The trick is to not live in a single simulation
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The deja vu glitch in the matrix is 2 sims, one time shifted from the other by a short-term memory lag.
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An interesting application is to politics. People who can’t break out of bothsidesism (symmetry) or absolute polarization (antisymmetry) are typically living in a single simulation. Common ones: the economy (stock market), the media narrative (Fox+NYT = single sim) etc.
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In a way the line between sanity and insanity is not content of simulation but number of simulations. One simulation is insanity, whether it is qanon or media or stock market. The only way to break the single-sim spell is to interfere multiple simulations.
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There’s not much value in seeing the narrative violations and glitches of others’ single-sim thought streams. Doesn’t help you with your own.
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Both map-is-not-territory derps and vague “it’s all sims” pop-baudrillardism are lazy patterns of thought. Interferometry is where it’s at. Life seen through double-slitted glasses
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Wrote up a version of this argument last year but I’m still refining ithttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/05/30/the-age-of-diffraction/ …
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The presence of a symmetry or antisymmetry should tip you off that there are more bits than information in your perception. You’re seeing pixelation/aliasing artifacts basically. But you can’t think your way to more raw bits. It’s not an inference problem but an input problem.
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Twitter is a pretty good interference pattern. I counted multiple people who seemed convinced today that a) Biden won, b) Trump won, c) bothsides terrible. All future simulations exist at once on Twitter.
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Bring your simulation into Their simulationhttps://twitter.com/jfairbairn/status/1282166238366457859 …
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