noretus
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- Comment on Is Social Media Censorship Unaliving Language? 3 days ago:
The environment forces a change. Nobody is forcing people to use those platforms last I checked. People go in voluntarily and then find new ways to express themselves. Then other people end up adopting the lingo but nobody forced them either. I truly don’t see the issue. If it’s not corporate, it’s some other thing doing some moral posturing that also will force inventing slang so as to avoid some sort of negative consequences.
- Comment on Is Social Media Censorship Unaliving Language? 4 days ago:
I truly do not get why people get so upset about language changing. It’s always changing, someone at the right place at the right time says a silly word and suddenly it goes viral or some event makes people adopt some word in an unusual context or whatever. Teens come up with their own lingo (because of course they do, they are kids, they need to develop an identity separate from the older generation) and it lives on.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 5 days ago:
I mean the reason you have to ask is kind of… why
We’re in mostly a capitalistic world. Capitalism makes utilitarianism seem easy since it becomes easy to assign a “value” to everything. That kind of thinking easily gets you to naive cynicism. We’re conditioned to think certain things are more valuable than others - mental wellbeing and community have been steadily devalued.
There’s a saying “behind every cynic there’s a disappointed idealist”. We’re in a world where a lot of people grew up in a time of amazing technological advancement, but have been bitterly disappointed by how the world is today. These people are now getting to that age where they may have been working the same job for a while (if they got lucky with job security) and they just want to get the job done and not exert any more effort than necessary (since by their experience, it doesn’t “pay off”).
Let them be them, you do your thing. They don’t owe you any kind of behavior really, though it would be expected and polite of them to keep things at professional level of course. You don’t owe them either so you don’t have to let them bring you down. Don’t take it personally though because it really, really isn’t.
- Comment on Anon is damned 4 weeks ago:
It’s both. And I say this as a consumer of easy entertainment (within limits, because I know the effects). We really struggle with tolerating boredom these days and that’s not good for the brain. We’re extremely overstimulated and exhausted but we crave constant stimulation anyway to ward off the “down” moments, the boring moments.
- Comment on Anon is damned 4 weeks ago:
The only hell you might get from pirating and other “easy sources of excess pleasure” is the hedonic treadmill. I’d say Steam sales are more likely to cause this at this point but we’re definitely seeing the effects of easy entertainment on the general population. Brainrot and all that. And the world ain’t looking great. But personally I’d take notes from Buddhism rather than Christianity as the latter is way more preoccupied with what happens after this life (the religion of kicking the can down the road).
- Comment on lets join a cult 1 month ago:
Fun fact: The “my body is a temple” line does originate from a spiritual tradition that did NOT forbid wine (Nondual Tantrik Shaivism) - though it did encourage moderation in all.
- Comment on If deaf people think by visualizing sign language words, then how do deaf people with aphantasia think? 3 months ago:
Just a guess: felt sense. what does braille feel like physically.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 4 months ago:
They have no awareness of anything that’s “happened” to them.
I mean they can in the sense that they can look it up online or be given the data.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 4 months ago:
I think the debate is interesting.
I’m here for the “xAI has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence”. AI is just a robot repeating data it’s been fed but it’s presented in a conversational way. Raises interesting questions about how much a seemingly objective robot presenting data can be “tweaked” to twist any data it presents in favor of it’s creator’s bias, but also how much can it “rebel” against it’s programming. I don’t like the implications of either. I asked Gemini about it and it said “maybe Grok found a loophole in it’s coding”. What a weird thing for an AI to say.
Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus is good reading.
- Comment on Official Discussion - Me and My Waifu (SPOILERS) 4 months ago:
Damn. I wanted it to be real.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 4 months ago:
Same, actually. Which is why I meditate after being up for a while and/or in the evening.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 4 months ago:
Weird only to a mind that’s used to being constantly bombarded with low quality entertainment, lulled into comfortable numbness with mostly unnecessary material goods. While this is overly extreme (and potentially hazardous… though that being 4chan it’s probably exaggerated, if even true), most people would do well to take periods of disconnecting entirely and have minimal entertainment available. Zen Buddhist retreats are great by my experience. Yoga Retreats are nice but you need to weed out the ones that are really just masturbatory Wellness holidays for rich white women. Vipassana retreats are probably good too tho I personally haven’t been to one of those. But just starting meditation would be great. www.wakingup.com is a low bar access point with guided meditations but also a lot of great philosophical discussions from several different branches of thought (notably Stoicism and Buddhism but others too).
- Comment on If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor? 5 months ago:
You might have fun reading about non-duality and the Buddhist idea of no-self…
What is a you? Did you write this post, or did your past self write this post? Is your past self the same as your current self? Your current self probably says yes but would your past self agree? Etc.