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?
The server shuts down. Admin adds in few more sticks of ram and powers it on again.
The day is reset and we wake up again from the morning of that day where there was a RAM shortage.
I am the only person who lives in the simulaton. You all are computer generated.
Teleportation based on old location data being deleted
This is why older people think slower and lose memories or cognitive functions as side effects. They are depriorizized and moved from ram to pagefiles/swap disk.
If you’re unfamiliar, the OS will move process memory onto disk when RAM runs out.
Have you ever noticed when you look into a telescope that it takes a little bit to position yourself right to see what you’re looking at? And it seems like you used to be able to do it a lot faster? That’s not age, that’s actually lag time added to cover decompressing the data.
