I was a, a. What do you think? I loved it. But i felt more both pangs of sadness for is people, yes. And also, i foundii, i there was something in the egocentrism and the rampant solepcism that they expressed that made me angry at them. Oreric davis says, philip k dick was good about capturing the texture of life to day. He was prophetic about that aspect of it. It's really kind of, and some of the characters even say something like that. There's a kind of desperate shittiness to everything.
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is just a computer generated model created by an advanced civilization that has reached “technological maturity.” What does the growing popularity of simulation theories reveal about contemporary life? Are any of the arguments for simulation theory compelling or are they just post-hoc ways of justifying what you already believe on faith? If we are living in a simulation, does that mean we can go around killing people? Would it change anything about how we should live? Rodney Ascher’s (Room 237, The Nightmare) excellent documentary "A Glitch in the Matrix" gets the discussion going.
Plus the return of the VBW does conceptual analysis segment - a careful, rigorous, systematic inquiry into the concept “cringe.”*
*Note: if you think the opening segment is itself cringe, that’s because we’re doing seventh dimensional Zoomer meta shit and you just didn’t get it.
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