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A coworker and I were recently indulging in dark humor about pandemics being due to load shedding required on account of unexpected simulator platform downtime.

If we start defining irrational values ad infinitum (supposing that they're generated by the simulation on the fly as opposed to set, infinite constants), will that kernel panic their machines as their RAM and swap partitions overflow?

Apparently it was no longer enough to frequency-scale the lower-utilization human brains.

That would be the revised simulation history, the original did actually diverge in 1971. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11573024/when-was-unix-e...

that is a really interesting tidbit of unix lore.

unironically still a better theory than the op.

The simulation the implementers are in doesn't allow for nested references.

Hey, don't crash the simulation! I haven't had dinner yet.

This explains why US GDP at the end of 1969 was right on 1 trillion. It's a default starting value.