This isn’t exactly a confusion about the model itself, but this seems like the right place to ask this question:
What areas of the world are people able to predict better once they’ve internalized the “simulacrum levels” model? Like, if I go through all the effort of learning which statements and behaviors are “level 1“ or level 3” and what principles go into those distinctions and how the levels relate to each other, then in what way will I be better able to navigate the world?
I ask because this is a very esoteric theory which I only partially understand after ~a couple hours of serious effort, and some people clearly think there’s a big payoff for really internalizing it. However, so far the justification I’ve seen people claim for the payoff has always been in terms of subjective insight and the feeling of understanding, not in terms of improved ability to navigate social situations or predict the trajectories of groups or avoid dangerous people, or any similar feats which I might expect a person could perform if they had a true theory in this area.
This isn’t exactly a confusion about the model itself, but this seems like the right place to ask this question:
What areas of the world are people able to predict better once they’ve internalized the “simulacrum levels” model? Like, if I go through all the effort of learning which statements and behaviors are “level 1“ or level 3” and what principles go into those distinctions and how the levels relate to each other, then in what way will I be better able to navigate the world?
I ask because this is a very esoteric theory which I only partially understand after ~a couple hours of serious effort, and some people clearly think there’s a big payoff for really internalizing it. However, so far the justification I’ve seen people claim for the payoff has always been in terms of subjective insight and the feeling of understanding, not in terms of improved ability to navigate social situations or predict the trajectories of groups or avoid dangerous people, or any similar feats which I might expect a person could perform if they had a true theory in this area.
In other words, what’s the argument that these beliefs pay rent?