Mary Childs

And when he checks in on one of the first teams of replicators working on the first paper.

I go talk to them and they're like, Abel, there's a problem.

Like, there's tons of duplicates.

I'm like, what?

He's like, yeah, one of the data sets, like, there's a ton of people with the same age.

And then I come back later on, and it's like, okay, 75% of one data set, everybody's 60 years old, all women, all living in the same village, all doing the same thing.

It's the same, it's duplicates.

And it's a paper about inequality.

If everybody's the same, there's no inequality.

And that was driving some of the mechanism.

And I was like, oh boy, that's the first paper.

That's the first game.

What did I create?

It's going to be like this all the time.

People finding crazy mistakes.

And did I just open a can of worms that actually most papers are just like terrible, full of crazy golden hairs?

Abel was a little afraid he might be about to discover that all papers were full of worms and that science wasn't real.

But luckily, by the end of the day, like many teams had like good day, everything was clean and so on.

And it was like, it's like not terrible.

But what actually happens on the ground during these things?