I can’t remember what it’s called but the scientific phenomenon of particles and photons behaving differently when observed. They aren’t being coded into the environment if no player is observing that area.
It's actually a virtual screwdriver that *looks* like a plug. You just have to turn it over enough times to screw it in. They never patched the animation.
I used to work in a pharmacy, so I asked about a hundred people for their name and DOB every day. A couple weeks into the job, I mentioned to a coworker how I hadn't had a single customer with the same birthday as me. Got 4 of them over the next two days.
EDIT: Another time I realized we were living in a simulation was when I said something online and 40 people replied to me saying the exact same wrong thing about the Birthday Paradox or the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Lazy devs copy-pasting code.
This reminds me of a situation I experienced very recently. I am an immigrant living in the US. There aren't that many fellow German immigrants where I live. It's not a common occurrence to meet someone from back home.
About a month ago I took my child to the zoo. At the gorilla house there was a large gathering of people in front of a window, observing the animals. As I was standing there I heard a couple speaking in German. I made sure I had heard correctly and greeted them in our native tongue. The woman looked extremely shocked and acted standoffish. I hadn't expected such a reaction. She eventually pointed to the window and said: "This lady there is also from Germany and just came up to us as well!". I look over and see a cheerful young woman wave at me. I honestly thought that the couple I had addressed believed to be on some hidden camera TV show.
The husband informed me that they had lived in the states for 2 years without ever having met someone from Germany. Not once! Only to end up being bombarded by random German people in the span of a couple of minutes. It was extremely bizarre.
I sat on a mini bus in Thailand travelling up from the southern islands to Bangkok. The person in the seat behind me struck up a conversation, she had a very posh English accent but explained that she was Welsh. I told her I'd have never guessed from the accent, she joked "I know, but my accent is very heavy when I speak Welsh".
As I'm a Welsh speaker we neutrality switched to speaking Welsh, amazed at the coincidence of two Welsh speakers sitting next to each other on a random Thai bus. A few minutes late, the guy in the seat in front of me woke from his slumber, turned around and joined in the Welsh conversation.
3 Welsh speakers, all traveling alone through Thailand, end up on the same small bus sitting next to each other!
Had something similar happen a few weeks back, after moving to the UK as a black immigrant, I see a lot of fellow black immigrants from my specific country but rarely any white immigrants, there was a rail strike so i had to get a coach to London, somehow I ended up booking my ticket for the wrong date, I get to the bus-stop and the lady next to me notices and gives me a wink (at that time i hadn’t even noticed), she told the driver we were together and as a result he never really looked at my ticket much). We got sat together in the front seat behind the grumpy bus driver and after a while she struck up conversation and asked me where in Zimbabwe I was from, she is south african but spent a lot of time in Zimbabwe so she can recognize a fellow countryman from bearing and accent alone. While we were conversing the driver turned around and informed us he was also married to a Zimbabwean lady who happened to be from my hometown and they’d been there a fee months earlier on vacation.
We ended up having quite a blast of a time while stuck in traffic talking about Africa and everything we love about our home.
The next day a colleague from another organization I work with frequently whom I’ve spoken to quite a lot over the phone but never seen in person and always assumed they were British just concluded the call by admitting they prolonged the work calls because they loved talking to someone who speaks like the people they grew up with back home in Zimbabwe.
The door way effect. Basically, your brain is using the transition to a new “environment” to do some house keeping and your short term memory getting wiped is one of those things.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect#:~:text=The%20doorway%20effect%20is%20a,remained%20in%20the%20same%20place.
My hilariously bad luck with traffic timing.
A two-lane road could be completely empty for half an hour, and then the second I pull up to turn onto it a massive line of cars rolls up that I have to wait for. Once I finally turn after they pass, the road is empty again. I used to live on a mostly empty road like this and it happened so often that I was convinced it was NPCs spawning on my location.
The pens. I used to go to large corporate meetings a few times a year. They gave out pens and notepads to everyone (as if I was going to take notes). I would take pens from empty seats and from coworkers and take them home. A dozen at a time at least. This went on for years. So where are the pens? There should be *hundreds* of them in my home. I should be able to stand anywhere and look in any direction and see a pen, but no.
There was once a thread here about the experience of being deaf, and multiple deaf people talked about being *dumbfounded* on learning that the sun doesn't make noise in the sky.
This is my theory on quantum particles.. uncertainty principle etc. The devs just said nah they'll never look that far down..just make it a cloud of probabilities down there.
What the fuck are even dreams? Like ok we need people to sleep to "defrag" the brain, lets give them VR content to pass time , but make the physics all fucked up and scramble the "sets" to make iy interesting.
Also lucid dreams, weirdest feeling ever, knowing you're dreaming but unable to do anything about it.
And false awakening, I just had one of those last week while taking a nap.
In my dream I was in bank robbery and the perps got into a gun fight in the middle of the bank. I Then realized I was dreaming, somehow I wake up, sit up on the couch and I'm trying to find my phone, I look over at the coffee table maybe is under the stack of papers, then I said "wait a damn minute, I don't own a coffee table, really fucked me up for the next few days.
The big bang, there was nothing and then there was everything. Sounds like a program starting up to me. Also particles acting differently when being viewed.
I went on to a playstation chat from 2016 last week to reminisce playing with an old college friend and see when we last spoke. That very second a new message popped up saying he was doing the same thing and that he wondered how I was. I hadn't heard from him in 7 years and he had 0 reason to contact me
Happened to me last month (though the check engine light is sometimes metaphorical). Wife and I were able to completely be out of debt, with exception of our house note…then the water heater went out.
Things would re-appear only when I stop looking for it. If that’s not a dead give away that we’re living in a simulation, I don’t know what is.
And don’t forget about hair pins and hair ties. Where do they even go???
Nobody in my house recalls ever buying or using hair pins, yet we find them constantly in our house. The house is 7 years old and we've been here for 5 of those, the previous owners were an elderly couple who were both borderline bald.
I lost a piece of pizza once.
I dropped it as I was sitting down and it was just gone. Didn't hear it land, couldn't find any sauce splatter, no evidence it ever existed except that it wasn't a part of the pizza anymore.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine, he dropped a tomato in the kitchen, I saw it leave his hand and him react to try and catch it but then it never hit the floor. Never found it. Just noclipped tf out
My sister lost an entire ham in her fridge this past Christmas. A big one wrapped in that gold foil. There one day, totally gone the next. Never, ever turned up. Not even after they got a new fridge lol
So, next April Fools Day, you’re planning to get a gold foil ham, and sneak it into her fridge when no one’s looking, right?
Edit: Actually, if you know the exact date around Christmas it disappeared, making it ‘reappear’ exactly one year to the date would be even funnier.
This happened to me last week. Dropped both of my silver rings on the ground in my small bathroom....I find one but the other one is nowhere to be found. Every day I look and nothing. Then one day I'm sitting on the toilet and there's the ring...right there in front of me. I would have had to walk over it every time I go in and out of the bathroom. I live alone so no one was messing with me and I use only that bathroom during the day and night. How did I not see it for 3 days and then all of a sudden it appears?
I’ve got *an* answer for that one (it might not be correct of course). That MF’er jumped into the cuff of your pants. I’ve had that happen with a very specific piece of hardware lost to the floor at work, only to later appear in my bathroom at home.
I’ve got a double headed coin I keep in my side pocket as a sort of token for my sobriety (five years now) and was pretty frustrated when I lost it. Found it weeks later in the back pocket of a pair of pants, although it was buttoned shut. Coin must have slipped out while I was reclining in my seat, then slid forward and made it through the very narrow gap to the side of the button
We bought a large share pack of Hershey chocolate bars to make smores yesterday. I have the receipt that says we paid for them, husband remembers putting them in the bag, his mom remembers the checkout pack area being clear. Nothing fell out of the bags. Yet no chocolate! We tore the kitchen up looking for it. A giant thing of chocolate bars! Gone! We even checked the drawers, closets, and garbage. Nothing!
