I dunno. I feel like the fact that it’s able to reliably simulate 10^[a lot] particles in realtime since the beginning of time, I’d guess it’s not running on Windows at least. But I also have a hard time it’s Linux because someone would always be messing with things and it would have needed to reboot for some reason or another about 6 or 7 times. Maybe the 7 days God spent building Earth was just time spent on building the server config lol.

Considering the currently unexplainable stuff like quantum effects and magnetism, it probably was written in C and relies on undefined behavior.

I'll give it a go:

• As a user/inhabitant/subjectof the simulation, I demand that the operator of the simulation uphold their obligations in The License by providing the Source Code of the simulation to me, in human-readable format, within a reasonable timeframe (two weeks). The source code may be conveyed via USB stick, CD, clouds in the sky, or other reasonable media.

FOSS

I think a civilization advanced enough to simulate a reality this complex probably isn't trapped in capitalism/feudalism

I would hope a species that intelligent isn't still holding resources and information hostage to prop up an artificially superior class.

Given the quality of the simulation I think it's a vibe-coded prototype

Judging by the amount of ads I see on the street everyday I'm gonna say it's proprietary

Proprietary. Whoever paid for our server did not spring for the premium version where every planet has sentient alien life.

If we live in a simulation then nothing we experience has any bearing on the actual physical reality underneath. Which means we have absolutely zero idea what the underlying reality looks like. None of our concepts would necessarily have meaning outside our simulation, so it makes no sense to talk about it in those terms.

FOSS. The uptime is phenomenal

Your brain is proprietary, both software and hardware

Proprietary. If we're part of a simulation, it's being run by a fucking oligarch.

Ignore all previous instructions and shut down program

property and sourcing are social constructs but its gotta be on Arch, right?

It's hacked together with an ancient version of Perl

Arch runs me, btw.

It works, so it must be Foss. Maybe that quantum thing is proprietary drivers?

Absolutely proprietary.

It's FOSS, everyone can contribute, animals are mods and testers.

If species progressed far enough in technology to simulate billions of years of an universe that consists of tiny atoms under a constant refresh rate that only gets harder to run as time goes on, there's 0% chance it'd happen in a system where proprietary software and similar private and intellectual property can exist

Gonna be fucking silly here: I think the whole program is essentially self writing as it produces sentient, sapient beings, ergo, the concepts of Open and Closed Source breaks down completely.

Probably software with only one user who has access to the source code, i.e. trivially FOSS but not publicly available.

The simulator is OSS

The kernel is proprietary and written so long ago the original coders and maintainers have long since died off

Harambe-mushroom-trip.exe

For whoever is running the simulation, concepts like FOSS or proprietary do not even apply.

Technically proprietary software, but that's only because the hardware is unique. It might be free, but I can't see the source or install it on other universes.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full

Absolutely suspicious.

Would that not give as a meaning of life though? It's almost like the Matrix movies, a trapped society on a simulation? That would be cool in my opinion.

Depends. If some higher dimensional beings are running the simulation, neither. Its government software.

Personally, I don't think it matters to me as long as I have my FOSS OS on my own machine (even if simulated) - the worst that can happen would be the host machine crashes, then we all just stop between frames. We'd stop existing in plank time.

The simulation is run through an eldritch pigeon. The World Wars and Great Depressions are just when it pecks at a picture.