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Morgan

People referring to offline interactions as IRL as if the people we talk to online are some sort of computer simulation

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Athena L.M.

@raphaelmorgan if you die in online you die in real life or something

a7

@raphaelmorgan@mastodon.lol its completely plausible that you are all a computer simulation
irl could not even exist
what if im all alone
oh god

Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

@raphaelmorgan I prefer meatspace, but some people find that offensive.

eviloatmeal

@raphaelmorgan You put your ideas into the transporter, and they get completely dematerialised, and then a copy of the ideas get reconstructed on the other screen. So are they the same ideas, or are they other, identical ideas? I think that by very meandering, unrelated Star Trek logic, the people in your computer are not real life.

Morgan

@eviloatmeal the people who wrote the posts are real though
This post that you're seeing isn't a real person, but I, the person writing it out, am

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