ageedizzle
@ageedizzle@piefed.ca
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 5 days ago:
Thanks for your comment this is interesting.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 6 days ago:
The idea of preconfiguration is super interesting. Thanks for your comment.
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 1 week ago:
This is a useful distinction
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 1 week ago:
I’ll check it out thanks
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 1 week ago:
This was an interesting thread, thanks
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- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Fair point
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
The way it comes into existence, which is prefiguring the existing system into anarchism, requires that the people already created horizontal power structures which forbid this “power vacuum”
That’s interesting. Can you pls elaborate on how this works?
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
It’s on the same sort of pedestal as communism really, in that lots of folks look at it on paper and think it sounds great, but reality’s a bitch.
I guess the difference is that anarchism doesn’t fail due to internal problems, it fails like you said by outside influences. Whereas most historical examples of communism failed due to internal influences (like corrupt leaders making bad economic decisions)
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
That’s interesting. I didn’t realize there was so much history behind this. Thanks for sharing
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
That’s interesting that they managed to have armies while doing that. How would that work? An army without top-down command seems unstable, it seems like they could easily seize control of the local communes if they wanted to
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Thanks for your input. This convo between you and @asofon@discuss.online is very interesting
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I wasnt trying to present it as feasible
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Thanks for the book suggestion.
The 8 people thing is a unique idea. What if you have a family of 9 people though lol? Also if it’s anarchy then who would enforce the rules of keeping the group to only 8 people?
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Yeah paper also beats rock, and computers are made out plastic and minerals, and minerals are kind of like rock. Therefore paper beats computer.
But then of course scissor beats paper so maybe the ideal democracy is a scissor democracy
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
This is a very interesting comment, thank you.
This principle of little communities getting together for bigger problems is what has been established in anarchist Ukraine and autonomous Chiapas, though in two different ways.
Thats really cool. Can you elaborate on this? I’ve never heard of anarchist Ukraine or the Chipas
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
I guess we could just choose not to scale? We could go back to the city state model they had in Europe during middle ages and in antiquity.
The only issue is how you would defend yourself militarily. Case in point: there is a reason why these city states eventually became part of the Roman Empire. A city state versus the Roman empire? It’s not a fair fight at all.
To prevent something like this you would need, like, a super NATO full of thousands of nation states, but corporation at that level maybe difficult (NATO is already proving difficult to maintain as is). You could also have a state for the purpose of only having the military, but that could easily slide into a military dictatorship. So it’s tricky.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Ah i see thank you
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Interesting comment, thanks.
The way db0 handled their defederation from feddit.org is a great example of how Anarchism fails even on small scale. They espouse ideals about democratic voting and rational discourse, but the moment the organizing body of the instance had opinions on how they think things “should” be, they used propaganda and political theater to get the result they wanted.
Was there some funky business with the vote or are you more referring to the fact that the mod conducting the vote had a clear preference for banning feddit.org?
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 week ago:
Whats the difference between archy and anarchy?
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- Comment on If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has? 1 week ago:
You’re asking a bunch of chronically online lemmy nerds what they think of masturbation. So if you’re looking for an impartial response then you’ve come to the wrong place.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 4 weeks ago:
I absolutely reject the idea that you should take something as true without true evidence just because it’s too difficult to get that evidence.
So do I.
This idea came from a couple case studies where a heart transplant recipient would seem to gain memories or personality traits from the donor. These cases sounded a lot like the typical “paranormal knowledge” story. Two particular cases were someone liking a food they didn’t like before but the donor did, and a child avoiding a toy that donor had with them when they died.
Being able to accurately describe the location of objects (in or outside the room) or describe specialized medical equipment, the appearance of the doctors in the room (even if the patient hadn’t met them before or after), and so on. This is all very strange stuff. To have hallucinated this stuff perfectly would be remarkable. Forget about being dead, some of these stories would be impressive even if the patient just had their eyes closed (or, in some cases, even if their eyes were wide open). In comparison, someone changing their toy or food preferences to more closely align with those of a particular stranger is, really, not that shocking. So I don’t think this is a fair comparison at all.
Again, we are running into the same issues we had before regarding your statistical noise hypothesis. We don’t know how many NDEs occur, or what percentage of them are reported to have components that require supernatural explanations. So to assert that it’s all just statistical noise is to assume, without any data, that these numbers are going to match what you’re looking for. Despite our data being constrained here, I actually think the absence of certain kinds of data counts strongly against the statistical noise hypothesis.
