If you want to make true believers, bend the spoon.

· Bits and Bobs 2/3/25
  • If you want to make true believers, bend the spoon.
    • Imagine you realize we're living in the Matrix and you want to convince other people that that's true: to make true believers of them.
    • What do you do?
    • You perform something that is easy if we live in the Matrix, and impossible if we don't.[acd]
    • Like the kid in the oracle's apartment in the first Matrix, bending the spoon.
      • It looks like he's controlling it with his mind–a miracle.
      • But really he just understands he's in the Matrix and has hacked some bit of code for the spoon.
      • Less a miracle worker, more a script kiddie.
    • If you see a new paradigm and want to make others believe, bend the spoon in a way that's easy in your new paradigm and impossible in the old paradigm.