jannaultheal
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- Comment on Is the damsel in distress trope just independent? 4 days ago:
If they’re all inconsistent then the real world is inconsistent and therefore the real world doesn’t exist since inconsistent systems don’t have models. But all the women who think that the damsel in distress trope is harmless fun/perpetuates sexist stereotypes do exist, and they are models so I don’t think the theory is inconsistent.
- Comment on Is the damsel in distress trope just independent? 5 days ago:
Yes, you’re right (except it’s **not ** a joke). Not sure why the other person seems to be dismissive about model theory, reducing an entire field of mathematics to “people are different and think different things”.
But I still wonder : Are there any axioms that can decide the statement about damsels in distress, just like how axioms can be added to ZFC that decide CH, like V=L and proper forcing axioms as I pointed out?
- Comment on Is the damsel in distress trope just independent? 5 days ago:
Yes but I still think it goes deeper than that. Is there any analogue of axioms that can be added to ZFC that decide CH, like V=L and proper forcing axioms as I pointed out?
- Comment on Is the damsel in distress trope just independent? 5 days ago:
I want to understand why some women seem to enjoy movies and video games that use the damsel in distress trope, despite knowing that in feminist theory it’s often considered harmful. I realized that Godel and Cohen proved a very similar result and wonder if their techniques can be applied here as well
Actually, now that I think of it, we can add axioms to ZFC that decide CH. For example, V=L implies it’s true, and proper forcing axioms imply that it’s false. Can we also add additional axioms to decide whether or not the damsel in distress trope is harmless fun, or sexist against women?
- Comment on Is the damsel in distress trope just independent? 5 days ago:
I think it goes deeper than that. There are people who disagree with the axiom of choice, finitists who disagree with the axiom of infinity, etc. But it’s a proven theorem (not independent) that ZFC proves the existence of uncountably infinite sets, non-measurable sets, etc. On the other hand, ZFC doesn’t prove nor disprove CH.
So it’s much deeper than merely “people are different and think different things”.
- Comment on Is the damsel in distress trope just independent? 5 days ago:
I mean in the same way that the continuum hypothesis is independent of ZFC. Godel constructed a model of ZFC where it’s true, and Cohen constructed a model where it’s false. We now have two models, both equally valid and satisfying all the axioms of ZFC, but in one, CH is true and in the other, CH is false, proving that CH is independent of ZFC.
Likewise, we can find one woman who enjoys the damsel in distress trope and think it’s harmless fun, and we can find another women who thinks it perpetuates sexist stereotypes against women. Just like in the case above, we have two women, whose views are equally valid, but coming to opposite conclusions. Therefore, we can conclude, just like Godel and Cohen did, that the statement about damsels in distress is independent of the axioms.
- Comment on How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky? 5 days ago:
I don’t remember anyone being explicitly against the fake pictures of the moon. Photoshop has been around for decades.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 5 days ago:
What can anyone do? The USA has the strongest military force in the world.
And they are being “sanctioned” by tourists avoiding going to the USA
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- Comment on What does ZFC do that Peano arithmetic can't do? 5 months ago:
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- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 6 months ago:
Thank you for the detailed response. The gameplay loop I have in mind is a puzzle game where the thing you’re trying to do is usually easy, but you’re limited in some way that makes it hard. An example I gave in another comment is : write a computer program that adds two numbers, but you’re not allowed to use the + symbol.
I really like your idea of “beneficial spell”. I think maybe the knight and enemies are autonomous, and the princess can only do a single action to make the knight succeed.
I remember playing a game like this. It’s based on Conway’s game of life. The goal is to flip a single cell to make all the cells die after a certain number of turns.
- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 6 months ago:
I have in mind a puzzle game. Not a room escape, but more of a code golf-style game. For example, those programming puzzles that say “write a computer program that adds numbers, but you’re not allowed to use the + sign anywhere in your code”.
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- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 6 months ago:
uhh. where did you get that idea from? I support trans rights.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 6 months ago:
Are you familiar with the subreddit /r/changemyview ? I don’t have a topic to discuss right now. But I am against the reddit admins banning a certain topic from being discussed because it’s controversial.
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