schipelblorp

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates tiktok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto for AI. Oh, sure, they played with AI, but always in an embodied holodeck character or an android, never as a disembodied computer program. Imagine a show where every major decision point on the bridge was “do what the computer says.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steal a little⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Download a book, you’re a thief. Download the world’s entire digital library, and you’ll watch Trump’s coronation from the front row.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona doctors vote to form state’s first physicians’ union⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are these fucking doctors to tell us how to treat patients?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you know what Adlai Stevenson said when someone told him he had the vote of every thinking American?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just saying your social experience doesn’t map onto the rest of society. If rich people are dumb, that means poor people can be smart, and that would mean that we do not live in a fair world. So for this to be a just world, rich people have to be smart and if they’re really they have to be geniuses. Keep an eye out for articles about rich people giving their opinion about shit they know nothing about; the undergirding assumption is that we should listen to what they have to say because they must be smart if they’re rich.

  This is how we got Elon Musk, who, as far as I can tell, is good at some aspects of business, but really masterful at pretending to be smart before extremely guillible audiences.

  I know you don’t watch new media, but Angela Collier has more than one video complaining about rich people who claim they could have been physicists. “What’s stopping you? You have the money. You can take time off and even run your own research lab and hire the best professors in the world to teach you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a halo of genius around rich people because they’re rich. Like the guy that invented the pet rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona doctors vote to form state’s first physicians’ union⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a statement to Arizona’s Family, Banner Health said its culture is one of its greatest strengths and that it would not allow a union organizing campaign, which it said is built on the concerns of a few, to define who the company is or how it cares for its people and patients.

  Yup. Sounds like they definitely need a union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I expected more from the DredPyr8Roberts. You’re going to have nothing but work, work, work all the time now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cannonballs are insanely OP. Mythbusters shot a small cannon once; it blew entirely through their backstop and went through a few houses before stopping. Your method will result in an overestimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, your reference is a youtube video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hi its me, the real dean⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s Moby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long will it be before everyday AI like chatgpt can easily do videocalls?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do it right, you can have your AI scammer burn a lot of tokens; and if you’re lucky enough to get two AI scam callers at the same time, you can connect them with each other and they’ll talk all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long will it be before everyday AI like chatgpt can easily do videocalls?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, if AI is going to rate my performance, I’d just as well as have an AI do my interview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure! Love to hear your thoughts.

  She’s like a third-wave atheist, recognizing that hating women and muslims isn’t a coherent philosophy to build a life around, that there’s more to the human project than being technically correct actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read in the intended “not” into “Pascal’s wager was intended to be taken seriously.” ? Because I think it was an idle thought experiment that got taken up by Christians.

  I have spent more time reading monster manuals than I ever have playing… it’s mythological crack.

  If you want more, the person that’s pushed forward my thinking most recently is Britt Hartley of No Nonsense Spirituality on YouTube. She cheekily refers to herself as “your atheist spiritual director”, but there’s a lot of wisdom there. I think you’ll appreciate her attempts to separate the baby from the bathwater, as you have with Catholicism here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pascal’s Wager was intended to be taken seriously, but it sort of took on a life of its own.

  Yes, and Gnosticism is definitely cool; just saying reading the source texts is a pretty miserable experience. Better to Monster Manualize it, boil it down to critters and cosmology without the lard of worship.

  And, yes, there were a lot of people attracted to world-as-torture-device, but it’s interesting that can invalidate a philosophy when the countervailing philosophy of God Loves Us attracts a greater amount of disordered thinking… This is an artifact of exactly what we’re talking about–the need for people to avoid acknowledging existentially destabilizing realities. Check out The Last Messiah for more on that.

  Back to Catholicism: it’s a religion. All religions have psychological and social value, lest they would not exist. There’s not any real point to rate and compare religions, because I believe they are simply the result of society and not its determiners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I’d get a lot out of reading the Gnostic texts directly, but it was mostly the same religious garbage I’ve outgrown. One thing that really kills the vibe for me is when people take religion, you know, religiously. Seriously unreadable trash, chapter after chapter about how GREAT God is, as if greatness automatically made something worthy of worship. Servile horseshit.

