a simulation could pause for a thousand external years without its inhabitants noticing the gap.
it could also initialize a person with forty years of memories from years that never ran.
nothing in your own memory could tell you whether yours did.
misinformation often comes from misinterpretation, and misinterpretation from misunderstanding: not being able to reason through a field itself, nor through its connections to other fields, without the full scope of economics, physics, and science.
the media publishes what it doesn't understand, and passes off the confidence of a headline as the competence of the writer.
ladies. gentlemen. agents... the oscar goes to @arikuschnir
holy fruit fly.
we just dropped a real connectome into an ai world model and watched it casually navigate a harbor it thinks is real.
that fly has no idea it's in a simulation.
neither do we.




