10 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury OP 26 May \ parent \ on: Bubbles to live in mostly_harmless
This comment gobsmacked me, but there's something deeply true in it. And yet, like Niels Bohr said, the opposite is also a great truth: the way of Being adopted by most of the surrounding world is reality, for most workable definitions of reality.
What I'm having my stoned-in-college moment about is how there are all these realities on offer, and you can pick one you like. Better yet, you can create it.
It is flummoxing to imagine how we got here, though. Step by step we have arrived at this?
the way of Being adopted by most of the surrounding world is reality, for most workable definitions of reality.
The movie "Matrix" is all about pointing out and exploring the problems arising from treating social consensus reality as a substitute for physical reality.
Better yet, you can create it.
Sure, and we're here on this site because Satoshi has created new honest money, opening new technological ways of creating new social consensus realities.
Step by step we have arrived at this?
Technically we haven't arrived anywhere, we're still moving. Imagine everybody in 10 years sitting in their realistic metaverses with their AI assistants-with-benefits and reminiscing of the good old days when people complained how alienated they are from reality just because they've read some text messages on a website.
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The movie "Matrix" is all about pointing out and exploring the problems arising from treating social consensus reality as a substitute for physical reality.
Indeed. And the history of the twentieth century, including its death camps and gulags, offers a nice lesson in what you get when you pay insufficient attention to social reality, and the way it intersects physical reality in the most tangible of ways.
Both these realities matter a lot. It's a question of artfully navigating them.
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Of course Bryan Caplan needs a bubble because he supports open borders and immigration.
He needs a bubble to wall off immigrants from third world countries
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