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    1. Toby‏ @tobyshorin Apr 1
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      If you take this line of thinking seriously, it becomes clear that to make society tenable we must drastically reduce the cost and complexity of investing in one’s physical environment, so that the real world can be compete with gameshttps://twitter.com/matildepark_/status/1245206667417063424 …

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      matilde park @matildepark_
      I keep running into these absolutely cursed fucking comics and reminded of what @tobyshorin was saying about the increasing disparity between gray, controlled real world and colourful, intellectual property’d virtual pic.twitter.com/cf9YfKLk1u
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 1
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      Or you could just let the physical world be cheap and gray as a projection surface for a colorful virtual world. Premise of Vinge’s Rainbow’s End sort of. Comparative advantage rather than competition.

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        1. Toby‏ @tobyshorin Apr 1
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          I'm not sure I prefer this outcome, there's a section of @0x49fa98's most recent story which points to some of the complicationspic.twitter.com/VfcAyPTpgH

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        2. matilde park‏ @matildepark_ Apr 1
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          Who hurt you

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        3. Jonathan Lipps‏ @jlipps Apr 1
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          the fact that we give up on "real" reality so quickly says more about us than about reality, IMO. On the bright side, this is theoretically something we can fix.

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          There will be pods, fear not.

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          Loved that book. It made me reconsider social media!

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          Somehow AR dystopia is even more depressing than bifurcated full color VR vs grey meatspace.

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          Anti-aesthetic is a sign of maturity. Mature minds are clods, right?https://mobile.twitter.com/vgr/status/870800731929952256 …

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          A scientific sensibility is the ability to choose correctly when there is a conflict between truth and beauty.
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