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Comment author: Will_Newsome 28 May 2010 04:31:09PM *  29 points [-]

Will: "Damn, how do people make things like that?"

Nick: "I'm guessing a very high visuo-spatial intelligence."

Will: "I bet a superintelligence could create a whole universe like that."

Both, after thinking for a few seconds: "Gyahh!!"

Will: "Everything would have an infinite amount of interpretations, all of them equally correct. Everyone's beliefs would be right and everyone would be happy! Yay!"

Nick: "But whether or not everyone's interpretations were equally correct would depend on one's interpretation."

Will: "Doesn't this look like the world we live in?"

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