Because, if the statistical noise hypothesis were correct, it would be extremely common for patients to hallucinate what was going on in the hospital room inaccurately. But all the reports I get are of one of two categories:
- [1] reports of visiting another realm (these are the most common types of cases) or
- [2] reports of staying in the hospital and observing what is going on with surprising accuracy (these are the most interesting cases).
But I am not aware of even a single report of a third category of case,
- [3] reports of staying in the hospital and observing what is going wrong with total inaccuracy.
And I get that cases in the third category would be less likely to be reported on because those cases are less interesting. I see that concern. But we have to appreciate how, given your hypothesis, just how thoroughly these inaccurate accounts would dwarf all these seemingly supernatural ones. Cases in the third category would outnumber cases in the first category by the thousands at least (realistically, it would be more like the millions, due to the sheer level of detail in some cases in the first category, and just how unlikely it would be to hallucinate that detail accurately). If it really were the case that cases in the first category were so common then I would expect at minimum at least one or two of these inaccurate hallucinations to be reported in the medical literature. But I am not aware of a single case like this (is there really not one doctor that would write in their notes, “patient reported this and that occurred in the operating room, but he was wrong”?). So I have a challenge for you: can you identify even a single case that matches the description in (3)? After all, if you’re right, then these types of cases would be extremely plentiful so even if only 0.01% of these cases in the third category are reported on, it should still be fairly easy for you to identify at least one.
So, to sum it up, you’re making a number of assumptions here. The first assumption is that these NDE cases are banal enough that they could be ‘statistical noise’ (which, I think, is demonstrable false; these are not cases where someone changes their food preferences, they are cases where someone has detailed information that they should not have). Then you are assuming that there are an extraordinarily large number of NDE cases where people inaccurately report on what is going on in the hospital when they are going through an NDE (though this second assumption isn’t demonstrably false, it is at least extremely suspect since there doesn’t seem to be any cases like this reported in the medical literature, despite the extreme frequency of their occurrence). So your statistical noise hypothesis relies on these two assumptions, and both of them seem to collapse under scrutiny.
On top of that there are other things going on, too, such as preterminal lucidity, that also point to the possibility that we ‘survive’ our death. If you recall from my earlier comments, I was using NDE as an example from a particular book (Surviving Death by Leslie Kane). I chose NDEs because they are an example that is familiar to a lot of people. But it was only one chapter from the book, and it was one of the least interesting chapters. I’m not saying this because I think this book is the ultimate source of truth on this topic, I’m just saying that there is more than just NDEs to suggest that death is not the end. Unfortunately this stuff is so thoroughly stigmatized that people can’t even bring themselves to look at this data. But any honest person that did would realize, at the very least, that this stigma is unwarranted.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 4 weeks ago:
The strongest evidence is the fact that modern equipment can see the actual tracks the A11 astronauts left while hiking and driving on the moon.
The problem with this is that if you’re someone who thinks the moon landing is fake then you’re simply just going to dismiss this as yet another example of NASA propaganda. Because though those tracks are there, no one can actually see it for themselves (unless you happen to have a really high powered telescope, which is unlikely). The moon dust thing though, that’s something you can reason through and examine for yourself
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 4 weeks ago:
I think the most convincing evidence that we did go to the moon has to do with the dynamics of the moon dust in the original Apollo footage. If you look at the footage you’ll see the dust gets kicked up pretty high, higher than what you’d expect given Earth’s gravity, and it falls at a slower rate too.
So the question is: if they faked this footage then how did they get the dust to behave like this?
One possible explanation is that the footage was filmed underwater. The issue with this, though, is this is not at all how you’d expect dust to behave underwater. (you can go to the beach, kick up a bunch of sand underneath the water and see for yourself).
Another possibility is suspension cables. I guess you could explain the astronauts perceived lower gravity with suspension cables, but for pieces of dust? You can’t have suspension cables for individual pieces of dust.
So the simplest explanation is that this footage really was actually taken on a lower gravity environment, such as the moon.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 5 weeks ago:
You guys don’t learn geometry either?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
The same way you would on with else. You collect data, try to construct theories, test your hypothesis, etc.
Also, I was just using ‘supernatural’ as a shorthand here. If these phenomena are real then they would be part of nature and therefor natural
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
I think I’m the guy you’re referring to. I don’t think the scientific method is flawed.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
This was a lot of fun to read, thanks for sharing