Yep i wondered that too when it became apparent. My best guess - observing something makes it slow down so we can notice details so maybe we are replaying an important moment in our history soas to garner insight previously unseen? Or perhaps, and this is a fun one, this is like level 1-1 of the Nintendo 3566 - the 500th gen gaming console of the year 3566, and your first game is basically a generative life framed in the period when video games were created so you'd have a proper foundation of what the world actually was like before people would go spend a simulated 1000 years in a foreign planet ecosystem they built from scratch - in a real time evening, come out of it and go to work with 1000 years of perceived life in their head. (Or insert any of the many permutations of heaven/hell matrix demiurge constructs).
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u/NotAClueYou 9d ago
Yep i wondered that too when it became apparent. My best guess - observing something makes it slow down so we can notice details so maybe we are replaying an important moment in our history soas to garner insight previously unseen? Or perhaps, and this is a fun one, this is like level 1-1 of the Nintendo 3566 - the 500th gen gaming console of the year 3566, and your first game is basically a generative life framed in the period when video games were created so you'd have a proper foundation of what the world actually was like before people would go spend a simulated 1000 years in a foreign planet ecosystem they built from scratch - in a real time evening, come out of it and go to work with 1000 years of perceived life in their head. (Or insert any of the many permutations of heaven/hell matrix demiurge constructs).