the fear that we might be living in a simulation is more like the realization that we HAVE been living in a hyperreal mass media simulation since circa 1930
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i’m curious if you’ve noticed a shift in how OK it is to say this out loud? can’t tell if great weirding or just becoming an adult
you could say it’s a new term for something plato and shakespeare were on about, idk how much grief they took for it
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makes sense
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“Various forms of media function as simulations of the world that we live in. When I say simulations here, I don’t mean things like The Sims. As Stephen West puts it, “a simulation can be thought of any imitation of how a real world system or process works over time.”
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