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Maybe all the other instances crashed, but we got lucky and get to apply the anthropic principle.

The real question is, are we running on bare metal, in a VM, or in a container?

> The real question is, are we running on bare metal, in a VM, or in a container?

We can't be running on the bare hardware; there is clearly an OS enforcing the hardware abstraction (e.g. every electron is identical).

But is each universe its own process? What happens if you fork()?

> every electron is identical

That's an illusion; there is only one electron.

buddhism intensifies

That’s how the kernel implements it anyway; every time you do a syscall to look at it you get a different pointer to the same 'struct lepton'.

Universe is a quantum computer, forking every Planck interval.

Why do you ask? Are you hoping to ROWHAMMER a parallel universe?

Genuinely curious if there’s any scientifically useful direction to this question

I'd watch a movie with that premise.

I believe they tried an experiment that was similar to that at the start of Schild’s Ladder — and for their troubles they were rewarded with a vacuum decay expanding through space at about 0.5c.

"According to the more conservative cosmologists, an alien superpower – maybe a collective of Kardashev Type Three galaxy-spanning civilizations – is running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of space-time itself, trying to break through to whatever's underneath." in Accelerando

I’ve never understood the anthropic principle. It’s a very big maybe for seemingly no reason. Existence of a single universe is a pretty hard thing to contemplate, why should we consider multiples of it?

We run on GPUs. The real question is, what does the AI that runs us, run on?

It's all WebAssembly

hahaha as a founder working on the Wasm space, this made me giggle!

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