patricktoba t1_it85wk7 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:05 PM

Reply to comment by Kawawaymog in Thoughts on Full Dive - Are we in one right now? by fignewtgingrich

Did the hero dose. 5g PE. Same experience. We’re all one player on infinity accounts of a MMORPG.

Kawawaymog t1_it8b2sq wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:39 PM

God damnit man that is the single best most concise explanation I’ve ever heard. I’d ask your permission to steal it but we’re the same entity so I guess that’s irrelevant?

StarChild413 t1_itaejk3 wrote on October 22, 2022 at 2:59 AM

> I’d ask your permission to steal it but we’re the same entity so I guess that’s irrelevant?

And that's why this idea could never catch fire on a societal scale, as imagine if someone tried to use this argument on you with your personal property

Kawawaymog t1_itanpyi wrote on October 22, 2022 at 4:29 AM

I don’t think anyone here is suggesting that this line of thinking is any tangible impact on our day to day lives. Beyond perhaps having more empathy for others.

StarChild413 t1_itaq28g wrote on October 22, 2022 at 4:55 AM

But it seems like a bit of a garden-path way to say have more empathy

Kawawaymog t1_itarsa2 wrote on October 22, 2022 at 5:15 AM

The point of the line of thinking isn’t to encourage people to have more empathy. It’s just an interesting thing to talk about. Things don’t have to have a real world application to be interesting.