2014-02-19

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2014-02-19

Title text: 2014-02-19

Votey

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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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