The “bespoke escaped subjective realities magical thinking” megatrend is much further along than we realize. Not because it is actually stealthy, but because by definition it is trying to retreat from headlines instead of appear in them. Appropriately it also lacks a single name.
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The world as a global computer is acquiring a hypervisor capable of running a lot of *global scale* reality VMs that can be nearly unaware of each other. How many can it hold? When does the rivalrous hardware (land, things made of atoms) run out? These are good questions.
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The answer is probably: far more than you think. Software eating world = rivalrous becomes non-rivalrous. Ephemeralization = more with less. “Give me a place to stand and I’ll create a world”
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There’s just so many people thinking good thoughts about this stuff, I’ve been doing more compiling and collecting than original thinking. Ratio’d in a good way. Hopefully refactor camp this year will be a good place to pull together a big pile of ideas.
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The chapter on non-Euclidean geometry in Edna Kramer’s history of math is titled “geometry for universe builders”. Feels like we’re on the cusp of non-Euclidean geometry for subjective universe builders.
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A very dated and narrowly tech-centric version of this idea is in David Gelernter’s 1993 “Mirror Worlds”. Data point that we’ve been headed this way for a looong time.https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Worlds-Software-Universe-Shoebox/dp/019507906X …
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Reminds me of acrnm, kinda - you'd notice someone wearing it back in the day because their jacket had a kind of futuristic cut and a specific type of milspec binding ribbon zipper pulls, but otherwise very grey man (albeit fashionably so)
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I wonder if all of this was accelerated by the rise in popularity of Serial/Making a Murder-type content in concert with more private groups online, people turned into mini Sarah Koenigs trying to make stories where there aren't...but what if this one, this time is different?
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Easy to imagine a social network that allows you to pick one of a few pre-defined (or customizable?) moderation filters - no posts are banned (except for legal reasons), but only users subscribed to the most permissive moderation guidelines see them
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Not too different from the way Twitter block lists have emerged - some of the truly massive ones exists for people to block as many of their ideological opponents as possible, no matter the size of the account
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