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though also now that I think of it, the second period simulated the full creation of the world itself didn't it? it had all of the countries on earth, the same history, etc. and the people who lived there didn't know their world was fake outside of sickle and behemo. and the nature of training ai is to create hundreds and even thousands of generations to complete the task you want it to in the way you want it to, and they did their job so well that they'd eventually created completely sentient ai. whether we assume watching us takes place in the first or second period it's still possible for it to have taken place long before michaela's birth, even if how they percieved the amount of time spent differently than, say, the first period scientists would.