It’s actually amazing how much effort people will put into refusing to listen. Seems like our precious models of reality are *priceless* to us even when they’re actually worth idk like 20 bucks tops
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You’re approaching the pricing wrong. The answer is always all the money you have. The main thing you buy with money is term falsification insurance. If “reality is that which doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it”, money is that which enables you to escape for a while.
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In a way. It reveals that you think of reality as a product you buy and sell as a totality. True of a few key pieces of it, like say an organized religion for hedgehogs. But mostly it’s an a la carte unbundled subscription to many ‘truths’ which must be repeatedly confirmed.
You buy a sandwich and eat it, you confirm the ‘reality’ that you are immortal for another 6 hours. Price: $5. We rarely skip eating so long that our de facto belief in our own immortality is falsified. Even fasting doesn’t get there.
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You have to starve for like a week or so before the immortality belief is threatened and the reality of the proposition “must eat to continue living” becomes viscerally true for you.
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I was thinking of it kind of like, if someone gave me $100k I would volunteer to decide (if this could be semi-enforced somehow) to lose all certainty in any of my beliefs and have to to rework from scratch. Actually... $50k
But yea I know it gets icky in the details
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And actually yeah $1m++ is correct for you within the parlour game I’m making up, just extrapolating from me + years of experience

