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wen_mars t1_itz0zey wrote

Reply to comment by Mundane-Local-2728 in First time for everything. by cloudrunner69

Without breaking our current understanding of the laws of physics: They haven't figured out time travel so they run a simulation of Earth to predict the future and find solutions to problems before they happen and simulate the consequences of those solutions.

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Mundane-Local-2728 t1_itz29zc wrote

Ooh this is actually even more realistic scenario. But that's exactly what makes it even more terrifying, because it goes without saying that civilizations in most of those sims would not arrive at the intended solutions and hence either get destroyed or the simulators would just switch them off. So our chances being in one of those "loser" sims are actually far greater than the "winner" ones.

Fuck.

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wen_mars t1_itz3u16 wrote

"Damn, rejected again. Computer, reload from last save."

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Mundane-Local-2728 t1_itz2f8z wrote

Also, there's a good possibility that the simulators just turn off the "winner" sims as well, once they have arrived at the solutions, because it wouldn't make sense to spend all that compute power once the sims have served their purpose.

So we're screwed either way.

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