We're all in the matrix.
We're all in the matrix.
Remember back in 1999, when you saw The Matrix, and it was all cool, and you were stoned like "DUUUUDE, WHAT IF WE'RE IN THE MATRIX RIGHT NOW??? HOW WOULD WE KNOW??? WHOOOAAAA!!!!"
And then 25 years passed, and you're too busy talking about......
gestures wildly to everything
......all this?
Yeah. Still in the matrix. Life doesn't make sense, unless you realize this is all one user fucking around with the code.
First he removes all the payphones. Then he just asks the question "I wonder how we can make things even dumber....", and finally he increases the absurdity to max levels because it makes him laugh at the suffering.
Oh my god, I know who's running the simulation......
"Hey there, it's Josh. We're checking out The Matrix today! I heard this Earth place has some really stupid AI, so it's time for NEW GAME!!!
Never got into simulation theory. It just seems like standard monotheism but put into a modern IT framework with an unnamed creator.
It just solves everything by introducing another level of abstraction 😶🌫️
Another view of it is if people mostly know you through remote-working, social media, computer games etc., then the "digital you" is something with non-physics rules that you can adapt analogously to the matrix.
The machines in the Matrix really nailed it when they made the 1990s the choice as the peak of human civilization for the simulation.
If I had any part: "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the dancing badgers?"
Also, some aspects of the matrix (as a concept) seem silly with today's society. You don't need to lie about it, I already live mostly digitally and would be fine with my body being used as a battery or whatever.
I'm at the point where a medsci student could probably convince me to let them preserve my brain (chemical fixation if anything like that has potential to be reversed). Though I would wish to have some form of revival contract (with different acceptable scenarios) to not wake up to the same/worse conditions.
If the simulation was really controlled by Josh from Let's Game It Out, why isn't it lagging because of all the random crap he built?