User_4272894

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[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I mean, Descartes had brain in a vat theories well before the 1980s, and Plato's allegory of the cave is fundamentally the same. My position was that "the reason we're talking about it again all of a sudden is because one idiot got on the podcast of another idiot and poorly explained it to the throngs of their uncritical fans".

[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Musk said it in Rogan a few weeks ago, and it became a justified belief overnight. It had huge flaws in logic when he said it, and no one who is parroting the talking point today is thinking beyond "the real life Ironman says we live in the matrix".

[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I was thinking there's a surprising lack of billboards and ads.