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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Replying to @visakanv
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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But is it an interesting wrong?pic.twitter.com/r48SJu1Ble
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Replying to @visakanv
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.
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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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Replying to @vgr
Yeah I realise I was abstracting that away
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