Doom on Windows Task Manager

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by hasheddan • 5 years ago

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vardump2• 5 years ago

Cool look, and I do appreciate the idea.

However, some people seem to be thinking it's not real: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta...

mcotocel• 5 years ago

I'm disappointed that it isn't real. I don't see why the creator feels the need to lie, it's a cool project even if it isn't in the actual task manager.

vardump2• 5 years ago

Agreed. And it's possible to implement it in reality as well. Although 32 socket servers are a bit pricey, so might be difficult find a system to develop & test it.

n3dm• 5 years ago

That's because it isn't real.

Tempest1981• 5 years ago

Similar, with Tetris:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25343369

Brian_K_White• 5 years ago

People say "whats the point?" but this is incredibly thought provoking to me.

Whether the creator intended it or not, this is actually significant art as in capital A.

Whether this example is fake or not, it's a fact that it's possible, if not in task manager tgen in somsthing equivalent, if not today then shortly.

And that makes me think of existense itself. Each one of those cpu cores or processes is doing some job to the best of it's ability, and from it's point of view is worthwhile enough to do, meanwhile merely at some other scale, it's entire life is used just to form a pixel in a disply, and the information being displayed is a trivial amusement.

Next, the controlling process in this case was an intelligence, but the controlling process could theoretically be something brainless and mecbanical like a virus, that isn't even playing doom and enjoying it but just a mechanical process of some sort that doesn't do anything but perpetuate.

And of course if it wasn't obvious, you and I could be one of those pixels. Our whole race could be one of those pixels. I don't mean literally just a pixel in a display but any tiny part in some process that plays out at some other scale.

At a less grandiose scale, are there generals and politicians and business owners who see their armies of soldiers, citizens, customers, employees, as nothing but microscopic dots of material to be employed however they want? Is your whole life not merely a data point for FB or Amazon?

Next, could not Amazon be swapped out for a bitcoin smart contract?

I say thought provoking. As a life long reader, especially sci-fi, this is hardly the first time I've encountered this concept of scale. I mean, even the normies have encountered "Horton Hears a Who". I'm not saying this provoked the thought for the first time, just that it provokes the thought.

I see it, and I stop and dwell on that for a bit (and think of new things like the Amazon smart contract). That is a feature of captal A art.

Doom on Windows Task Manager

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