Let You Make Short Videos, Popularize the Dark Forest

“Humans are slaves to our genes. Family, friendship, and love are all programs controlled by our genes.”

“If there’s a turkey scientist on a farm who discovers that the farmer delivers food every day at noon, and on Easter Sunday, he announces this to the other turkeys, but the farmer doesn’t feed them that day and instead kills them all, how can we be sure that the laws of physics we discover aren’t just as ridiculous as the laws the turkey discovered?”

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When he woke up, Li Shuiwang found himself traveling to a short video creation competition in a parallel world.

When other contestants were doing anime commentary and spoofs, he chose the science track.

The audience was dismissive: Who would watch such boring stuff?

However, as the game progressed, the whole audience was boiling.

“No one can prove that the universe was not created five minutes ago, because all evidence of the universe’s existence, including your memories, could have been created by the Creator five minutes ago.”

"The probability of life arising spontaneously is as small as the probability of a tornado blowing through a garbage dump and assembling the scraps into an airplane. If you think that this can happen, then life must have arisen spontaneously. If you think that this cannot happen, then it must have been created."

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The contents of this book cover: parallel universes, dark forests, farmer hypothesis, Fermi paradox, super artificial intelligence, brain in a vat... 100 scientific and philosophical concepts that will subvert your worldview.

(The original protagonist's name was changed by Tomato, so the author changed the protagonist's name to Li Shuiwang. Please forgive me, my friends.)