swjr-swis Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 (edited) Based on this comment in another thread by @The White Guardian Note: if this thread is considered for TotM, please credit it to @The White Guardian . Assuming Life turned out to be an all-encompassing simulation, and somehow we got our hands on the source code (and assuming we understand the programming language of Life): what, if anything, would you change? No need to explain why or in what way, unless you feel chatty or exceptionally enthusiastic about the idea. The first thing I thought of is bug hunting. Quite literally. Can we do without mosquitos? Do we really need them? (then I had a whole string of other ideas, but it was funny to me that that was my first thought). Edited August 7, 2016 by swjr-swis emphasis on correct credit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 >rm -rf /* There you go. All the problems solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjp1050 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Politicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Guardian Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I was actually planning on starting this myself. :/ Well, at least I got credited... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0111narwhalz Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 This is an interesting question. It requires some thought as to how fine-grained the simulation is. If it's a coarse simulation, you can just change single values and easily predictable effects will come of them. If it's a very fine simulation, you'd have to study the system in great detail before you risk cascades of unintended consequences. In the event of the former, I'd tweak those factors which govern the cost of microscale manufacturing, so that computing devices become ridiculously cheap. That, and the specific energy of lithium batteries. In the event of the latter, I would edit some physical process to yield a (relatively) easily exploitable violation of the first law of thermodynamics. Preferably in the "more energy" direction rather than the "less energy" one. Something sufficiently simple to be cheap, but complex enough that you can't do much more than heat your house (maybe via ultra-cheap computers mentioned above?) with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legoclone09 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 drop table venomous spiders;-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 1 minute ago, legoclone09 said: drop table venomous spiders;-- drop table wasps;-- drop table mosquitoes;-- Then I'd tweak some equations to make interstellar travel easy and fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ISE Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 2 minutes ago, cubinator said: drop table wasps;-- drop table mosquitoes;-- Then I'd tweak some equations to make interstellar travel easy and fast. now I'm heavy breathing throw in some global funding cfg files for all space agencies. We would be back at the moon in 2 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, razark said: >rm -rf /* There you go. All the problems solved. Your not logged in as root. #> rm -r /* You may carry on until shutdown :-) Since i know i will never understand all the side effects i'd fork a local version and play a bit around, When that gets boring i'd try to hack and spoil the efforts of others since that is probably what everyone else is trying. :-) Edited August 6, 2016 by Green Baron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legoclone09 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 sudo apt-get install kerbalspaceprogram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swjr-swis Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 27 minutes ago, Green Baron said: Since i know i will never understand all the side effects i'd fork a local version and play a bit around, When that gets boring i'd try to hack and spoil the efforts of others since that is probably what everyone else is trying. :-) But if you forked, you'd no longer be in the reality everyone else is affecting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 (edited) Ah, i see. Omg, everyone in the same game. Poor inhabitants. You can't be that mean ... :-) Ok. Then the first thing i'd do is let everyone suffer via vr from the changes inflicted upon the inhabitants, 10 min, before breakfast. Before coffee. Edited August 6, 2016 by Green Baron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Step one: Reduce Earth's Gravity Step two: Bring every planet closer to the sun Step three: Lower the heat of the sun Step four: Make Donald Trump donate 90% of his fortune to SpaceX Step five: Humanity moves to Mars. Step six: Make sure I own Jupiter. Step seven: Delete the sport of running. (I HATE running, but I have to do it) Step eight: Boost my writing skills so that my mission report will finally get (some) attention Step nine: Make the Far Lands in Minecraft closer by 8 million blocks so KurtJMac finally gets there Step ten: Shoot a Michael Bay movie in another solar system Woah, I got really carried away there. Step eleven: Make the SQUAD devs turn into superrobots for ten minutes and have KSP v6.87.92 up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swjr-swis Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 26 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: Step eleven: Make the SQUAD devs turn into superrobots for ten minutes and have KSP v6.87.92 up and running. Ahh.. the version with the definitive wheels patch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Guardian Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 tbh it really annoys me that an idea I had turns out to be a huge success, but I'm not the one who made the thread. I actually think I'm gonna make a thread myself with this exact same question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Guardian Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 This thread was made after an idea I had on the thread 'Win a copy of KSP on consoles', quoting myself here: 5 hours ago, The White Guardian said: Well, perhaps. That'd actually a pretty good topic for a discussion: what would you edit if life was a simulation and you could edit the source code? So, the question here is, what would you alter if life was a computer simulation, and if you could alter it's codes? Simplified: how would you change the world? Keep in mind though that you can only change one thing, so choose wisely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZhB Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Human Instrumentality here I come. Things gonna be great. Peeps gonna come back to life n' stuff. Heck yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Really? This is y'all's reaction? You find out that the very nature of reality is a fiction, and you say "I'm going to mess with this fantasy to make things awesome"?!? Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 @The White Guardian, unfortunately threads with the "exact same question" get merged together to keep discussions of the same topic in one place. I've merged the two threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Guardian Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 4 minutes ago, Maximus97 said: @The White Guardian, unfortunately threads with the "exact same question" get merged together to keep discussions of the same topic in one place. I've merged the two threads. *frustrated sigh* Great. For once I had a good idea and now someone else's profile is pasted over it, and the fact that this thread keeps growing bigger and bigger only makes this more annoying. What bothers me the most is that this thread is potential TOTM material, and if it does become a thread of the month, I won't even be the person who gets credited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I'd revert back to 1984, then try the last few levels again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legoclone09 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Why not give ToTM to both of them? And transfer thread ownership to @The White Guardian and have @swjr-swis's OP as the second post if that is possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Guardian Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 20 minutes ago, legoclone09 said: Why not give ToTM to both of them? And transfer thread ownership to @The White Guardian and have @swjr-swis's OP as the second post if that is possible? I'd absolutely love to see that happen. I don't need full credit if this thread becomes a ToTM, but if it does become a ToTM, I do want to see my name there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Look, in the OP message, @The White Guardian, you're already credited. They mentioned you by name. It won't be you that created the thread, yes, but his thread came first, preceding yours by a little over 3 hours. Let's all just get back to the topic at hand, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Create a console. /spawn Au sphere 6.0221409e+23 Tx Ty Tz Ax Ay Az Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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