Genius
@Genius@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 5 days ago:
I simply don’t have the stomach for rape or genocide. My reason tells me these things might in some future be be necessary, if there were a contrived situation in which a madman asked me to rape someone or he’ll nuke the world. But my “ick factor” disagrees, and would not permit me to act as I reason. Fortunately, I cannot see the likelihood of such a situation in my lifetime. I have a reasonable certainty of upholding my principles if I always condemn those who rape or genocide. Well, as long as I don’t get it into my head that CNC is rape.
I do not understand why you are so opposed to humility. I don’t know everything. I have access to no fundamental great truth of the world. I recognise my feelings on right and wrong to be just that - feelings. You find the smallness of my ego offensive. This doesn’t make any sense to me.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 5 days ago:
I think all rape is bad, due to my utilitarianism, and my conviction that rape is a deeply violating act which causes suffering that cannot be made up for
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 5 days ago:
Data is nothing without context.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 5 days ago:
You’re a moral objectivist, too? Shall I start calling you Ms Rand?
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 6 days ago:
You don’t need objective truth to hate Trump. You can just subjectively believe rape is wrong. Are you saying you don’t have a subjective opinion against rape?
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 6 days ago:
The point of science isn’t to produce data. It’s to produce conclusions. The conclusions will be different.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
Objective in the second way means that people performing the same actions will get the same results regardless of cultural or personal biases.
I guarantee you that if a Christian and an atheist are given the same prayer healing treatment, the Christian will see a stronger placebo effect. Try the same experiment on the efficacy of faith healing in Afghanistan and in Sweden, you’ll get different results.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
Are you saying the Trump administration are poststructuralists who believe everything is open to interpretation?
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
But science is “objective” to the extent that experiments are repeatable by any any given person following the same methodology will be the same results.
No, the beliefs of the researcher are a confounding variable in any experiment. This is called observer bias. Most researchers believe in disputed ideas like personhood, spacetime, and objects, which influence their scientific conclusions. This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Science exists within our socially constructed world. A truly objective epistemology would be incomprehensible to us, because we are not objectively perceiving or thinking creatures.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
You religious quacks are what’s wrong with science. Worshipping the idea of science instead of using the scientific method as a tool.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power.
Calling people who disagree with you mentally ill is one of the reasons poststructuralists say you’re oppressing them.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
The 4 guy is a lemmy.ml user and the dumb fuck guy has been banned for incivility
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
There are no undeniable facts. Science doesn’t prove anything objectively, it merely provides evidence to support or reject certain ideas.
- Comment on Skill issue 1 week ago:
Halo 3 released on better hardware, so they included huge multiplayer maps like Sandtrap, but they hadn’t yet realised that huge maps require faster traversal. As a result, your Spartan moves around like a sack of wet potatoes.
Halo 2 has the best slow multiplayer because of the tighter maps, and Halo 5 has the best fast multiplayer because of the traversal tools.
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 1 week ago:
That’s true, but irrelevant. We’re talking about managing retirement funds. I’m not going to live longer than my retirement funds last. Dying earlier doesn’t change that.
- Comment on Anon calls in for financial advice 1 week ago:
I know when I’m going to die, because I’m an independent free thinker. I refuse to face my death on anyone’s terms but my own. I intend to live a rich and fulfilling life, watch my family grow, and then end it at a time of my own choosing, after giving all of my grandkids the tools they need to go on without me.
If I died to any means but suicide, I wouldn’t think it fair. You can’t fire me, I quit. It’s my life and I’m going to be in control until the last second.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah
- Comment on got any others? 3 weeks ago:
All corporations benefit from public services.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Yes. People doubling down on proving their own points is a normal thing.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah having it as well is good. Using only it is inhumane and barbaric.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
I like immigrants. They’re so much more interesting than most people.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
You shouldn’t have to apply to be a citizen of somewhere you’ve lived your whole life. If your parents were immigrants and you’re not, you should have dual citizenship from birth.
Also, citizenship shouldn’t exist, but if it has to, it should be permissive enough that someone could never be refused citizenship of the only country they’ve ever lived in.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
tbh I had no idea Europe was so racist. Citizenship based on “blood” sounds like something out of the middle ages.
- Comment on Hopefully, Future School Kids Will Have to Write Essays About This 3 weeks ago:
2024 Twitter screenshot, ew.
Petition for the mods to ban X screenshots
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Dual ctizenship. Have both. Let the kid be of two nations.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Because their family has lived in Germany for a hundred years and they have no link to another place in living memory?
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- Comment on Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
Just because it uses a different mechanism to achieve federation you’re going to say that it doesn’t count as federation? That’s wild.
No. I’m going to say it doesn’t count as federation because it doesn’t achieve federation.
Actually, we need some new language to describe what Bluesky is. Federations are geopolitical alliances between equals. But Bluesky instances are centralised, with one relay acting as a truth source for many PDS servers. So to extend the analogy with a hierarchical geopolitical alliance… well that’s an empire. Bluesky is an empire. Bluesky is designed with an imperial mechanism. Bluesky is imperialised. That’s the new word for what Bluesky is.
- Comment on Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
So Bluesky doesn’t have any federated servers, and couldn’t federate with itself even if there were other servers.
It’s not fediverse.
- Comment on Bluesky 4 weeks ago:
Can two relays communicate with each other?
