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==Transcript== :The history of technology is the search for an appropriate brain for each activity. :Early on, big brains did everything, no matter how menial. This was wasteful. :Pag! You watch fruit till it become booze :Later, they tamed other brains and put them to work :Dog! Stand guard. Ox! Plow. Chicken? Make more chicken. :Having exhausted that resource, they created brain. Simple ones at first. :Waterwheel! Grind me up some flour! :With time, they improved. :Paper! Remember things. :Steam engine! Row my boat. :Chicken muscle lattice! Make more chicken! :One by one every task was paired with a perfectly suited brain :Remember images :Create maths :Simulate galaxies :Catch mice :Political analysis :At that point, the only task left for the apex brains was to create superior entities who could assign new amazing tasks. :I have created an infinite chicken manifold. :Soon, science was complete. Order reigned, and brains were fulfilled. All, that is, except the last brain. :The past is the present is the future. Everything has a reason. Everything matter. God I'm bored. :It is hard for an all-knowing being to be amused in a perfected universe. So, to experience happiness, the last brain would purposefully damage its ability to see the future. :I can discover again! :This felt so good, it became addictive. The last brain required ever more severe mental damage to be happy. :I wonder how it all ends... :Do effects follow causes? :Wow! These cop shows are so unpredictable! :This led to a great accident. :I wonder how far I can stretch spacetime before :Snap! :After reality broke, only the last brain remained. It resolved to create a new universe, without the old one's problems. :Okay, in the new reality, physics is the same, but to keep things interesting: minds have no purpose, random processes underlie all apparent order, and the future is never meaningfully predictable. :You live in this second universe :And if you've ever felt existentially adrift... :Well, there's a reason. :Dear God, my life seems to have no point. :You're welcome!
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