Beff deliberately obscures any actual point he has with layers of irony and nonsense technobabble. The text you’ve quoted has numerous possible readings because of this, some of them involving “consciousness” and some of them not.
I don’t know how deliberate it is. Tons of influential people in addition to Bezos, like John Mearsheimer, Joseph Nye, Glenn Greenwald etc, grew up and spent their entire lives and careers without exposure to stuff like the Sequences or even HPMOR.
And it really, really shows; they regularly lapse into and out of almost Tyler Durden-level incoherence (e.g. “You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”).
Beff deliberately obscures any actual point he has with layers of irony and nonsense technobabble. The text you’ve quoted has numerous possible readings because of this, some of them involving “consciousness” and some of them not.
I don’t know how deliberate it is. Tons of influential people in addition to Bezos, like John Mearsheimer, Joseph Nye, Glenn Greenwald etc, grew up and spent their entire lives and careers without exposure to stuff like the Sequences or even HPMOR.
And it really, really shows; they regularly lapse into and out of almost Tyler Durden-level incoherence (e.g. “You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”).