It's light-based computing.
So you make a framework, compound it into a big bang ball and then let it run. Afterwards, you analyze the imagery from start to finish or at whatever point you need to.
Can't interact with it though, only observe.
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I understand the point your making, but what if the simulation was actually not shared at all?
Perhaps in this scenario the human brain is the only required hardware? Then there would only be one "base simulation" that is in fact just a basic set of prompts, rules, and initial visual stimulus that is then sent to each person in essence creating a whole separate simulation within each individual. Everything that happens after that is created based on how each individual reacts to the initial prompts. The main system would not have to create any new data to keep the simulation growing because the human mind would create and store all new information within itself. Each new person born would have all the additional hard drive and processing power needed to keep the simulation going for the rest of their lives.
Just consider that if the world as we know it is just a simulation, and that simulation is all we have ever known since birth, how would you ever know if the other people are real or not? Would it even matter?
You’ve basically hit the nail on the head. It’s pretty simple to argue based on information theory / statistical mechanics that a machine that runs the simulation has to support at least as many states as the thing its simulating, so a machine that simulates a universe as complex as its host would take up the entire host universe.
It’s a fun idea but ultimately it’s not at all scientific and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Simple answer, our sim is an entire universe, so likely it's being run on a jupiter brain or matrioshka brain.
It could even be possible to run it on a Black Hole computer.
Basically all these options would allow well beyond the computing power needed to not just simulate a universe, but to handle individual people in that universe also running simulations.
In fact it may even be optimized for that to allow scientists to run simulations within the simulated universe for the purpose of experiments that need simulation but don't require an entire ulta-massive black hole's worth of computing power to get the results needed.
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Very simple. I'm the only one being simulated, all of you people are AIs. /s
I seem to remember that the common concensus is that it would be easier to create a whole universe than the individual simulation model.
Why do you think everything sucks right now? The simulations ran out of resources long ago so no new ideas are created, just rehashing of already established ones. It's why we have AI, but it can't generate anything new or useful. It's why we're about to have a restart of World War 2 and The Cold War. It's why movies that come out already are getting remade, but slightly worse than the original story.
People like to think that's because capitalism only caters to the safe bets. But we know better! It's really just that the old Apple 2e that's running the simulation(s) is low on resources!!
Now, where did I leave all that red string, pictures of Bigfoot and the Loc Ness monster, and thumbtacks?