This is quite plausible if one subscribes to Boström's Simulation Argument.
Which any sane Vulcan of course does.
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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.
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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It's been much the same for every big technology that's come along.
TV, radio, electricity, boats, all led to people using the technology of the age to interpret the world.
What I can appreciate about this is that it requires other people to be just real as yourself in the simulation
"neilty son", aww cute name
In that hypothetical, it's not like anybody would notice.
BSOD vibes
No we just get rebooted, in which case the side effects are Mandela effects and those points in history where we are all aware something definitely changed or glitched out overnight.
potential states are affected by observation.
Nothing about running out of resources though.
Cursed to look into the great mysteries of existence with a mind high tuned for pattern recognition and projecting familiar narratives.
Is that something beyond our current understanding? No, no, it's just a familiar desktop environment. But fuck you if you project a name and a face into the unknown. That's backwards and primitive!
black holes and dark matter are the errors starting to pop up
You're gonna need a bigger gpu - Chief Brody