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  • This is the entire point of academia though. If you were in a math PhD program you would have much better access to the resources to build the background knowledge you need to explore this topic, and then you would literally be paid to research it, and then possibly paid to manage a whole team of people interested the topic, and paid to teach classes on it and publish book chapters, and so on. People have this misconception (not saying you do, but this is a very common sentiment) that academia is this ivory tower which gate keeps knowledge, when the reality is that it’s just a framework for enabling knowledge discovery. The reason most people outside of academia don’t publish original research isn’t some conspiracy. It’s because engaging in original research is a full time job which often requires a lot of money and resources normal people don’t have.






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    28 days ago

    This is actually a very good argument for simulation theory, since if some species ever manages to synthesize consciousness beyond natural biology, then the vast majority of all consciousness will exist in black hole entropy farms in the post-star universe, making it almost a statistical certainly that we are one such farm.