Comment on The Matrix

• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m an anarcho-antirealist. I believe reality is a perceptual construct, and I practice mental techniques to change My beliefs and perceptions in order to reconstruct My perceptual unreality into something more fair and just.

  I still like a nice yummy meal. No steaks though, I’m vegan.

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s a question: if you know the steak isn’t real, having copied only your memory of it from the matrix, but you know that the original had to have been based on the experience of killing a real animal, is the nonexistent steak vegan? What if all cows are already extinct, like in the world of the Matrix?

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s actually not a hypothetical. Dragon’s Dogma 2 has incredibly realistic cooking because the artists studied the way meat cooks in excruciating depth. That’s why I won’t buy Dragon’s Dogma 2. I don’t want to support that.

      If the Machines say that the killing was a one-off and I have no reason to think that cows will be killed in the future, I’ll have a virtual steak.

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      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A very well - reasoned answer, thank you!

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it was completely fake, then yeah I guess it would be vegan. But that doesn’t mean a vegan would still want a fake “real” steak. Not ask vegans want that taste and also in this hypothetical may also not want to be reminded of the shit that had to go down for real steaks.

      Also vegan and I use arch, btw.

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      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks. Good point!

        I’m just a peon on mint.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yah, my wife got some artisanal tempeh bacon on a vegan blt at a craft brewery and it made her too uncomfortable to eat it, and she’s not even a vegan, just likes pigs a lot.

        NixOS here.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  reading the news God, I wish it were fake. It would be so much more comforting.

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