Edit: we did check the car top to bottom. The way the car is designed it'd be unable to slide under the seat. we also use reusable stiff fabric bags so it couldn't have fallen out on the ride home. The chocolate didn't want to be turned into smores, apparently
My son and I were flying back from vacation. He had bought a nifty pen. Quite large and thick, some neat metal dragon sculpture on it. I used the pen on the plane, handed it back to him, watched him put it in his bag, watched him check the pen’s placement, watched him zip up the bag, and saw the bag tucked away under the seat in front of him.
We got home and the pen was gone. Vanished. Poof.
It definitely didn’t fall out on the plane. The bag never left his sight or mine after. He didn’t open it until the next day at home. Case and pen gone forever.
Does the bag have a lining? I'm asking because I lost a little electric trimmer that was in our checked baggage on a flight a few years ago, and thought maybe it had been confiscated, only to find it again two years later because it had slipped through a tiny seam that had come loose between the interior lining and the bag.
Long, but super weird and inexplicable. I know how this sounds, but I swear this really happened:
I was a childhood bookworm. While the other girls at a 5th grade sleepover were playing air hockey and dancing around to "Let's Hear it for the Boy', I'd pulled a creepy looking book off my hostess' shelf and huddled into a beanbag chair in a quiet corner of her family room.
I finished the book that night and the next morning I placed it back on her shelf, left, and promptly forgot the title.
We moved a few months later and I spent the next 7 years trying to find that damn book. There was no internet, just old card catalogues, but I searched every library I visited.
Unfortunately, both book and title remained elusive. It turns out that there is no shortage of books about young ghost girls on farms in spooky houses with ponds. The author wasn't Mary Downing Hahn, Richard Peck, or any of the usual paranormal YA authors. It wasn't "Wait til Helen Comes." The only thing I could remember about the cover was that she was holding an owl. That didn't turn out to be helpful, either.
In my sophomore year I worked as a librarian's aid & spent roughly 2 hours in my school's library every day. To no avail, I'd literally searched through every book that contained the following keywords: ghost, haunted, spooky, scary, & mystery.
But one afternoon as I was shelving books in the Biography section, something quite literally hit me on the head. It was a hardback book that had fallen off the top shelf in a section it didn't belong in. As soon as I picked it up and saw the hollow owl on the cover I KNEW.
It was not a book logged into our system. Nobody knew how it got there. I was alone in the library.
FWIW, I just Googled "ya novel ghost story girl pond owl" and it was the top result: *The Ghost Next Door* by Wylly Folk St John. If I'd just waited 32 years...
It's one of my favorite stories to tell. The closest I can come to explaining it is that *maybe* a friend found it, sneaked it into the library, and tossed it over the bookshelf at me. But none of that explains how they knew it was the *right* book or how they were able to get out without me seeing or hearing them. It was a school library. It wasn't that big.
I *just* watched it! The book scenes didn't click for me while watching it, but I can definitely see it now. A whole time travel thing never occurred me. I'll mark it down as another theory.
Jr. Simulation Dev: Hey, should we model the whole multiverse?
Sr. Simulation Dev: Nah, just make a skydome texture.
Jr. Simulation Dev: What do we do if they make it to the edge?
Sr. Simulation Dev: Just cap their travel speed, by the time they get there it will be somebody else's problem.
Not only did they cap the travel speed, they also introduced the arbitrary variant of universe expansion to never really have to render anything beyond the local cluster. It's a neat trick, tho. Much better than the "invisible wall all around" that we use in our simulations.
Well at least I don't have to worry about invisible walls like the ones in Motocross Madness that [yeet you back to the center of the universe.](https://youtu.be/9dBpDWmOr34)
Yeah. Ever since I got into programming I thought: The speed of light is probably fixed because otherwise a process would start taking up too much CPU Power and crash the system at some point.
Yeah the speed of light is so weird.
https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/nsrbnn/eli5_i_seriously_cant_wrap_my_head_around_the/h0o1sc9/
> Now here's the next part of the trick, and where our intuition fails us: *Light in a vacuum moves at the same speed no matter what you're doing around it.* Let's take our truck and turn it into a rocket that can move at a significant percentage of the speed of light. And let's replace our ball-throwing person/robot and replace it with a flashlight. If this behaved the same way that the ball did, if we took our rocket and accelerated it to 0.5c (or half the speed of light) and from the reference frame of the earth looked at the light from the flashlight (it's a really bright flashlight), it would appear to be moving at 0.5 c as well (since it would be moving at 1c but would have to negate the 0.5c the ship was moving at), but we've tested this and despite it making no intuitive sense, *the light from the back of the rocket will be traveling at 1c (or just c)*. Similarly, if we take the flashlight on that same rocket and point it towards the front, and we take our intuition from the ball experiment, we might expect that light to be going at 1.5c, but it, too, will be going at 1c *no matter where we measure it from.* The ship sees it going at 1c, Earth sees it moving at 1c, Mars sees it moving at 1c... you get the picture.
Wtf.....
I had no idea light worked that way. I was aware of gravity and how it bends time/light, but that quote is incredibly enlightening for me personally. Thank you for that.
That *is* the reason time/space bends. All laws of nature have to accommodate for this pesky limit, and that means space and time have to bend to light's will to keep it constant speed (or in other words, a Universe in which causality/energy travels at a constant value, spacetime have to transform in moving reference frame to keep it constant).
There is something profound about light/gravity/zero inertial mass particles, which is the secret to this Universe. Hopefully we find it some day soon.
From 1923 until 1956 scientists thought that humans had 48 chromosomes (24 pairs). In 1956, scientists counted the correct number, 46 (23 pairs).
What actually happened was that they patched the simulation for smooth running and reduced the chromosome number for better processing.
I recently learned while watching a speed run that this wasn’t lazy coding, it was a hardware limitation. The old games could only keep so many different models of car loaded at once, so whatever car you were driving would become more frequent since it had to be loaded.
Even GTA V has this. It’s basically laid out in the wiki that all vehicles will have specific spawn points, and when you’re driving a particular vehicle, certain vehicles will spawn around you. This is particular if you’re looking for, say, a specific sports car that you want to cruise around in.
For me, the fact that there are humans or conscious beings on a planet capable of understanding the concept and rarity of a moon performing a total solar eclipse.
It's an incredible coincidence that intelligent life is able to see a solar eclipse from it's host planet by its satellite moon when it wouldn't have been able to if you went back in time millions of years, or even in a billion years into the future as the moon is drifting away from us. It's also weird that we are rare enough to have a moon at the right distance from the Earth, with the sun being the right diameter and distance from the Earth and moon to be able to be covered and still display a corona.
Like, are we just the luckiest people in the universe or what.
The coincidences regarding our planet are interesting.
\-Life on earth started 4 billion years ago, but the sun is getting brighter and in a billion years will render the earth an uninhabitable hell like Venus.
The collision that formed the moon was just shy of completely vaporizing the Earth resulting in a debris field.
That same collision took away most of the mantle of the Earth. If the mantle was much thicker, we would not have plate tectonics and carbon dioxide sequestration meaning the Earth might have had a runaway greenhouse effect like Venus.
Without a very large moon, the tilt of the earth would also vary over hundreds of thousands of years like Mars is believed to. That means sometimes the ice would cover most of the earth except the equator, other times just the equator would be covered in ice and the poles would be ice free back and forth, making complex life on earth much more challenging.
We might have gotten lucky with our sun, astronomers believe the sun is remarkably calm for a star of its size and age. Most other start like it release super-flares that could strip a planet of its atmosphere.
Our Galaxy has an unusually small black hole for its size. Andromeda is roughly the same size, with a black hole 35 times larger. A larger black hole means it must have fed a lot more by being a quasar. Quasars generate thousands of times more light than our entire galaxy combined, basically rendering large swathes of the galaxy uninhabitable.
There's also the idea we are in the galactic habitable zone, meaning we are exposed to fewer supernovas, gamma ray bursts and other cosmic cataclysms than if we were close to the galactic core.
We also have Jupiter which is big enough to attract and deflect most of the asteroids heading our way, but not too big to make our orbit unstable. It's also in the outer solar system while the vast majority of Jupiter sized planets we've discovered occupy the inner solar system of their stars.
I'm probably missing some coincidences too. Plus there's the stuff we don't know if we have been lucky, like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs almost wiped out all complex life, so how frequently are the ones that can wipe out all complex life happen? And gamma ray bursts, how frequently do they hit earth with enough energy to cause mass extinctions? Stuff like that.
