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A model conjures a procedural kingdom with economies and lineages from one plan

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Ethan Mollick had Fable conjure an entire procedural fantasy kingdom, with economies, trade routes, wars, lineages and occasional dragons, from a single plan — every ancestor simulation this cheap to run raising the Bayesian odds that our own world is someone else's afternoon project.

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