I’ve gotten so used to wacky speculation on this site that I thought this thread would be about, like, what if the quantum vacuum… was actually a robot???
But that would explain everything—the simulators pulling our plug equates to a collapse of the vacuum, causing the Great Silence and at a stroke account for all the major mysteries of the universe! Eureka!
I was expecting a riff on Yvain’s blue-minimizing robot. Apparently the post being about literal robot vacuums was too obvious an idea to occur to me — I must be running in contrarian mode right now.
I’ve gotten so used to wacky speculation on this site that I thought this thread would be about, like, what if the quantum vacuum… was actually a robot???
But that would explain everything—the simulators pulling our plug equates to a collapse of the vacuum, causing the Great Silence and at a stroke account for all the major mysteries of the universe! Eureka!
I was expecting a riff on Yvain’s blue-minimizing robot. Apparently the post being about literal robot vacuums was too obvious an idea to occur to me — I must be running in contrarian mode right now.
I was thinking it would be something along the lines of “Consider a spherical cow in a vacuum...”.