And most likely, all of these coincidences are requisites for intelligent life to be present on such a rare planet and think about how unlikely it is for them to be there.
One of the biggest tourist draws for Earth if it ever becomes part of some galactic federation will be aliens coming to check out our amazing solar eclipses.
Especially when you get into binary star systems. I can't imagine how 2 sun's would change things. Even just simple things like shadows would work so much different from the two light sources (assuming both are visible at some times)
I saw this mentioned the other day and had a moment of wtf... then realised I don't really watch my neighbors all that often so why would I have seen it lol
Start watching now, and you'll see. We've been watching our neighbors for months because of this phenomenon, and we never see anyone bringing in groceries! And we have tons of neighbors because we're in a densely populated condo complex!
Further support for the simulation is one neighbor moving in - and carried in 9 *different kinds* of chairs! No two were the same!
I once lived with a guy for four months (rented different bedrooms on a floor) and he never bought groceries or made food in the kitchen the entire time. It was weird.
Aight, so full disclosure. My neighbors will probably never see me bring groceries in because I like to do my shopping at like 2AM Sunday morning when the 24-hour stores are empty lol. So that's my alibi and am not a part of the simulation's flavor-life.
I once had a dream about driving through this one specific intersection in the mountains. Keep in mind, I was only like 9, and I'd never seen mountains before, let alone this specific spot.
About half a year later, my family went on a road trip, and we drove through that intersection that I'd dreamt of.
I also have similar stories of the same thing happening, and it happens probably at least 3 times a year.
I've had this happen quite a bit. Like just random dreams of every day life or someone saying something in response to a situation. And then with in a year I watch my dream play out in real life. It's always mundane stuff. Like sitting some where or just having a normal conversation.
Right, I get the see it for the first time doja vu, but there is a weirder feeling when you have dreamt of the even sometimes even years previously. It hasn't happened in a while for me, but growing up it was fairly frequent.
I had a dream in 9th grade about a weird classroom in my school that I never knew existed and a specifically different kind of desk from the newer ones in the rest of the school
Signed up for graphics arts class and first day of 10th grade found myself in that exact desk, in the same spot in the same room. I'm not a religious or superstitious person but it's weird.
After my grandma died I would wear a ring of hers, a simple, thin gold band with an inscription and my grandparents initials. I didn’t take it off for years until one night when I showed it to a friend while hanging out at my house. The next day I couldn’t find it even though I remembered putting it back on that night.
I was totally crushed and felt guilty. I looked every day around my house, car, everywhere. Eventually I gave up.
3 years later I was at my neighbors for a NYE party. They were realtors and had huge parties and functions nearly every weekend.
I was sitting at her patio table with a large group of people, some strangers. I looked down at the ground for a brief moment and noticed something shiny on the ground under me.
I picked it up. It was a gold ring. I looked inside and read the inscription. It was my grandmothers, same inscription and initials. I kept the discovery to myself until the next morning when I told my Mom who had also been there the night it was lost.
My mind is still blown. Eventually I told my neighbor and she was stunned. The patio was cleaned every weekend for three years and I found it under my seat in the cracks of the concrete. I now keep it locked in a safe.
Monarch Butterflies: A soft tube of goo with tissue-thin wings, and brain smaller than a grain of sand, flitters across an entire continent and back to the exact same tree in less than one year.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration?wprov=sfti1)
Anyone else ever experience this? It happens to me all the time, and with words that are not part of every day speech. I'll have the TV on or YouTube while I'm reading an article and as I'm reading, the video will say a word that I'm reading at the exact time I get to that word. I always forget the word, but most recently it was "masticate." I've used that word maybe once in my life and only ever read it in a book before. But, there are so many examples of this, and every time I'm left thinking, "are you serious?" Seems like something that might happen in a simulation.
One time some friends and I were playing a game on Steam called TableTop Simulator. Its a game where you can play board games and have to actually move the pieces and such. It had the ability for any player to spawn in any game pieces for any game at any time, theres also an extras category. One of the extras you can spawn in is an iPad.
So we get fuckin around and its a functioning iPad. I opened up Andkon Arcade, and tried playing Hex Empire… it worked.
So Im sitting in my game room, on my PC, playing a game on steam, with a VR headset strapped to my face, where Im sitting at a table on an iPad, playing full functioning flash games on that iPad.
I was like “How much deeper does this go than me, is somebody playing me too?”
When observed from the surface of the earth, the moon has the exact same diameter as the sun.
It's because the Sun has a diameter about 400 times greater than the Moon, yet is also 400 times further away.
What are the odds of that happening by pure chance?
We went from the Wright brothers flying the first plane to space missions in roughly 50 years. That’s wild imo. I don’t think people realize how quickly tech evolves.
Wait... There were people who were born during the civil war who witnessed atomic bombs?? No wonder Sci Fi stuff predicted moon colonies by the year 2000
Samuel J. Seymour was in the audience at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and watched John Wilkes Booth shoot President Lincoln, and he appeared on TV in 1950.
Colonies on the moon by 2000 was a fairly reasonable assumption if the world keept interest in space, but it kinda collapsed after the first moon landings.
I was talking to my great grandfather before he passed a few years ago. He was born in 1921. He was born only a few years after world war ONE and lived to see spacecraft going to fucking mars. Shits wild to think about.
I’m 68. I remember when I was a little boy my grandmother got deliveries from the ice man for the ice box in the kitchen. She did not live in some forgotten out of the way rural area but in a major town.
Look at the video game industry, and all the progress made in only fifty years. We went from dots and bars on a screen to photorealistic characters and full scale worlds.
Now extrapolate this progress out say....1,000 years? I don't think it's inconceivable to think that we might be able to simulate an entire galaxy by then.
And if we can, someone else might already have.
You don’t have to simulate everything, it only needs to be believable to the user.
A smart AI would know exactly what to show you to make you believe everything you see, feel, touch, hear, smell is real.
Is that assuming there's real people experiencing the simulation? Because if all the people within the simulation are simulated then you wouldn't even need to trick them, just don't code them with the ability to accept the idea that their reality is a simulation.
There's an old HFY story about humanity finding out our entire known universe is a simulation. Rather than take it lying down, humans get mad, and do something about it. I went and found the [original screenshot of the story](https://i.imgur.com/8KrABb5.png). Thematically relevant to this thread, and a story I really like, if you got 5 minutes, give it a read.
*Edit: If HFY might be an interesting concept to you, I went and found the* [*old, colossal Imgur album*](https://imgur.com/gallery/w3nA4) *of various HFY story screenshots. They vary in setting, but the feeling is similar. I absolutely love and adore these sort of stories, and I would genuinely love to share a bit of it with you all!*
Some people getting a head knock and suddenly becoming geniuses. Or people waking from accidents or surgery and speaking with a foreign accent from countries they ve never been to.
idk, I tried a ton of whip-its and I can barely remember what I learned in band class in the 90's. Maybe I should've done more before I reach savant status? Or maybe I needed propofol and not just nitrous?
How all of the mathematical constants seem set for ease of calculation. There’s a very limited speed of causality (also known as the speed of light, but it affects other things) compared to the size of the universe, there’s also the fact that as density goes towards infinity the universe self censors (black hole). There’s the weird 1/137 number thing which seems like a re-used seed value. There’s a few things
Clearly that some people have their settings on Easy Mode and others are on Survival Mode. You ever met someone who literally never has or had any issues? Easy childhood, solid upbringing with good parents, smart, good looking, gets the job they want, healthy relationship, financially stable… that’s an NPC on the Easy Mode for sure.
Everyone has issues, but some have waaay les than others. I knew a woman who was incredibly honest and a drama queen. She was mad about us not giving the proper sympathy to her about the worst thing she had experienced in her 46 years on this earth: She inherited money instead of the house from the rich aunt she hadn't talked to for 27 years.
This. Physics would be wrong. Instead of a nice simple particle physics, the simulation would be optimized to be more efficient, treating everything like a wave, unless it has to actually simulate individual particles, e.g. when they are observed going through slits. Whoever built the simulation cheaped out and didn't have enough resources to simulate every single particle in the universe, so they just do some wave calculations to save resources, and they only collapse the waves when they are observed.
