Assuming our simulation is not designed to auto-scale (and our Admins don’t know how to download more RAM), what kind of side effects could we see in the world if the underlying system hosting our simulation began running out of resources?

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How would you know what physics runs the host universe? For all we know, things like ram limitations doesn’t even apply there

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Ever walk into a room and forget why you went in there? That’s garbage collection

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Who is to say that the sim needs ram. What if it were just a giant state machine where the current state only depends on the previous state. And the entire universe is the “ram”.

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For a simulation as complex and powerful as the universe. we would be running in a Real-Time OS. So applications couldn’t even run if the resources weren’t sufficient.

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Stutterers

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