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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Very Bad Wizards

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The Universe Splits Off a Long Time Ago, Right?

There's a heavy sampling bias because you only get a prism when there is a universe where somebody who is very, very identical to you also gets a prism on the other side. The person that splits is so already so close to being who you are that the things that happen within the next few months aren't going to differ widely. But at least in the case that we saw, they're very similar characters, even though their universe split off a long time ago.

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