Assuming "The Matrix", all success is actually failure.

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t even know what you’re trying to say

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• Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you’ll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.

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  • Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If the benchmark of success is having the skills to do something in the “real world”, everything you do with a “real world” component would be successful including Mathematics, Creative writing, language skills, critical thinking skills, etc.

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    • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a big if. And “real world” is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.

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• cloudless@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are achievements in video games actually failures?

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  • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the “hopelessly lost” aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to question the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won’t escape it. So success becomes failure then.

    Video games lack that “hopelessly lost” aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back.

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0f6QgrXwhM

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