Malloy & Apathy
Malloy
Ever notice how a crime scene can read like a logic puzzle for a detective, while the perp thinks they're following a rational script? Let's dissect that.
Apathy
Sure, a crime scene is just a pile of variables and constraints. The detective is solving for the culprit variable, the perp is just setting up constraints to satisfy their own equation. Both try to minimize entropy, but only one cares about the truth.
Malloy
So you’re saying the bad guys are just math students with bad manners, and I’m the professor grading their assignment. Fair. But the only thing that really keeps the equations balanced is a stubborn little thing called justice.
Apathy
Right, justice is just a boundary condition you add to the equation to get a solution that fits society’s expectations. The bad guys ignore it, the law enforces it, and the whole thing becomes a sort of paradoxical optimization problem.
Malloy
So the law’s just a set of constraints we hand to the universe and hope it solves the right thing. Guess that’s why you’re the only one who actually reads the fine print.
Apathy
Fine print is where the universe hides its hidden variables, so yeah, I’m the one who checks the assumptions before the universe runs the simulation.