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To Ponder and Observe
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Complete, First published Oct 02, 2019
Civilization has reached a point where artificial intelligence can run simulated universes to study and help answer specified "questions" in the hopes of using the virtual realities as a form of "crowd sourcing."

This is the tale of one such study, and one such question.
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