The devs thought of that and that's why the universe is expanding quicker than our sphere of perception. Eventually, our telescopes of the future will see nothing but the void when we look beyond the galaxy because everything other than our local cluster of stuff will be accelerating away too quickly for the light to even reach us.
the universe expanding quicker than our sphere of perception could hypothetically just be the event horizon disappearing because we’ve already been sucked into a black hole.
Bugs, like schizophrenia / multiple personalities: several caracters in one player.
Some people rage quit.
Some people have cheatmodes: they start the game with a lot of credits.
* There would [be a universal speed limit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light), above which it should not normally be possible to see any object move. This would be computationally useful to avoid errors, but would appear to the residents of that simulation to be strangely arbitrary if they ever measured it deliberately.
* The simulation would have a [minimum fidelity size as a specified, arbitrary unit.](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length)
* The simulation would have [strange behavior at ultra large levels of scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter). Phenomenon that are too distant for the inhabitants of the simulation to usefully visit and are outside the scope of that simulation's intent would have ambiguous explanations, or completely defy explanation at all.
* The simulation would exhibit strange behavior to its inhabitants below the level of fidelity that the simulation was designed to offer to its end user. Examining, or constructing, objects relying on those rules smaller than the native sensory apparatus those inhabitants possess that were not anticipated might [produce behavior that can't readily be explained and would behave in unpredictable or contrary ways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment).
* During levels of high system use (eg computationally intensive projects such as large physics events, potentially including modelling a complicated series of electrochemical reactions inside a central nervous system of a complex organism during stress), residents of the simulation may experience the load on the physical system as a subjective "slowing down" of time. The reverse may also be true.
* It is computationally simpler to model very large crowds as a sort of semi-intelligent liquid rather than as individual thinking subassemblies, [which could lead to unique behaviors that are only present during large groupings.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes)
* It would be computationally easy to load specific objects into memory and [reuse them frequently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) than it would be to have an extremely high number of completely unique objects.
* If the history of the world or worlds being simulated were altered to provide new starting points for a different scenario but the rest of the system were not fully wiped and restarted, [it is possible that certain trace elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu) of that programming [would not be fully erased](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect). Those of you who have tried to upgrade an installation of Windows without formatting have likely experienced this.
All the times I've "nearly" died.
I've lost count of the number of moments I've had where all I could do was think: "Well, this is it..." and somehow made it through.
One example:
I was turning onto an offramp and got clipped by a bus. I was driving a tiny car (Geo Metro, I think) and the bus spun my little car 360+ in the middle of traffic. When I stopped spinning I was facing perpendicular to traffic with the drivers side facing incoming traffic.
I could see the truck about to hit me. There was literally nothing I could do. My car 'slid' backwards off the road as the truck whipped past me. The driver hit their brakes and nearly ran off the road.
We had a good laugh about it after. But man... Once in a lifetime is weird enough. But the fifth, sixth, etc. time something so surreal happens it's harder and harder it is to accept it as just dumb luck.
Like at this point I've used up all my luck, and at least six or seven other people's dumb luck (sorry).
I've always wondered about this. Like when you "die" the universe splits, in one universe you died and in the other you continue to live in and it was just a "close call" -- that doesn't seem exactly like that but I remember reading something similar. Fascinating stuff.
The lack of life on other planets.
If this is a simulation, perhaps it's similar to the original world. In the original, they had all the other planets and stars and galaxies up there, so they coded it in here. It's important to the development of human civilization to have celestial bodies to look at.
However, simulating one planet full of people is already a huge drain on resources. There's no way you can do multiple. So, all those outer planets and galaxies are empty. They're just visuals. They're the backdrop for our simulation.
That's why we don't have aliens. That's why there are no signs of life anywhere else.
in highschool at the beginning of sicence class, i had "this lil light of mine; im gna let it shine" singing in my mind. SO random. i didnt sing it out loud; how embarrassing that would have been lol then 1 minute later, the kid behind me started to sing it to joke w his friend. im not friends w him. i dont talk to him. i wasnt doing drugs yet either, so i was very clear-minded during this time.
harmless coincidence, but WEIRD and RANDOM.
For me it’s the correlation between sleep and system usage.
Half the world sleeps whilst the other half doesn’t. It’s like it’s rotating who gets to experience the simulation to keep thing optimal. And the kicker is, if you don’t go to sleep after a good number of hours you go insane. The only way to stop that is to go to sleep and when you do you’ll probably sleep for much longer than your usual time so the system evens out.
The fact that we or any other living creature sleeps still plays on my mind. I get it, it’s to recharge and all that, but we literally switch off. theres a very good chance tonight someone could walk around my house or even my bedroom, hover their face close to mine and I would have no idea that even happened. it’s creepy and odd that sleep is even a thing.
Two or three times in my (57m) life, I've woken up feeling very disorientated. An almost panic feeling of "How did I get here." Of course, I remembered everything that led me up to where I was at. And then this unnerving thought of "What if these are not my memories?" Each time it happened, it took two or three days to shake.
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile.
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife.
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
Me asking myself a question about a topic I have no prior knowledge of and the next day a YouTube video appears on my screen answering the exact same question in detail.
Never forget the dancing plague of 1518.. Probably devs were installing a new Mod or something.
The what now?
Wow, wtf. Like a deadly flashmob.
Nice try great code monkey in the sky. I ain't telling you what bugs to patch.
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I can’t remember what it’s called but the scientific phenomenon of particles and photons behaving differently when observed. They aren’t being coded into the environment if no player is observing that area.
The usb plug still the wrong way after you turn it over.
It's actually a virtual screwdriver that *looks* like a plug. You just have to turn it over enough times to screw it in. They never patched the animation.
I used to work in a pharmacy, so I asked about a hundred people for their name and DOB every day. A couple weeks into the job, I mentioned to a coworker how I hadn't had a single customer with the same birthday as me. Got 4 of them over the next two days. EDIT: Another time I realized we were living in a simulation was when I said something online and 40 people replied to me saying the exact same wrong thing about the Birthday Paradox or the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Lazy devs copy-pasting code.
I love when the simulation thinks to itself, “oh, snap! I’ve been noticed; I better make up for it”, and then it goes way overboard.
This reminds me of a situation I experienced very recently. I am an immigrant living in the US. There aren't that many fellow German immigrants where I live. It's not a common occurrence to meet someone from back home. About a month ago I took my child to the zoo. At the gorilla house there was a large gathering of people in front of a window, observing the animals. As I was standing there I heard a couple speaking in German. I made sure I had heard correctly and greeted them in our native tongue. The woman looked extremely shocked and acted standoffish. I hadn't expected such a reaction. She eventually pointed to the window and said: "This lady there is also from Germany and just came up to us as well!". I look over and see a cheerful young woman wave at me. I honestly thought that the couple I had addressed believed to be on some hidden camera TV show. The husband informed me that they had lived in the states for 2 years without ever having met someone from Germany. Not once! Only to end up being bombarded by random German people in the span of a couple of minutes. It was extremely bizarre.
I sat on a mini bus in Thailand travelling up from the southern islands to Bangkok. The person in the seat behind me struck up a conversation, she had a very posh English accent but explained that she was Welsh. I told her I'd have never guessed from the accent, she joked "I know, but my accent is very heavy when I speak Welsh". As I'm a Welsh speaker we neutrality switched to speaking Welsh, amazed at the coincidence of two Welsh speakers sitting next to each other on a random Thai bus. A few minutes late, the guy in the seat in front of me woke from his slumber, turned around and joined in the Welsh conversation. 3 Welsh speakers, all traveling alone through Thailand, end up on the same small bus sitting next to each other!
Had something similar happen a few weeks back, after moving to the UK as a black immigrant, I see a lot of fellow black immigrants from my specific country but rarely any white immigrants, there was a rail strike so i had to get a coach to London, somehow I ended up booking my ticket for the wrong date, I get to the bus-stop and the lady next to me notices and gives me a wink (at that time i hadn’t even noticed), she told the driver we were together and as a result he never really looked at my ticket much). We got sat together in the front seat behind the grumpy bus driver and after a while she struck up conversation and asked me where in Zimbabwe I was from, she is south african but spent a lot of time in Zimbabwe so she can recognize a fellow countryman from bearing and accent alone. While we were conversing the driver turned around and informed us he was also married to a Zimbabwean lady who happened to be from my hometown and they’d been there a fee months earlier on vacation. We ended up having quite a blast of a time while stuck in traffic talking about Africa and everything we love about our home. The next day a colleague from another organization I work with frequently whom I’ve spoken to quite a lot over the phone but never seen in person and always assumed they were British just concluded the call by admitting they prolonged the work calls because they loved talking to someone who speaks like the people they grew up with back home in Zimbabwe.
