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Not sure I agree with this. Once you look closely enough, the distinction collapses. I used to think otherwise, but that was largely based on a refusal to loo
by mansoon 4y ago
Not sure I agree with this.
Once you look closely enough, the distinction collapses.
I used to think otherwise, but that was largely based on a refusal to look, knowing that if I did, the perceived reality would fall apart, and the naked nothing would be revealed.
- maxbond 4y agoWhat do you mean by parasocial here?
- mansoon 4y agoBidirectional channel. TCP. But with respect to the shared net. The experience that makes a dent in the fabric of reality as shared or known by all, personalizes the universe to a subdomain. Once I had the words. Now that’s gone too.
- maxbond 4y agoFor sure, but I think the confusion here is that that's more or less the opposite of how most people use it. Like for me, the way I experience parasocial relationships most vividly is in educational YouTubers with a particular niche. I'll binge their videos and then they become emblematic of that domain of knowledge to me. And I'll have little imagined chats with them when I have ideas about that domain, where they generally take the opposite side of a view I might be developing and debate me. But really this is just the voice I've always talked to in my head wearing a mask, I don't know who these people are. To borrow your analogy, they're sending unicast datagrams, and I'm sending TCP to their same address, but there's a firewall rule remapping it to localhost. If the words come to you, I'm still listening, but there's 0 Pascals of pressure.
- dsr_ 4y agoIf you define a term differently from most other people, it's on you to make the translations. If you're a solipsist, it doesn't matter, but then nothing does.