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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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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