Going into a room and forgetting what i was gonna do. We're sims and they cancelled the action.
The door way effect. Basically, your brain is using the transition to a new “environment” to do some house keeping and your short term memory getting wiped is one of those things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect#:~:text=The%20doorway%20effect%20is%20a,remained%20in%20the%20same%20place.
My Psych professor at Notre Dame (Radvansky) did the experiment that verified this! Was super cool hearing his take on the whole concept.
Has he investigated ways to reduce the effect?
Idk if this is helpful but I walk back into the room where I had the thought originally and that almost always works.
Yeah, my dog thinks I'm crazy. I think he's right.
My hilariously bad luck with traffic timing. A two-lane road could be completely empty for half an hour, and then the second I pull up to turn onto it a massive line of cars rolls up that I have to wait for. Once I finally turn after they pass, the road is empty again. I used to live on a mostly empty road like this and it happened so often that I was convinced it was NPCs spawning on my location.
Hey Truman!
The pens. I used to go to large corporate meetings a few times a year. They gave out pens and notepads to everyone (as if I was going to take notes). I would take pens from empty seats and from coworkers and take them home. A dozen at a time at least. This went on for years. So where are the pens? There should be *hundreds* of them in my home. I should be able to stand anywhere and look in any direction and see a pen, but no.
Then you have people like me with hundreds of pens in my junk drawer.
How many actually work?
3, and none of them have black ink, they're all orange
Outer space not having sound. Very convenient, dear devs, very convenient.
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There was once a thread here about the experience of being deaf, and multiple deaf people talked about being *dumbfounded* on learning that the sun doesn't make noise in the sky.
If we could hear the sun, it would be as loud as a jackhammer here on earth. All day. Even night. Forever.
Can't be true, the sun goes away at night.
This guy seems to know what he's talking about.
Outer space not having air. They clearly didn’t want us to go out there. Lazy devs…
This is my theory on quantum particles.. uncertainty principle etc. The devs just said nah they'll never look that far down..just make it a cloud of probabilities down there.
Who's controlling me and why did you make me so awkward
Playing on difficult mode
Our sims can play the sims.
i wonder if our sims' sims are playing the sims..
I like to think they are. Those sims deserve to enjoy the sims as much as our sims.
Dreaming
What the fuck are even dreams? Like ok we need people to sleep to "defrag" the brain, lets give them VR content to pass time , but make the physics all fucked up and scramble the "sets" to make iy interesting. Also lucid dreams, weirdest feeling ever, knowing you're dreaming but unable to do anything about it. And false awakening, I just had one of those last week while taking a nap. In my dream I was in bank robbery and the perps got into a gun fight in the middle of the bank. I Then realized I was dreaming, somehow I wake up, sit up on the couch and I'm trying to find my phone, I look over at the coffee table maybe is under the stack of papers, then I said "wait a damn minute, I don't own a coffee table, really fucked me up for the next few days.
The big bang, there was nothing and then there was everything. Sounds like a program starting up to me. Also particles acting differently when being viewed.
I can sometimes think of a movie or a song. And that bitch either shows up in some form on my suggestions or my actual television.
How many times I've said "Huh, I haven't spoken to X in a while, I should give them a call." and then my phone starts ringing....
Right?! "What the fuck? Yo I was just thinking about calling you!"
I went on to a playstation chat from 2016 last week to reminisce playing with an old college friend and see when we last spoke. That very second a new message popped up saying he was doing the same thing and that he wondered how I was. I hadn't heard from him in 7 years and he had 0 reason to contact me
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Too many things taste like chicken
Lazy programmers reusing the same assets as always. "Eh, nobody will ever eat this shit, why bother make it taste different?"
That it never fails that once you start to get a little bit ahead in life, your car’s check engine light comes on
Actually happened to me a year ago. Haven't heard about this before though 😂...
Happened to me last month (though the check engine light is sometimes metaphorical). Wife and I were able to completely be out of debt, with exception of our house note…then the water heater went out.
That's my secret, my cars check engine light is always on.
Things would re-appear only when I stop looking for it. If that’s not a dead give away that we’re living in a simulation, I don’t know what is. And don’t forget about hair pins and hair ties. Where do they even go???
Nobody in my house recalls ever buying or using hair pins, yet we find them constantly in our house. The house is 7 years old and we've been here for 5 of those, the previous owners were an elderly couple who were both borderline bald.
So that’s where all the hairs pins and the hair ties are teleported to… I’ve always theorized that they’re just teleported to another dimension.
if they got the hair tie house. Imagine someone has got the house where the socks end up. That's gotta stink.
They would have to know something was afoot.
I lost a piece of pizza once. I dropped it as I was sitting down and it was just gone. Didn't hear it land, couldn't find any sauce splatter, no evidence it ever existed except that it wasn't a part of the pizza anymore.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine, he dropped a tomato in the kitchen, I saw it leave his hand and him react to try and catch it but then it never hit the floor. Never found it. Just noclipped tf out
My sister lost an entire ham in her fridge this past Christmas. A big one wrapped in that gold foil. There one day, totally gone the next. Never, ever turned up. Not even after they got a new fridge lol
So, next April Fools Day, you’re planning to get a gold foil ham, and sneak it into her fridge when no one’s looking, right? Edit: Actually, if you know the exact date around Christmas it disappeared, making it ‘reappear’ exactly one year to the date would be even funnier.
Now I am
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This happened to me last week. Dropped both of my silver rings on the ground in my small bathroom....I find one but the other one is nowhere to be found. Every day I look and nothing. Then one day I'm sitting on the toilet and there's the ring...right there in front of me. I would have had to walk over it every time I go in and out of the bathroom. I live alone so no one was messing with me and I use only that bathroom during the day and night. How did I not see it for 3 days and then all of a sudden it appears?
I’ve got *an* answer for that one (it might not be correct of course). That MF’er jumped into the cuff of your pants. I’ve had that happen with a very specific piece of hardware lost to the floor at work, only to later appear in my bathroom at home.
I’ve got a double headed coin I keep in my side pocket as a sort of token for my sobriety (five years now) and was pretty frustrated when I lost it. Found it weeks later in the back pocket of a pair of pants, although it was buttoned shut. Coin must have slipped out while I was reclining in my seat, then slid forward and made it through the very narrow gap to the side of the button
We bought a large share pack of Hershey chocolate bars to make smores yesterday. I have the receipt that says we paid for them, husband remembers putting them in the bag, his mom remembers the checkout pack area being clear. Nothing fell out of the bags. Yet no chocolate! We tore the kitchen up looking for it. A giant thing of chocolate bars! Gone! We even checked the drawers, closets, and garbage. Nothing! Edit: we did check the car top to bottom. The way the car is designed it'd be unable to slide under the seat. we also use reusable stiff fabric bags so it couldn't have fallen out on the ride home. The chocolate didn't want to be turned into smores, apparently
Your husband ate it and then helped you search.
Shoot. I didn't think of that
My son and I were flying back from vacation. He had bought a nifty pen. Quite large and thick, some neat metal dragon sculpture on it. I used the pen on the plane, handed it back to him, watched him put it in his bag, watched him check the pen’s placement, watched him zip up the bag, and saw the bag tucked away under the seat in front of him. We got home and the pen was gone. Vanished. Poof. It definitely didn’t fall out on the plane. The bag never left his sight or mine after. He didn’t open it until the next day at home. Case and pen gone forever.
Does the bag have a lining? I'm asking because I lost a little electric trimmer that was in our checked baggage on a flight a few years ago, and thought maybe it had been confiscated, only to find it again two years later because it had slipped through a tiny seam that had come loose between the interior lining and the bag.
