Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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You can't just brush it off as entertaining.
You're missing the point.
Why is it entertaining?
Why will you pay for that?
Here's an even deeper question.
You know that part of our attempt to build faster and faster computers is so that we can have more and more realistic fictional simulations.
You don't need the newest supercomputer in your laptop.
You were pretty much taken care of on that front in 1995.
And so what's driving our desire to build these insanely complex machines?
Well, how about the ability to play more realistic games?
story-based games?
How about the ability to construct more and more realistic fictional worlds?
Why?
Because it matters.
It matters.
So then we might ask yourself, what are we to make of fiction itself?
And a thoughtless rationalist would say, well, fiction is the opposite of fact.
That's a stupid answer.
And here's one of the reasons.
It's because... There's a lot of reasons.