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by Jyaif 622 days ago
Finite speed of causality helps scale the compute across multiple servers.

If you have an infinite speed of causality, a server may need to receive data from all the servers. In the worst case, all servers will need to receive data from all the servers.

With finite speed of causality, a server only needs to receive data from the servers that simulate parts of the world that are nearby.