Simulacra levels (and that false consciousness can occur at any/multiple levels) help a lot with understanding why it feels like everyone is lying most of the time. It would have been highly helpful to a younger version of myself, along with someone explicitly admitting that a bunch of the signaling game is either bullshit (read: helps people coordinate to defect together a la kakonomics) or actual scary levels of delusion due to the emotional pain of helplessness along with explaining that admitting as such is low status/a losing move most of the time, thus selecting for it.
Simulacra levels (and that false consciousness can occur at any/multiple levels) help a lot with understanding why it feels like everyone is lying most of the time. It would have been highly helpful to a younger version of myself, along with someone explicitly admitting that a bunch of the signaling game is either bullshit (read: helps people coordinate to defect together a la kakonomics) or actual scary levels of delusion due to the emotional pain of helplessness along with explaining that admitting as such is low status/a losing move most of the time, thus selecting for it.
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(That was not obvious in advanced, but I understand now.)