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More than once it's crossed my mind that I have personally encountered a very very very small slice of the real world, and anything outside of that observed on
by bentcorner 4y ago
More than once it's crossed my mind that I have personally encountered a very very very small slice of the real world, and anything outside of that observed on the internet could very well be a fabrication.
I base my belief in what I see online on cross-checking, general trust-worthiness of sources I encounter, and my gut feeling for the difficulty of faking something, but there's nothing stopping a determined adversary from inserting things into my perceived reality.
A sufficiently advanced AI could be generating the internet on the fly just for me and I wouldn't be any the wiser.
- StrangeATractor 4y agoIsn't this the basis for some gen-z conspiracy theory?
- kjs3 4y agoI think the "we're the ones living in the Matrix" meme predates gen-z.
- doublepg23 4y ago“Dead internet theory” but 80% of it is schizo-ramblings that obscures the broader idea.