With a prototype ASI, Dr. Julia Simcoe modeled the universe''s fate—a dismal ending of expansive coldness, without light, without hope.


    All other scientific institutions calculated similar results.


    Julia (the founder) wrote:


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    "Indeed, the only truth we know is the death of ourselves and the universe. Perhaps that is the basis for all philosophy and religion—the desire to exist beyond one''s time limit, or the desire to seek all answers before dying."


    Thus began Julia''s Neo-Luddite movement, overtaking the world, abandoning modern technology in favor of faith, hope, and mystery—so that humanity’s intellectual survival extinct naturally conquered nihilism.