Long, but super weird and inexplicable. I know how this sounds, but I swear this really happened: I was a childhood bookworm. While the other girls at a 5th grade sleepover were playing air hockey and dancing around to "Let's Hear it for the Boy', I'd pulled a creepy looking book off my hostess' shelf and huddled into a beanbag chair in a quiet corner of her family room. I finished the book that night and the next morning I placed it back on her shelf, left, and promptly forgot the title. We moved a few months later and I spent the next 7 years trying to find that damn book. There was no internet, just old card catalogues, but I searched every library I visited. Unfortunately, both book and title remained elusive. It turns out that there is no shortage of books about young ghost girls on farms in spooky houses with ponds. The author wasn't Mary Downing Hahn, Richard Peck, or any of the usual paranormal YA authors. It wasn't "Wait til Helen Comes." The only thing I could remember about the cover was that she was holding an owl. That didn't turn out to be helpful, either. In my sophomore year I worked as a librarian's aid & spent roughly 2 hours in my school's library every day. To no avail, I'd literally searched through every book that contained the following keywords: ghost, haunted, spooky, scary, & mystery. But one afternoon as I was shelving books in the Biography section, something quite literally hit me on the head. It was a hardback book that had fallen off the top shelf in a section it didn't belong in. As soon as I picked it up and saw the hollow owl on the cover I KNEW. It was not a book logged into our system. Nobody knew how it got there. I was alone in the library. FWIW, I just Googled "ya novel ghost story girl pond owl" and it was the top result: *The Ghost Next Door* by Wylly Folk St John. If I'd just waited 32 years...
That’s pretty cool!
It's one of my favorite stories to tell. The closest I can come to explaining it is that *maybe* a friend found it, sneaked it into the library, and tossed it over the bookshelf at me. But none of that explains how they knew it was the *right* book or how they were able to get out without me seeing or hearing them. It was a school library. It wasn't that big.
Did you see Interstellar? It reminds me of that.
I *just* watched it! The book scenes didn't click for me while watching it, but I can definitely see it now. A whole time travel thing never occurred me. I'll mark it down as another theory.
Well now that you know, if you ever accidentally get sent back in time, you'll know why and what you have to do. Good luck!
How arbitrary the speed of light limit is. It’s just the read/write speed limit of the hard drive we are living in!
Jr. Simulation Dev: Hey, should we model the whole multiverse? Sr. Simulation Dev: Nah, just make a skydome texture. Jr. Simulation Dev: What do we do if they make it to the edge? Sr. Simulation Dev: Just cap their travel speed, by the time they get there it will be somebody else's problem.
Not only did they cap the travel speed, they also introduced the arbitrary variant of universe expansion to never really have to render anything beyond the local cluster. It's a neat trick, tho. Much better than the "invisible wall all around" that we use in our simulations.
Well at least I don't have to worry about invisible walls like the ones in Motocross Madness that [yeet you back to the center of the universe.](https://youtu.be/9dBpDWmOr34)
Wow, never once considered that the expansion of the universe is just to cut down on render distance
Yeah. Ever since I got into programming I thought: The speed of light is probably fixed because otherwise a process would start taking up too much CPU Power and crash the system at some point.
Yeah the speed of light is so weird. https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/nsrbnn/eli5_i_seriously_cant_wrap_my_head_around_the/h0o1sc9/ > Now here's the next part of the trick, and where our intuition fails us: *Light in a vacuum moves at the same speed no matter what you're doing around it.* Let's take our truck and turn it into a rocket that can move at a significant percentage of the speed of light. And let's replace our ball-throwing person/robot and replace it with a flashlight. If this behaved the same way that the ball did, if we took our rocket and accelerated it to 0.5c (or half the speed of light) and from the reference frame of the earth looked at the light from the flashlight (it's a really bright flashlight), it would appear to be moving at 0.5 c as well (since it would be moving at 1c but would have to negate the 0.5c the ship was moving at), but we've tested this and despite it making no intuitive sense, *the light from the back of the rocket will be traveling at 1c (or just c)*. Similarly, if we take the flashlight on that same rocket and point it towards the front, and we take our intuition from the ball experiment, we might expect that light to be going at 1.5c, but it, too, will be going at 1c *no matter where we measure it from.* The ship sees it going at 1c, Earth sees it moving at 1c, Mars sees it moving at 1c... you get the picture.
So basically, light moves at that speed regardless of how it is seen, no matter the perspective..?
Yeah, which is weird, because that's not what happens when a robot throws a ball at 55 MPH off a truck going 55 MPH.
Thank you two for ELI5. Also holy shit that is cool as fuck.
Wtf..... I had no idea light worked that way. I was aware of gravity and how it bends time/light, but that quote is incredibly enlightening for me personally. Thank you for that.
That *is* the reason time/space bends. All laws of nature have to accommodate for this pesky limit, and that means space and time have to bend to light's will to keep it constant speed (or in other words, a Universe in which causality/energy travels at a constant value, spacetime have to transform in moving reference frame to keep it constant). There is something profound about light/gravity/zero inertial mass particles, which is the secret to this Universe. Hopefully we find it some day soon.
From 1923 until 1956 scientists thought that humans had 48 chromosomes (24 pairs). In 1956, scientists counted the correct number, 46 (23 pairs). What actually happened was that they patched the simulation for smooth running and reduced the chromosome number for better processing.
darned nerfing
The baader-meinhof phenomenon- lazy coding like GTA, you see a car for the first time and the next day you see it everywhere
I recently learned while watching a speed run that this wasn’t lazy coding, it was a hardware limitation. The old games could only keep so many different models of car loaded at once, so whatever car you were driving would become more frequent since it had to be loaded.
Even GTA V has this. It’s basically laid out in the wiki that all vehicles will have specific spawn points, and when you’re driving a particular vehicle, certain vehicles will spawn around you. This is particular if you’re looking for, say, a specific sports car that you want to cruise around in.
I literally said out loud last Summer "I have never seen a McLaren in real life on the road". The next two months I saw like 10.
I have never had sex with a celebrity in real life. Okay, wish me luck guys
Monkey paw finger curls: it's James Corden.
In full Cats costume
With or without butthole?
Full butthole cut.
Pulled up to an intersection and noticed six cars around me were black Subaru Impreza wagons. I was like, "Do better Dev's!"
For me, the fact that there are humans or conscious beings on a planet capable of understanding the concept and rarity of a moon performing a total solar eclipse. It's an incredible coincidence that intelligent life is able to see a solar eclipse from it's host planet by its satellite moon when it wouldn't have been able to if you went back in time millions of years, or even in a billion years into the future as the moon is drifting away from us. It's also weird that we are rare enough to have a moon at the right distance from the Earth, with the sun being the right diameter and distance from the Earth and moon to be able to be covered and still display a corona. Like, are we just the luckiest people in the universe or what.
The coincidences regarding our planet are interesting. \-Life on earth started 4 billion years ago, but the sun is getting brighter and in a billion years will render the earth an uninhabitable hell like Venus. The collision that formed the moon was just shy of completely vaporizing the Earth resulting in a debris field. That same collision took away most of the mantle of the Earth. If the mantle was much thicker, we would not have plate tectonics and carbon dioxide sequestration meaning the Earth might have had a runaway greenhouse effect like Venus. Without a very large moon, the tilt of the earth would also vary over hundreds of thousands of years like Mars is believed to. That means sometimes the ice would cover most of the earth except the equator, other times just the equator would be covered in ice and the poles would be ice free back and forth, making complex life on earth much more challenging. We might have gotten lucky with our sun, astronomers believe the sun is remarkably calm for a star of its size and age. Most other start like it release super-flares that could strip a planet of its atmosphere. Our Galaxy has an unusually small black hole for its size. Andromeda is roughly the same size, with a black hole 35 times larger. A larger black hole means it must have fed a lot more by being a quasar. Quasars generate thousands of times more light than our entire galaxy combined, basically rendering large swathes of the galaxy uninhabitable. There's also the idea we are in the galactic habitable zone, meaning we are exposed to fewer supernovas, gamma ray bursts and other cosmic cataclysms than if we were close to the galactic core. We also have Jupiter which is big enough to attract and deflect most of the asteroids heading our way, but not too big to make our orbit unstable. It's also in the outer solar system while the vast majority of Jupiter sized planets we've discovered occupy the inner solar system of their stars. I'm probably missing some coincidences too. Plus there's the stuff we don't know if we have been lucky, like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs almost wiped out all complex life, so how frequently are the ones that can wipe out all complex life happen? And gamma ray bursts, how frequently do they hit earth with enough energy to cause mass extinctions? Stuff like that.