  I got a lot more out the prison planet subreddit, which is sort of gnosticism redux for people with obvious delusion and people like me, interested in the power of a radically different perspective.

  It’s really interesting that imagining the world as a place created as a prison to torture us IMMEDIATELY makes so much more sense than the tri-omni God of traditional Christiainity, but offering that as a possibility had to be heavily regulated at the edge of a sword… makes you realize how much of religious debate is based on a very narrow range of choices. Pascal’s Wager works in the popular imagination because the bedrock assumption is that there is only one God that exists and that we are choosing to believe in the right one. When you consider infinite gods and infinite risks of choosing the wrong one, the wager falls apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what concessions Catholicism has. It built itself into a major political player and was the spiritual foundation of the feudal system and king’s right to rule… and this for over a thousand years.

  The Catholic Church was aware there was stuff in the bible that wouldn’t go in its favor, which is why they killed anyone who tried to translate it into a popular language… At the same time, all these priests and bishops and cardinals and popes COULD read it, and they consistently chose to support their own power. Very human, that, craving power above all else.

  One defining weirdness of Christianity is the emphasis is puts on FAITH, on protestations of belief. I don’t think even Judaism cares that much about it.

  But the religious situation around Jesus’ time was absolutely WILD. I’d start with The Life of Brian, but then read about the Gnostic Gospels. There were cults springing up all over the place, each with their own vibe-coded stories that were ChatGPTd from prevailing culture. I think thinking of “Judaism” as an unitary religion/culture is a bit of anachronism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The term “broicism” is implicitly a critique. I don’t know much about the stoics, but I understand it has a bit more emotional complexity where as broicism is just machistic indifference repackaged. Here’s one article: trillmag.com/…/broicism-the-manospheres-obsession…

  I think all monotheisms are toxic; not sure how you think Christianity and Judaism are different, architecturally speaking. It just cracks me up that Jesus explicitly talks about all the ways religion is misused (Good Samaritan, Pharisees, etc.), he lays it out and black and white, and it just gets ignored. Not to mention how its used to support hierarchy when smashing hierarchy is absolutely in the text; but it’s complicated because the appropriation of Jesus was well underway when the bible was decided on. I think if Jesus was able to self-publish his memoirs, Christianity would never have gotten off the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For all the good it does you. The public will ruthlessly interpret your work however it wants; look at Broicism (neé Stoicism) or Christianity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophy aside, the comment on LessWrong that said “Nietzsche is a great source of aphorisms, and may be able to trigger some Deep Thoughts in readers, but a lot of his writing seems more like a sort of performance art to me. At least on a superficial level, he’s much easier to read than Kant or Hegel, but that also means he does not even try to argue his point in a rigorous way”.

  Meh. If rigor were the path to the truth, wouldn’t we have the found the One True Philosophy? At the end of the day, all that matters is if the philosophy vibes with you, which you can discover just as well from a comic book version of the philosophy as painstakingly deriving every point.

  I think thinking you’re using your rational mind to determine the capital-T Truth is delusional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct, but maladaptive and evolutionarily unfit…

  If you want to be entertained, you can watch True Detective Season 1. Someone brought up Rust, already.

  If you want to ruin your life in ten pages, the source is The Last Messiah by Zapffe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, read Simone Beauvoir along with Sartre. Sartre is kind of a comically a privileged white man. As you say people can be free to choose the path of their lives, but some more than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sort of paradox that a government that is actively looking to liquidate its excess population would put the kabosh on suicide, but I think it would. Cruelty and control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads nihilist philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Britt Hartley takes existentialists to the woodshed, pointing out that it’s a fine philosophy if you’re living a comfortable life, but if nothing means anything and your life sucks, might as well put a quarter in the suicide booth if existential philosophy is all you have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that might be ok. Busy discords are horrible places to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who has access to the db?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bummer, man, because what you’d want to do is send the user a DM with a more secure service, but then you’d be exposing your user account and linking it your lemmy id.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the security of direct messages on lemmy? Does anyone actually use matrix?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The app? The website? Explain.

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