Non-Modding GTA News - NASA Compares GTA to Reality

[tthousand]

NASA, Grand Theft Auto and the Dev Secrets of the Universe - Is Life as We Know It, Really Just a Computer Simulation?

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (known more colloquially as NASA) doesn't make traditional video games - they're far too busy trying to debug the universe itself. However, that hasn't stopped them from looking to games as a resource tool from time to time - and now as a possible explanation for our very existence.

As it turns out, there's an entire school of thought that says the real world just might be a simulation, and if so, it might work with rules very similar to the ones that govern the universe of Grand Theft Auto -something not entirely foreign to Liberty City radio listeners...

In a recent interview with Vice, NASA scientist Rich Terrile discusses the prospect, based on the rapidly accelerating ability of computers to simulate massively complex environments and systems:

"Right now the fastest NASA supercomputers are cranking away at about double the speed of the human brain," says Rich. If you make a simple calculation using Moore’s Law (computer processing power doubles around every two years), you’ll find that these supercomputers, inside of a decade, will have the ability to compute an entire human lifetime of 80 years—including every thought ever conceived during that lifetime—in the span of a month."

Rich goes on to liken the universe's design architecture to that of Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City:

"The natural world behaves exactly the same way as the environment of Grand Theft Auto IV. In the game, you can explore Liberty City seamlessly in phenomenal detail. I made a calculation of how big that city is, and it turns out it’s a million times larger than my PlayStation 3. You see exactly what you need to see of Liberty City when you need to see it, abbreviating the entire game universe into the console. The universe behaves in the exact same way. In quantum mechanics, particles do not have a definite state unless they’re being observed. Many theorists have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how you explain this. One explanation is that we’re living within a simulation, seeing what we need to see when we need to see it."

Of course this raises the question, is there another universe like ours out there somewhere, running on better hardware?

Read the full story here:
WHOA, DUDE, ARE WE INSIDE A COMPUTER RIGHT NOW? (VICE)

Source: NASA, Grand Theft Auto and the Dev Secrets of the Universe (Rockstar Games)

tthousand's tthoughts - I suppose this means the GTA modders are going to be the "good guy team" in the "matrix". Which one of you guys is really talking to us from the otherside?!?!?! Or is it me?

Hello nativesith... Follow the White Rabbit...

[zorg93]

tthousand's tthoughts - I suppose this means the GTA modders are going to be the "good guy team" in the "matrix". Which one of you guys is really talking to us from the otherside?!?!?! Or is it me?

Hello nativesith... Follow the White Rabbit...

who are the agents then, and im guessing someone Rockstar is the architect, think about it, they dont like the 'good guy team' they have re created it many times etc.

back to original point, just like in the matrix there is a real world outside the matrix, that would have to suggest that the computer program where all this is created is stored on hardware in an actual physical universe. but like every computer programs there are bugs(explains neo) so surely these bugs would have been observed by us

right science talk over. why does sith get to be neo -_-

[Colt]

who are the agents then, and im guessing someone Rockstar is the architect, think about it, they dont like the 'good guy team' they have re created it many times etc.

back to original point, just like in the matrix there is a real world outside the matrix, that would have to suggest that the computer program where all this is created is stored on hardware in an actual physical universe. but like every computer programs there are bugs(explains neo) so surely these bugs would have been observed by us

right science talk over. why does sith get to be neo -_-

"You see exactly what you need to see of Liberty City when you need to see it"

Same as us really man. We don't know for sure what's going on when we're not looking.

Tthou, kinda blown away by that one lol. Wouldn't it be weird if everything we did was because someone made us do it? Strange.. o.O

Well, made my night more interesting.

[tthousand]

Like GTA though, you have free will. So you can go anywhere in the world, but there is no need to load that part of the world for you while you are not in it.

Such as in quantum mechanics, where things act differently depending on if they are being observed or not.

Either way, it is a very big univeserve, and our knowledge of it is miniscule at best.

I am just glad that I am not the only one that thinks the "matrix" theory can be real, NASA does too

And lastly, nativesith gets to be N3o; because, of the OG4 PS3 GTA Modders, he is the oN3

[Colt]

Like GTA though, you have free will. So you can go anywhere in the world, but there is no need to load that part of the world for you while you are not in it.

Such as in quantum mechanics, where things act differently depending on if they are being observed or not.

Either way, it is a very big univeserve, and our knowledge of it is miniscule at best.

I am just glad that I am not the only one that thinks the "matrix" theory can be real, NASA does too

And lastly, nativesith gets to be N3o; because, of the OG4 PS3 GTA Modders, he is the oN3

I know, I read the full article just now, and the part about the overweight korean kid made me and me friend laugh, but it also got us interested. How weird would it be if someone was controlling you and everything you ever did was done like at the same time as someone 50 years ahead of us o.O

dodgy.

[tthousand]

Well, I haven't read the other article just yet, only this one as of now.

But basically you are saying what if the 2010s are really the 2060s, but we don't know it.

Nice...

[Colt]

Well, I haven't read the other article just yet, only this one as of now.

But basically you are saying what if the 2010s are really the 2060s, but we don't know it.

Nice...

Not quite, but almost.

[nativesith]

I always knew GTA was bigger than life itself.
I am Neo since I was controlling that world more than others. Hell the agents came after me and took all my ISH down. They knew what I was responsible for...They seen the reality of this existence coming. They saw their power(batteries/Human) being taken away and offered something mo real with in that world.
Everyone else in that world is bound and trapped within rules. Evil, JD, Silent Pavel and I rewrote the rules and freed ourselves.
Which pill will you take , red or blue? Blue is to remain in their world, red is freedom. Take the RED PILL.
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[zorg93]

im guessing microsoft and sony are the agents for being responsible for the game being patched last year

[tthousand]

The agents are whoever they have to be, kind of like an anti-virus, or in this case... the Wanted System. As long as you can remain under the radar, you should be safe... That is... Until you know too much!