion have a concept where since they believe god infallible, any loophole in the rules must therefore be intended, possibly as a reward for the cleverness of finding it? I forget which one that was
Would they need to be that smart? Ambush predators that stay in roughly one area, for example, could naturally grow their numbers in the area around such a chokepoint simply by virtue of the ones in that area having more food available and therefore better survival chances.
To my understanding, they don’t all contain wasps, and even the types that do have the wasp thing, any trace of a wasp will be long destroyed before the fruit is ready anyway
Last time I saw this kind of challenge it was on reddit and I just replied with ℝ, but people brought up that this leaves out complex numbers. I’ll now contend, however, that any number not included in that isn’t real.
I mean, isnt this a thing in comedy, where you can make the jokes of the one being funny have more impact by contrasting them with a super serious character? Scrooge is already a normally quite serious character, and the muppets are known for their antics, so leaving the comedy to them and acting serious makes a lot of sense.
(Sarcasm aside, what’s so worrying about lizards? Only a couple types are venomous, only a few more are big enough to seriously hurt you (and most of those live in tropical forest sort of places), and anything smaller is probably just going to run away and hide it you get close to it. Lizards are pretty non-threatening.)
It’s actually the reason it can fly: this craft is what is known as a hybrid airship, it’s lifting gas doesn’t quite give it enough lift to fly, unlike a regular airship, and it gets the rest from aerodynamic lift like a plane. This requires it to be vaguely wing-shaped, which is why it has this design like two blimps stuck together.
Sure, but evolution takes a long time and cars have been a common enough threat to potentially cause selection pressure for what, a century or so maybe?
To be fair on the deer, no natural predator is going to be chasing them at that kind of speed, so their instincts have no reason to be adapted to understanding objects moving that fast
That’s a bit like trying to become rich from writing books to my understanding. Some people manage to build enough of a fanbase to make a lot of money that way, but most people who try it won’t make such a huge amount.
Far less friendly, aliens in my empires tend to get marginalized to basic resource planets and banned from growing their population because my primary species is more optimized for research output. Also my most common ascension path is bio-ascension, which federation humans would find very illegal since it’s primarily genetic augmentation.
My Stellaris empires always end up starting more like the vulcans with a focus on science and mostly peaceful exploration, and end up a society of soul-crushing academia that will compromise their own sanity, values and safety for any chance at powerful or dangerous knowledge, ruling over a collection of random protectorates that they maintain for little reason other than diplomatic influence and to have someone to lord their vastly supervisor tech over.
Ironically, having one of the weirder ones has proven greatly beneficial to my life, as the communities around my particular niche of it have been small enough to get to know people and make more new friends than I had ever had before, and it motivated me to start learning digital art
Both beliefs are fine, but please realize the hypocrisy (sh.itjust.works)
soak and jump hump (feddit.de)
Why is such a tunnel needed? (media.mas.to)
I found such a photo on the Internet and became interested in what function such a structure could perform.
They don't understand. We built these machines so that we can work more. (startrek.website)
Weapons of Gas Production (lemmy.today)
Scientists discover first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI (www.euronews.com)
gatekeeping (mander.xyz)
“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.” (lemmy.ca)
What a steal (lemmy.world)
I’ll be waiting in the car (lemmy.world)
"Earth-like" (startrek.website)
Chill. They didn't actually tell their family to buy crypto. (lemmy.world)
Just a blimp (i.redd.it)
Fascinating... (lemmy.world)
Ooooo lights (lemmy.world)
How to succeed as an artist (lemmy.ca)
Peace is too much effort. Suffer in silence. (startrek.website)
Phew... (r.nf)
Only a nightmare…
Post-nut clarity (lemmy.zip)