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« Simulated or not, we live, we feel, we love, we suffer, we create, and we will all die leaving its trace, tiny, in the simulation. What's the point of knowing? You should always prefer darkness to science. Ignorance is good comrade, and truth never makes happiness. We might as well be simulated and happy. »
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« Even so, I don't »
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« Love is not being able to prevent the heart from trampling intelligence. Simulated or not, we live, we feel, we love, we suffer, we create, and we will all die leaving its trace, tiny, in the simulation. What's the point of knowing? You should always prefer darkness to science. Ignorance is good comrade, and truth never makes happiness. We might as well be simulated and happy. The journalist has two enemies: censorship and information. We are blind to anything that could prove us wrong. It's human. We're not rational. We are ready to twist reality if the challenge is not to lose altogether. We want an answer to the least of our anxieties, and a way to think about the world without questioning our values, our emotions, our actions. Look at climate change. We never listen to scientists. Nothing's moving. It is from the entire human species that the simulation awaits a reaction. There will be no supreme savior. We have to save ourselves. He has retained only eleven characters, and guesses that alas, eleven is already far too much. His editor begged him, Victor, pity, it's too complicated, you'll lose your readers, simplify, prune, go to the essentials. »
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