It’s worth considering that the first large computers were developed specifically to calculate the trajectories of bombs. With about 20 lines of code, I can write a simple game where you fire missiles at a target. In order to build a simple gardening game, I have to write hundreds of lines of code. This is because answering the question “did the bomb hit its target” means solving one elementary algebra problem and displaying the result. Simulating a garden requires math that is analogous to a complex system of partial differential equations and somehow communicating that to the player.
I suppose what I’m saying is: it’s much easier to simulate war than to simulate peace.
Darius gets a journalist to not quote him by saying really smart things.