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I think the cost of information production and dissemination has vastly outpaced the cost of information verification. And it's only getting worse.

We're all getting shaken in a bag and I don't know where we'll fall.

285 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 11 Sep
I don't know where we'll fall.

I think it's pretty obvious. When everything may be fiction, we do/will choose our preferred fiction. Unless verification catches up, fiction will keep spreading until we are all living in literal video games where every atom/pixel is our preferred fiction.

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You don't think people will get accustomed to just accepting a high level of uncertainty?

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306 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 11 Sep
You don't think people will get accustomed to just accepting a high level of uncertainty?

I think accepting uncertainty means not seeking certainty which means not living an informed life which makes a video game life equal to an unknowable real life hence people will choose a video game life.

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I expect many people to choose the video game life, either way.

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160 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 12 Sep

Me too. It's going to be so boring. Maybe we should legalize LSD to keep life interesting.

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Obviously

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I wrote a couple of paragraphs about the "gamification of life" earlier, under Natalia/Billy's convo and deleted it. Should have probably just hit post on it.

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That's the second time you mention this in 24h, buddy. Do you know what causes you to feel this way? (As if things are fully out of control, I guess?)

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