The you you are now and the you you were then are not the same you, you’re just playing in that you’s position.
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I call this piece: I am really stressed and got high last night while watching Ex Machina and wondered about immutable data structures for previously simulated states.
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Replying to @generativist
I have so many thoughts about this but at a high level: we have to collapse the infinite into a reductive subset if we want to reason about it. Our brains can’t handle infinity.
@Harkaway made similar observation about Gnomon and the ‘eternal life’ it gives to a snapshot of him.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
If I had not a care in the world, I think I would just read simulation theory fiction and speculations all day, every day.
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Replying to @generativist
I guess I believe we live in a simulation but I mean that in a very specific way that is not st all what it sounds like. Our minds create the simulation for us, using narratives to connect otherwise unrelated nodes in our heads.
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Replying to @mykola
Yep. Our brain is our PlayStation.
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Replying to @generativist
And the inability to sync state between brains is the source of most strife in the modern world. Especially in the global context collapse we’re living through.
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Replying to @mykola
I agree with this completely. (Except, it's also the source of most of the fun! Just...right now the downsides dominate.)
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Replying to @generativist
Yeah the alternative is a true monoculture so there has to be room in the middle. But when nuke-armed societies that literally cannot model each other accurately compete for resources, woof!
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Yea. Turn down the annealing temperature, World!
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