2 August 2006 - no reality 2

Poet: What should we do differently in a simulated world?
Weird: First of all, we should stop existing. The universe goes poof if any of an infinite number of people trips over the power cord. Multiply the probabilities!
Smart: That would be easier if we knew what the probabilities were. But there’s a chance that we could figure out the universe’s purpose.
Weird: It is to invent the nylon anteater. The day somebody accidentally fabricates one, it’s all over.
Poet: How gloomy. Don’t you think it’s to create, to grow, to spin the sunlight into green ideas?
Weird: Colorless green ideas?
Smart: Evidence suggests that it is to maximize the quantity of speculation and simultaneously minimize its quality.