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Both beliefs are fine, but please realize the hypocrisy (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] User_4272894 10 points 6 months ago

I mean, Descartes had brain in a vat theories well before the 1980s, and Plato's allegory of the cave is fundamentally the same. My position was that "the reason we're talking about it again all of a sudden is because one idiot got on the podcast of another idiot and poorly explained it to the throngs of their uncritical fans".