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- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 4 months ago:
Yeah? The executives are firing people, to lower costs, make the numbers look better…? Which makes the owners of the business money?
Why wouldn’t the executives get bonuses or golden parachutes if let go? They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.
Executives don’t make products, provide services, or add any productive value. They are just the face of the owners, and will do the “hard” things for them.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 4 months ago:
Only landowning or capitalist white men could vote and participate in politics…
- Comment on Pointless existence 5 months ago:
Depends on the school of Buddhism sure. That’s true. Some don’t have anything resembling what we call God or even gods tho.
- Comment on Pointless existence 5 months ago:
I know, but still, the oldest schools of Buddhism don’t have anything that would equate to what we in the west consider a god, or gods.
I know that in east asia, south-east Asia etc., there are schools of Buddhism that do have gods.
But Buddhism being in many ways a rejection of brahamical religion in north india/nepal, also rejected the idea of gods when it first started to develop. I think that’s pretty uncontroversial no?
- Comment on Pointless existence 5 months ago:
Not non-religious, but Buddhists don’t believe in god 🤷♂️ it’s something
- Comment on New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time 8 months ago:
Honestly the let’s plays will be epic tho. Pure chaos.
- Comment on Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper 9 months ago:
We need to define consciousness here…
To me everything you describe is related to the mind. Not consciousness.
To me consciousness is the observer of the mind, not the mind.
Like, what is “sensing” your thoughts? What is “behind” the mind’s eyes?
That’s consciousness.
And it IS universal. It’s indivisible and eternal (doesn’t change).
Your observer is always neutrally observing. All judgments and shifts happen in the mind. Which the consciousness just observes.
- Comment on Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics? 9 months ago:
Honestly the only way to make sense of any of this that I have ever found is panpsychism, Advaita Vedanta etc.
This is all just a “dream” or non-computational “simulation”. Everything is consciousness. Physics is an emergent feature of consciousness.
- Comment on The Genetic Arms Race | How CRISPR and AI Destroy the World - YouTube 1 year ago:
It’s not. It’s about the real implications it might have, such as for eugenics and genetically enhanced soldiers. But it also does talk a lot about the real good it does and can do. But the main points are about those two topics. That like with every technology, the issue is the social and political structures around their use. And also how eugenics never really went away. In many ways it’s using CRISPR to start a conversation about eugenics tbh.
- Comment on The Genetic Arms Race | How CRISPR and AI Destroy the World - YouTube 1 year ago:
You don’t know what you are talking about lmao
The Why Files is one of the best YouTube channels out there. They talk about fringe and conspiracy subjects but debunk them. You didn’t even watch the video and you are just making a BUNCH of assumptions that have nothing to do with it.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 1 year ago:
Luddites were not anti-technology. They saw the progress of technology IN a primitive capitalist system and understood that technology would never benefit them, and always be used to subjugate them more.
If technology only benefits 0.1% of the world, and lead to the world dying, does it benefit humanity at all?
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 year ago:
Sorry I would rather not :/
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 year ago:
For my city, just for a very specific example, it takes less than one afternoon and 80 bucks total (no fees and almost no capital fund requirements) to open a corporation. It takes weeks if not months to open a coop and it costs 2500 bucks PER member.
I don’t know the specifics of all cities and states everywhere in the world. But the system is built to benefit private corporations much more, as it’s a capitalist system where owning capital equals power, and workers are a commodity.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 year ago:
Like the literal law. In most places it’s a much more involved and expensive process to even open a coop compared to a traditional private company. It takes more paperwork, more fees, more capital funds etc. Also, getting investors in (when they can’t own the coop, as they are not workers) or even loans from private or state banks/institutions is much harder. There are several programs incentivising people to open private companies, giving them tax credits, making the application and approval process easier, giving access to funds and education etc. How many there are for coops? In most places around the world there are 0. In what ways does it appear the opposite to you…? Like this all seems very self-evident to me.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 year ago:
The system literally disincentives and makes coops less competitive.
Opening a coop is harder, more expensive, have less subsidies or tax benefits, less opportunities for investments/loans etc.
And all of this makes running coops more expensive, thus less competitive, thus the ones that do manage to open either can’t grow or die.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 year ago:
Coyote Bao just sounds like a health code violation lmao
- Comment on What animal could you take in a fight? 1 year ago:
I play fight with my cat and I can say if they were taking it seriously I would have no chances.
- Comment on V Rising - Official Release Date Trailer 1 year ago:
Vrising
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 1 year ago:
His games have good politics, that’s something 🤷♂️
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 1 year ago:
I find it crazy how basically every Marxist since, well Marx, has pretty much clairvoyance powers. It’s not that, it’s just that material analysis really is the best way to understand reality. But when all you have are vibes, ideology and moralism, Marxists do seem like witches.
But basically, just read and watch some Marxists my friend. Even light-Marxists like Yanis Varoufakis are good at “predicting” the future.
We have all been expecting this since the 1800s lmao.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I buy what I believe will be best for me. I don’t feel bad to buy from x company instead of y. I just buy it and don’t give a fuck.
I am VERY aware that my individual consumption actions will have 0 impact on anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don’t think you understood me. What I mean is “which product do I consume under capitalism” is a useless question. No consumption under capitalism will lead to a better world. Buying from fairphone or apple will make 0 difference to what actually matters.
Revolution is not a state of consumption. And surviving under capitalism won’t make revolution less likely either. So it’s a false dichotomy. Buying apple instead of fairphone won’t make a revolution less likely.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Cause capitalism was born with the Big Bang and will die with the heat death of the universe right buddy? Lmao.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You are very naive if you think fairphone is trying to “do good”. They are, like every single corporation under capitalism, trying to make a profit. They found a niche and are carving their market share within it. If they could, they would become Apple. If you don’t think so, again, you’re being naive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It doesn’t matter if they are “bad” or not bro. The issue is the system. Even in a perfect capitalist world where all companies were “fair”something, we would still be destroying the planet with climate change and exploiting the labour of people in the third-world.
And who cares about “perfect”? I only care about meaningful change that helps not destroy the planet. Buying a fairphone is not it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
There are no “good” brands under capitalism. The issue is not of the moral failing of individual companies. We can’t solve the issues of capitalism by “consuming” right.
You think fairphone has no slave-labour rare-earth metals in them?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It really doesn’t matter… there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just use what’s more practical or better in any way for you.