“This civilization confuses me. Even with their primitive compute engines, they could easily have simulated their own society to identify the glaring flaws preventing the advance of their civilization. It would have been trivial to jump multiple decimals in civilization type.”
“They did see the flaws. The model collapsed in every single simulation on record.”
A spaceship, 15,000 years from now:
“This civilization confuses me. Even with their primitive compute engines, they could easily have simulated their own society to identify the glaring flaws preventing the advance of their civilization. It would have been trivial to jump multiple decimals in civilization type.”
“They did see the flaws. The model collapsed in every single simulation on record.”
“Then why did they continue living like this?”
“Who knows. They’re long gone now.”