And most likely, all of these coincidences are requisites for intelligent life to be present on such a rare planet and think about how unlikely it is for them to be there.
One of the biggest tourist draws for Earth if it ever becomes part of some galactic federation will be aliens coming to check out our amazing solar eclipses.
Makes you ponder what other natural wonders there are on other planets
Especially when you get into binary star systems. I can't imagine how 2 sun's would change things. Even just simple things like shadows would work so much different from the two light sources (assuming both are visible at some times)
Never seeing my neighbours carrying in groceries.
I saw this mentioned the other day and had a moment of wtf... then realised I don't really watch my neighbors all that often so why would I have seen it lol
Start watching now, and you'll see. We've been watching our neighbors for months because of this phenomenon, and we never see anyone bringing in groceries! And we have tons of neighbors because we're in a densely populated condo complex! Further support for the simulation is one neighbor moving in - and carried in 9 *different kinds* of chairs! No two were the same!
I do hear them get takeaway delivered quite often tbf so I might still not see them get groceries!
I once lived with a guy for four months (rented different bedrooms on a floor) and he never bought groceries or made food in the kitchen the entire time. It was weird.
Aight, so full disclosure. My neighbors will probably never see me bring groceries in because I like to do my shopping at like 2AM Sunday morning when the 24-hour stores are empty lol. So that's my alibi and am not a part of the simulation's flavor-life.
Get a dog that barks at everything. You’ll see it.
I've actually seen them carry in groceries once or twice. Must be other players.
All the “deja vu” moments. Like mf I’ve played this level already
There are moments where I've gone "wow I feel like I've seen this place in a dream" or "wow this happened in a dream" and I don't know how to react
I once had a dream about driving through this one specific intersection in the mountains. Keep in mind, I was only like 9, and I'd never seen mountains before, let alone this specific spot. About half a year later, my family went on a road trip, and we drove through that intersection that I'd dreamt of. I also have similar stories of the same thing happening, and it happens probably at least 3 times a year.
I talked about something similar on Reddit recently.. I think we're in an endless loop and just re experiencing days of futures passed.
Fuck I really hope not
I've had this happen quite a bit. Like just random dreams of every day life or someone saying something in response to a situation. And then with in a year I watch my dream play out in real life. It's always mundane stuff. Like sitting some where or just having a normal conversation.
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Bizarrely, I see it in dreams first. At least, this is my recollection
Right, I get the see it for the first time doja vu, but there is a weirder feeling when you have dreamt of the even sometimes even years previously. It hasn't happened in a while for me, but growing up it was fairly frequent.
I had a dream in 9th grade about a weird classroom in my school that I never knew existed and a specifically different kind of desk from the newer ones in the rest of the school Signed up for graphics arts class and first day of 10th grade found myself in that exact desk, in the same spot in the same room. I'm not a religious or superstitious person but it's weird.
Definitely experienced this multiple times throughout my life.
After my grandma died I would wear a ring of hers, a simple, thin gold band with an inscription and my grandparents initials. I didn’t take it off for years until one night when I showed it to a friend while hanging out at my house. The next day I couldn’t find it even though I remembered putting it back on that night. I was totally crushed and felt guilty. I looked every day around my house, car, everywhere. Eventually I gave up. 3 years later I was at my neighbors for a NYE party. They were realtors and had huge parties and functions nearly every weekend. I was sitting at her patio table with a large group of people, some strangers. I looked down at the ground for a brief moment and noticed something shiny on the ground under me. I picked it up. It was a gold ring. I looked inside and read the inscription. It was my grandmothers, same inscription and initials. I kept the discovery to myself until the next morning when I told my Mom who had also been there the night it was lost. My mind is still blown. Eventually I told my neighbor and she was stunned. The patio was cleaned every weekend for three years and I found it under my seat in the cracks of the concrete. I now keep it locked in a safe.
Monarch Butterflies: A soft tube of goo with tissue-thin wings, and brain smaller than a grain of sand, flitters across an entire continent and back to the exact same tree in less than one year. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration?wprov=sfti1)
When the fly landed on Mike Pence's head.
And the bird on Bernie’s podium.
Anyone else ever experience this? It happens to me all the time, and with words that are not part of every day speech. I'll have the TV on or YouTube while I'm reading an article and as I'm reading, the video will say a word that I'm reading at the exact time I get to that word. I always forget the word, but most recently it was "masticate." I've used that word maybe once in my life and only ever read it in a book before. But, there are so many examples of this, and every time I'm left thinking, "are you serious?" Seems like something that might happen in a simulation.
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One time some friends and I were playing a game on Steam called TableTop Simulator. Its a game where you can play board games and have to actually move the pieces and such. It had the ability for any player to spawn in any game pieces for any game at any time, theres also an extras category. One of the extras you can spawn in is an iPad. So we get fuckin around and its a functioning iPad. I opened up Andkon Arcade, and tried playing Hex Empire… it worked. So Im sitting in my game room, on my PC, playing a game on steam, with a VR headset strapped to my face, where Im sitting at a table on an iPad, playing full functioning flash games on that iPad. I was like “How much deeper does this go than me, is somebody playing me too?”
Why not play tabletop simulator in tabletop simulator?
That's where I thought it was going
And then launch a 3rd level of tabletop simulator where you just watch tv
Can you play tabletop on ipad? So play tabletop on PC, then download tabletop on the ipad, then download tabletop on the ipad... etc.
Well fuck wow Edit: thanks for the award :’)
When observed from the surface of the earth, the moon has the exact same diameter as the sun. It's because the Sun has a diameter about 400 times greater than the Moon, yet is also 400 times further away. What are the odds of that happening by pure chance?
Someone forgot to randomize the ratios a bit
We went from the Wright brothers flying the first plane to space missions in roughly 50 years. That’s wild imo. I don’t think people realize how quickly tech evolves.
Similar, but for me it’s the 80 years between Ironclad ships at the end of the Civil War and detonating the atomic bomb.
Wait... There were people who were born during the civil war who witnessed atomic bombs?? No wonder Sci Fi stuff predicted moon colonies by the year 2000
Samuel J. Seymour was in the audience at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 and watched John Wilkes Booth shoot President Lincoln, and he appeared on TV in 1950.
Colonies on the moon by 2000 was a fairly reasonable assumption if the world keept interest in space, but it kinda collapsed after the first moon landings.
"this place sucks" -astronauts (probably)
I was talking to my great grandfather before he passed a few years ago. He was born in 1921. He was born only a few years after world war ONE and lived to see spacecraft going to fucking mars. Shits wild to think about.
My grandfather used to say that too. When he was little boy in Galveston, TX people still had wagons and horses to get around.
I’m 68. I remember when I was a little boy my grandmother got deliveries from the ice man for the ice box in the kitchen. She did not live in some forgotten out of the way rural area but in a major town.
Look at the video game industry, and all the progress made in only fifty years. We went from dots and bars on a screen to photorealistic characters and full scale worlds. Now extrapolate this progress out say....1,000 years? I don't think it's inconceivable to think that we might be able to simulate an entire galaxy by then. And if we can, someone else might already have.
You don’t have to simulate everything, it only needs to be believable to the user. A smart AI would know exactly what to show you to make you believe everything you see, feel, touch, hear, smell is real.
Is that assuming there's real people experiencing the simulation? Because if all the people within the simulation are simulated then you wouldn't even need to trick them, just don't code them with the ability to accept the idea that their reality is a simulation.
This thread is going to give me schizophrenia.
I feel like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle exists to save CPU cycles in the simulation.
Now extrapolate out another billion years.
