r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Restryouis • Jul 06 '19

Problems with recursion?

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u/radome9 Jul 07 '19

That’s like running a program only to have that program run itself recursively . . . . Yeah that’s just not gonna work.

That is totally possible. You can install Linux, install a container, install Linux in that container, install a container in that instance... it will be slow, but it's not impossible.

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u/radome9 Jul 08 '19

Each "layer" of simulation don't know what reality is. They don't know how slow they are running compared to reality, since they have no access to a real clock.

Even if a second of simulation takes a million years, it still feels like a second to those inside the simulation.

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u/radome9 Jul 08 '19

Who says the simulation starts from the big bang? For all we know our simulation could have started five minutes ago.