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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How many billions of people have we got? It seems like the universe is very good at scaling.

And even if it crashes, why would that mean it disappears? If your computer crashes, does it typically stop working forever, or can you fix it?

For all we know, maybe it already crashes a lot and there is just no way for us to know about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If your data is in memory only, crashing will revert to the latest save, which could be forever ago.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    But you wouldn’t know right?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nope

    It could have happened a dozen times already.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's why you walked into the room and forgot why you came in there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That would require data to be saved.

    If any such thing happened, it would be seemless.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It depends on which data is saved and what methods are used. Maybe it was able to use a partial write. Or maybe your position was saved, but your memory wasn't, and your mind had to fill in the blanks.

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