I once saw a face. Looking closer, it was actually a pattern in treebark.

Like physical things, do ideas have independent existence? Are they arranged in a space?

That might break the statehood contract. Which would lead to repercussions. Which would lead to more repercussions…

As everybody involved well knows, of course.

Or infect you. Don’t forget your hand sanitizer and mask. And keep your distance. Literally everything is crawling with toxic germs.

Because “knowing it” isn’t the whole picture.

It’s actually only a very tiny part of the picture.

You’re asking about what motivates you. Knowing can motivate. Experience motivates more tho. So does habit and some other stuff.

Ah. Nobody can afford un-enshittified products anymore.

It’s progressive invisible poverty.

the “hopelessly lost” aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to doubt the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won’t escape it. So success becomes failure because it directly increases your lostness.

Video games lack that “hopelessly lost” aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back. (Right?). So I’m excluding them.

That’s a big if. And “real world” is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.

Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you’ll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.

First : the algorithm predicts thar our behavior today will be like our behavior yesterday. Which makes sense.

Second : what you eat determines how you poop. And they do control what we eat. So that makes sense too.

So both work together.

What’s a “commercial break”? Arrrrrrr!

Actually I don’t know anybody who hates trans people. Tbf it’s a pretty dull subject.

It might be voice to text. It sometimes gets carried away.

Just put little silver skulls on the front of your hats already.

Human society does the same thing.

We’re ok when we talk about what we saw.

Less so when we talk about what somebody else saw.

Crazier and crazier when we talk about what somebody said about what somebody said about what somebody saw. Which is arguably the internet.

“informed”

Lol

But I kid. Your logic fails to escape the box I propose, I think. I think that only direct observation achieves good reliability. That and maybe conversation with personal friends.

Beyond that, big nope. It’s the epistemological equivalent of drinking out of lead cups except the damage is quicker.

Everybody say it all together now…

I’m an intelligent, autonomous, free-thinking individual!

Instead of demanding that the peers get vaccinated they could just stay away from the peers.

It was a wrong turn anyway, so I edited it. Sorry. I hoped to catch it before you replied.

But my point was the arrogance and disrespect. I find it shocking. The actual form of the insult was secondary.

Agreed