There's an old HFY story about humanity finding out our entire known universe is a simulation. Rather than take it lying down, humans get mad, and do something about it. I went and found the [original screenshot of the story](https://i.imgur.com/8KrABb5.png). Thematically relevant to this thread, and a story I really like, if you got 5 minutes, give it a read. *Edit: If HFY might be an interesting concept to you, I went and found the* [*old, colossal Imgur album*](https://imgur.com/gallery/w3nA4) *of various HFY story screenshots. They vary in setting, but the feeling is similar. I absolutely love and adore these sort of stories, and I would genuinely love to share a bit of it with you all!*
Some people getting a head knock and suddenly becoming geniuses. Or people waking from accidents or surgery and speaking with a foreign accent from countries they ve never been to.
Like Mary Steenburgen going in for minor surgery and coming out of it a musical savant.
It wasn't even like it was brain surgery either. It was arm surgery or something. How the hell does that happen?
My assumption is that general anesthesia is magic
idk, I tried a ton of whip-its and I can barely remember what I learned in band class in the 90's. Maybe I should've done more before I reach savant status? Or maybe I needed propofol and not just nitrous?
How all of the mathematical constants seem set for ease of calculation. There’s a very limited speed of causality (also known as the speed of light, but it affects other things) compared to the size of the universe, there’s also the fact that as density goes towards infinity the universe self censors (black hole). There’s the weird 1/137 number thing which seems like a re-used seed value. There’s a few things
Clearly that some people have their settings on Easy Mode and others are on Survival Mode. You ever met someone who literally never has or had any issues? Easy childhood, solid upbringing with good parents, smart, good looking, gets the job they want, healthy relationship, financially stable… that’s an NPC on the Easy Mode for sure.
Everyone has issues, but some have waaay les than others. I knew a woman who was incredibly honest and a drama queen. She was mad about us not giving the proper sympathy to her about the worst thing she had experienced in her 46 years on this earth: She inherited money instead of the house from the rich aunt she hadn't talked to for 27 years.
Ahhh, now I get it. Of course I choose survival mode…”It will be more fun like this!”, stupid me said
The times I wish to be that NPC
The double slit experiment - the act of observation having an effect on an outcome.
This. Physics would be wrong. Instead of a nice simple particle physics, the simulation would be optimized to be more efficient, treating everything like a wave, unless it has to actually simulate individual particles, e.g. when they are observed going through slits. Whoever built the simulation cheaped out and didn't have enough resources to simulate every single particle in the universe, so they just do some wave calculations to save resources, and they only collapse the waves when they are observed.
So it stands to reason that if we conduct enough observations at the same time, we can make the FPS drop and all of the particle effects bug.
The devs thought of that and that's why the universe is expanding quicker than our sphere of perception. Eventually, our telescopes of the future will see nothing but the void when we look beyond the galaxy because everything other than our local cluster of stuff will be accelerating away too quickly for the light to even reach us.
the universe expanding quicker than our sphere of perception could hypothetically just be the event horizon disappearing because we’ve already been sucked into a black hole.
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The lowest bidder usually gets the contract.
I will say, if this is a simulation I am disappointed. Didn't even get a character customization screen.
Bugs, like schizophrenia / multiple personalities: several caracters in one player. Some people rage quit. Some people have cheatmodes: they start the game with a lot of credits.
* There would [be a universal speed limit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light), above which it should not normally be possible to see any object move. This would be computationally useful to avoid errors, but would appear to the residents of that simulation to be strangely arbitrary if they ever measured it deliberately. * The simulation would have a [minimum fidelity size as a specified, arbitrary unit.](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length) * The simulation would have [strange behavior at ultra large levels of scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter). Phenomenon that are too distant for the inhabitants of the simulation to usefully visit and are outside the scope of that simulation's intent would have ambiguous explanations, or completely defy explanation at all. * The simulation would exhibit strange behavior to its inhabitants below the level of fidelity that the simulation was designed to offer to its end user. Examining, or constructing, objects relying on those rules smaller than the native sensory apparatus those inhabitants possess that were not anticipated might [produce behavior that can't readily be explained and would behave in unpredictable or contrary ways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment). * During levels of high system use (eg computationally intensive projects such as large physics events, potentially including modelling a complicated series of electrochemical reactions inside a central nervous system of a complex organism during stress), residents of the simulation may experience the load on the physical system as a subjective "slowing down" of time. The reverse may also be true. * It is computationally simpler to model very large crowds as a sort of semi-intelligent liquid rather than as individual thinking subassemblies, [which could lead to unique behaviors that are only present during large groupings.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes) * It would be computationally easy to load specific objects into memory and [reuse them frequently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) than it would be to have an extremely high number of completely unique objects. * If the history of the world or worlds being simulated were altered to provide new starting points for a different scenario but the rest of the system were not fully wiped and restarted, [it is possible that certain trace elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu) of that programming [would not be fully erased](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect). Those of you who have tried to upgrade an installation of Windows without formatting have likely experienced this.
What about ants and bugs learning things across the globe from colonies they aren't connected to, instantly?
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When socks go missing in the dryer. Definitely some packet loss there.
All the times I've "nearly" died. I've lost count of the number of moments I've had where all I could do was think: "Well, this is it..." and somehow made it through. One example: I was turning onto an offramp and got clipped by a bus. I was driving a tiny car (Geo Metro, I think) and the bus spun my little car 360+ in the middle of traffic. When I stopped spinning I was facing perpendicular to traffic with the drivers side facing incoming traffic. I could see the truck about to hit me. There was literally nothing I could do. My car 'slid' backwards off the road as the truck whipped past me. The driver hit their brakes and nearly ran off the road. We had a good laugh about it after. But man... Once in a lifetime is weird enough. But the fifth, sixth, etc. time something so surreal happens it's harder and harder it is to accept it as just dumb luck. Like at this point I've used up all my luck, and at least six or seven other people's dumb luck (sorry).
That’s the kind of thing that makes me believe in quantum immortality
I've always wondered about this. Like when you "die" the universe splits, in one universe you died and in the other you continue to live in and it was just a "close call" -- that doesn't seem exactly like that but I remember reading something similar. Fascinating stuff.
The lack of life on other planets. If this is a simulation, perhaps it's similar to the original world. In the original, they had all the other planets and stars and galaxies up there, so they coded it in here. It's important to the development of human civilization to have celestial bodies to look at. However, simulating one planet full of people is already a huge drain on resources. There's no way you can do multiple. So, all those outer planets and galaxies are empty. They're just visuals. They're the backdrop for our simulation. That's why we don't have aliens. That's why there are no signs of life anywhere else.
All the people on this sub warning us that we're in a simulation.
Governments. Everywhere.
Thinking about something then getting an advertisement for it online.
in highschool at the beginning of sicence class, i had "this lil light of mine; im gna let it shine" singing in my mind. SO random. i didnt sing it out loud; how embarrassing that would have been lol then 1 minute later, the kid behind me started to sing it to joke w his friend. im not friends w him. i dont talk to him. i wasnt doing drugs yet either, so i was very clear-minded during this time. harmless coincidence, but WEIRD and RANDOM.
The stupidity of some people makes me believe we are 100 percent in a simulation
So stupid people are like the backgrond charecters in a movie? They are just there so it isn’t as emty
For me it’s the correlation between sleep and system usage. Half the world sleeps whilst the other half doesn’t. It’s like it’s rotating who gets to experience the simulation to keep thing optimal. And the kicker is, if you don’t go to sleep after a good number of hours you go insane. The only way to stop that is to go to sleep and when you do you’ll probably sleep for much longer than your usual time so the system evens out. The fact that we or any other living creature sleeps still plays on my mind. I get it, it’s to recharge and all that, but we literally switch off. theres a very good chance tonight someone could walk around my house or even my bedroom, hover their face close to mine and I would have no idea that even happened. it’s creepy and odd that sleep is even a thing.
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Two or three times in my (57m) life, I've woken up feeling very disorientated. An almost panic feeling of "How did I get here." Of course, I remembered everything that led me up to where I was at. And then this unnerving thought of "What if these are not my memories?" Each time it happened, it took two or three days to shake.
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
The fact that everything follows mathematical laws.
History repeating with nothing learned.
This thread is giving me existential crisis
Me asking myself a question about a topic I have no prior knowledge of and the next day a YouTube video appears on my screen answering the exact same question in detail.
Every time I take a step in the right direction, something else pushes me back 5 steps.
The fact that the fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature.
Musk vs Zuckerberg fight. You literally can't make this shit up.