if you missed the northern lights a decent social media algorithm would show you the photos that other people (you know, people you socialize with, on social media) took themselves of the northern lights. instead of that though, why not burn through a few amazons and produce a fake image of something that never happened? This is better for reasons we can't articulate right now but just trust us. Our shareholders are very happy about it.
@radicalrobit I really feel like this is nakedly a "live in the pod and eat ze bugs" argument. You don't get to have unmediated human experiences but here! Isn't this simulacrum just as good?