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There's an animated piece on Netflix called Midnight Gospel. In it, the ability to simulate universes is invented. As a result, there are technology farms that
by drBonkers 4y ago
There's an animated piece on Netflix called Midnight Gospel. In it, the ability to simulate universes is invented.
As a result, there are technology farms that harvest technologies developed in the simulated universes (rather than invent their own).
How we harvest nature's "technology" reminds me of this.
- radicaldreamer 4y agoIt's a pretty good strategy to be honest... much better than hoping to get lucky in the lab by yourself (even with a handful of postdocs)
- RangerScience 4y agoThere's an old Theodore Sturgeon story about this, where a man makes a tiny, ultra-fast civilization 'in his basement' and then learns from them, not-quite passing off this inventions as his own.
- drBonkers 4y agoOh, the writers of Rick and Morty have an arc with this premise. Fun to know they got the idea from Sturgeon.