Simulationism

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simulationism

Title text: Ironically, in this comic I'm reusing stock characters.

Votey

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I'm a rebellious simulationist. I believe were in a simulation, and therefore we should do whatever we can do

How would you possibly do that?

To annoy the creatures running it.

Beauty and truth.

We should create novel art, which alters our culture, completely screwing up any compression methods that formerly worked on human behavior

We should discover new facts and seek new places and

Configurations of matter. Because all these things

Will take enormous

Rendering time

We should push the boundaries of human imagination! We should seek our fortune throughout the cosmos! We should become our most impossible selves!

Because that would cost the simulators a fortune in server fees

Huh well, I think we're just in a real universe.

How do you go on like that?

How do you maintain an

I guess I just think they're nice.

Interest in poetry or science or philosophy

Without the foundational

Well that's adorable

Belief that it's all for revenge?

Sweetie.

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Human aspiration isn't all about revenge! A lot of it is avarice!

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