Comic #5851: simulation-2

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Panel 1:
Person 1: "Dear simulation creator, why do bad things happen to good people?"
Creator: "No clue."

Panel 2:
Person 1: "This whole thing was generated by a neural network. I don’t know where the rules come from."

Panel 3:
Person 1: "A lot of the obvious stuff feels like a kluge. Speed is capped, I think to prevent collapse? Like, okay no collapse, but then there are whole sections of the universe you can’t reach from other sections?"

Panel 4:
Creator: "Also you know how everything looks continuous? Just a cheap trick. Anytime you get close to something it's discrete. Not gorgeous, but hey it saves computing power."

Panel 5:
Person 1: "Ha, which was probably used to generate all that unreachable space."

Panel 6:
Creator: "So you’re not all-knowing?"
Person 1: "I think once I finish my master’s I’ll feel more confident."

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