Computer

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computer

Title text: Sadly, that burrito was filled with inhabited universes before God microwaved it.

Votey

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Dear god, is reality a computer?

First, you start with a math problem you can't solve then, you set up a universe so that the only way to escape is to solve a math problem.

Oh, yeah. That's the reason there's a multiverse. It calculates stuff.

You set the universe to split every time a

You wait long enough, some universes will develop patterns that create order and excrete entropy.

Quantum event happens.

Hi, I'm dave.

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This pattern will use up its allotment of order, then start working on a way to escape.

Madame president, we've reduced this universe to an inert motionless

Can we find someone who did a better job husbanding their limited resources, and then eat them?

Wasteland

It escapes to an adjacent universe, where it devours its resources.

You can't stop us from killing you! That proves our moral superiority

And then you ask the escapees how they did it?

You let the process run while you go microwave a burrito or something

What? No there's like a trillion jillion universes. How would you know who to ask.2

After a while, you come back and check. The only universe remaining will necessarily contain creatures that solved the problem. Voila/ math homework complete.

Incredible..

So. The only meaning to my life is to solve a math problem that you find interesting?

Not you in particular you suck at math.

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Don't worry! You'll be dead soon anyway.

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