the meta-simulation hypothesis is that any ideology which wants to grow past a certain point will eventually come to simulate every aspect of a regular ol’ religion on its own terms
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the X-shaped holes will all get filled one way or another
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this helped clarify a dynamic for me. in the same way there's a "god-shaped hole," there are "X-shaped holes" for X a bunch of deep, fundamental concepts like sin, and any sufficiently mature ideology eventually adapts to fill these holes one way or the other t.co/k5hg64eKrP
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you can view the simulation hypothesis itself as an example of this (hence the name), a variant of “veil of maya / material world is an illusion / living in a god’s dream”-type mysticism specifically memetically adapted for The Digital Age