Hmm, maybe I don’t understand the levels. I’d assumed that higher levels include lower ones, rather than denying their existence. It’s absolutely possible, in my world, to recognize that there is a reality, and to still weigh the social appearance against it.
It’s not that higher simulacrum level players can’t do level 1 internally, it’s that if people play higher levels inside an organization, that organization’s information processing is corrupted, and it gets worse at the sorts of things level 1 is good at. There are huge advantages to groups being able to coordinate on level 1, and there are advantages to individuals knowing about all four levels.
To some extent levels 3 and 4, if practiced commonly enough, erode the ability to talk in level 1 language.
Hmm, maybe I don’t understand the levels. I’d assumed that higher levels include lower ones, rather than denying their existence. It’s absolutely possible, in my world, to recognize that there is a reality, and to still weigh the social appearance against it.
It’s not that higher simulacrum level players can’t do level 1 internally, it’s that if people play higher levels inside an organization, that organization’s information processing is corrupted, and it gets worse at the sorts of things level 1 is good at. There are huge advantages to groups being able to coordinate on level 1, and there are advantages to individuals knowing about all four levels.
To some extent levels 3 and 4, if practiced commonly enough, erode the ability to talk in level 1 language.