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{{a|devil|{{image|delamination|png|The moment of [[BlackStar]]. {{vsr|2017}}}}}}The [[JC]] is cultivating a theory that, at a point in the last decade, the ''online'' universe — the one you’re in now, dear reader, as you peer through crusted specs through this frame into our fully tractable simulacrum — and the ''real'' universe, out there, with trees and flowers and basil fotherington-tomas<ref>‘I simply don’t care a row of buttons whether it was a goal or not nature alone is beattful’</ref> (note to file: we will need a snappy word for each: I vote “[[Offworld]]” and “[[Onworld]]”) diverged — “[[Great delamination|delaminated]]” — and each set off along its own independent, meandering trajectory. | {{a|devil|{{image|delamination|png|The moment of [[BlackStar]]. {{vsr|2017}}}}}}The [[JC]] is cultivating a theory that, at a point in the last decade, the ''online'' universe — the one you’re in now, dear reader, as you peer through crusted specs through this frame into our fully tractable simulacrum — and the ''real'' universe, out there, with trees and flowers and basil fotherington-tomas<ref>‘I simply don’t care a row of buttons whether it was a goal or not nature alone is beattful’</ref> (note to file: we will need a snappy word for each: I vote “[[Offworld]]” and “[[Onworld]]”) diverged — “[[Great delamination|delaminated]]” — and each set off along its own independent, meandering trajectory. | ||
There was a point — we date it, a bit arbitrarily, to [[10 January 2016]] — the [[Onworld]] and [[Offworld]] finally lost contact. | There was a point — we date it, a bit arbitrarily, to [[10 January 2016]] — at which the [[Onworld]] and [[Offworld]] finally lost contact. | ||
They now bear | They now bear no relation to each other. The separate realms have become “[[non-overlapping magisteria]],” to use {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}’s excellent term.<ref>{{br|Rocks of Ages}}.</ref> It is a [[category error]] to apply standards developed in one to situations arising in the other. | ||
=== The Onworld and the Offworld=== | === The Onworld and the Offworld=== | ||
Online — the “[[onworld|Onworld]]” — is unilateral: one-to-many, deterministic, delineated, rigid, scaled, binary, definitive, eliminative and final. | Online — the “[[onworld|Onworld]]” — is unilateral: one-to-many, deterministic, delineated, rigid, scaled, binary, definitive, eliminative and final. | ||
Like the code is it made out of, it is exact, precise, machined. | |||
It has, therefore, zero-tolerance. “Tolerance” implies sloppiness, ambiguity and weakness. The Onworld is ''digital''; tolerance is ''analogue''. | It has, therefore, zero-tolerance. “Tolerance” implies sloppiness, ambiguity and weakness. The Onworld is ''digital''; tolerance is ''analogue''. | ||