Now THAT was unexpected. Roosh demonstrates a hitherto unsuspected talent for writing science fiction:
“Remember when you spawned Hitler?” Fodos asked.
“Remember?” Ghartek replied. “That was the highlight of my career! But it almost crashed the simulation.”
“What I loved about it is how you weaved Biblical themes into Hitler’s actions. It really scared the Jews.”
“Wait until we give Israel to Iran in the next update. The Persian empire must rise again!” Fodos laughed.
“Hey watch this,” Ghartek said, “I’m going to mess with this guy by vanishing his orange toothbrush.” Ghartek made a couple clicks on his display and then somewhere in Siberia, a man couldn’t find his toothbrush, no matter where he looked.
“He’s checking the door to see if someone came in to steal it.” Ghartek smirked, pleased at his work.
Both Fodos and Ghartek were senior programmers on Bethlabus, a planet where a race of hyper-intelligent species called Homo futurans lived. They shared human genetic ancestry with those living in a simulation that they controlled, though technically the connection was only virtual. Real Homo sapiens died out long ago, following in the footsteps of their Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis ancestors. Futurans created the simulation to better understand their roots and their future, with a goal to prevent their own extinction. The simulation itself was housed on a quantum computer the size of a city block.
While there were dozens of simulations in operation, Simulation Earth was the most interesting. Not only was it the longest, spanning over 5 billion years, but it seemed to mirror what Futurans knew about their own past of spurts and stops in evolution that seemed to be a microcosm of the rise and fall of human empires. Data from the simulation was continually analyzed with reports presented yearly to the public through academic papers and conferences. “If we understand our past, we will safeguard our future,” the motto went.
The most important fact they learned from the simulations is the universal difficulty of intelligent organisms to properly foresee and plan again long-term disasters. Once a species gets too technologically advanced, their over-confidence in problem solving and fixing the environment actually accelerates their demise instead of retarding it.
Read the whole thing there. It’s better, and more genuinely science fiction, than anything that won a Nebula Award last week.