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.
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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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I think you'd be selling yourself short because the challenge of reinventing beliefs from scratch seems like something you'd do pretty readily. The real question would be how much someone would pay to see the world the way you do, how much would they pay?
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Which now bedlgs the questions of is it a permanent one-time thing, does it updste for free when your worldview changes, or is it a subscription service?
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Also how cool would that subscription service be if you could swap to different people's views at your convenience?
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This is called “identification” in something called “fiction”


