You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
one thing i have been wondering in the shower, lately: did the world end in 1989? i mean that literally. first, do me a solid and imagine an advanced civilization capable of running perfect, or near-perfect historical simulations. THREAD.https://twitter.com/mattlarraz/status/1227276688834220032 …
there are many reasons future humanity (FH) might want to run sims: pleasure, distraction, and experimentation all come to mind. but history — simulating our past to better understand ourselves — is my favorite. now: what happens when a simulation ends?
a moral question first. is FH comfortable with 'turning off' the lives of billions of simulated beings that think they're real? that maybe are, in some sense, real? or in a world of presumably limitless energy does FH rather simply... let their simulations run?
historical accuracy of any historical sim would of course be of paramount importance. as bugs emerge (inaccuracies or impossible physical phenomena) a team of folks — let's call them referees — would likely patch "the story." but when the story ends, the refs go home. then what?
the cold war, our atomic awakening and the dawn of meaningful computing, would be a JUICY sim. but the cold war ended with the fall of the berlin wall. if that were us — if that is our sim — we were "freed" in 1989. the refs went home thirty years ago.
in a rogue sim, small, unchecked errors in historical accuracy give way to larger errors. things become increasingly unreal. fashion, culture, politics don't make sense because they never happened. i love the kardashians, but listen to me: they didn't happen. and trump? COME ON.
our last few decades are blending together because the differences aren't mapping like they used to. none of this makes sense, but it all feels connected. we are a digital garden full of weeds and shit is just getting weirder. anyway, this is usually where i run out of hot water.
tfw the world ended before you were even born
yea you are actually not real unfortunately!
adore this but feels like a recency bias — it’s just as likely the ‘weirding’ after an end point would be the birth of Christ, the fall of Rome, or any other historical switch
It's just the Boomer media executives funding their own childhood nostalgia
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
