I feel like the theme of the 2020s is epistemology.

For those who aren't aware, epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of knowledge, as in,

- What does it mean to say you "know" something?
- What does it mean for something to be "truth"?
- What is "real"? How do you "know" that?
- What is the difference between "belief" and "knowledge"?
- What's the best way to go about finding more of this "knowledge" stuff, whatever it is?
- What are the limits of knowledge?

@malcircuit I had not expected dystopia to require so much reading.
And I don't just mean this thread, which is extremely useful - so much reading on social history and the supposed "AI" industry, on cognition, …
@parsingphase Yeah, turns out the end of civilization is quite complicated when you're in it lol