"David Brin - Reality Check" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

would fail than succeed.
A time of petty squabbles and wondrous insights, when everything seemed possible, from
UFOs to Galactic Empires, from artificial intelligence to bio-war, from madness to hope.
That blessed era, just before mathematicians realized the truth: that everything you see
around you not only can be a simulation... it almost has to be.
Of course, now we know why we never met other sapient life forms. Each one struggles
and strives before achieving this state, only to reap the ultimate punishment for reaching
heaven.
Deification. It is the Great Filter.
Perhaps some other race will find a factor we left out of our extrapolations -- something
enabling them to move beyond, to new adventures -- but it won't be us.
The Filter has us snared in its web of ennui. The mire that welcomes self-made gods.

All right, you are refusing to waken, so we'll let you go.
Dear friend. Beloved. Go back to your dream.
Smile (or feel a brief chill) over this diverting little what-if tale, as if it hardly matters.
Then turn the page to new "discoveries."
Move on with the drama -- the "life" -- that you've chosen.
After all, it's only make believe.

THE END