SoulFire
a natural neural network
Politics is the continuation of drama by other means.
Programmer and mind upload enthusiast from Finland. Trying to become a better writer.
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SoulFire
a natural neural network
10mo ago
bottom-straights
Ahah, could you elaborate on the characteristic of this supposed demographic, so people outside of yourself could derive meaning from this term?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
10mo ago
The TV debates are what's really boring. His interesting discussion is in psychology. What I find most fascinating are his ideas of human perception, like such relating to the orienting reflex with error detection and novelty in the environment; how our value judgements shape our cognition not only in the decision making domain but in the very way that we perceive the world; and him likening such to modern AI where bottom-up approaches have triumphed over top-down manual programming of structure into ANNs because of the frame problem and such, where AI can't even see the toy environment without integrating an unexpectedly massive amount of information. I also find his ideas about the useful information narratives and archetypes to be interesting and gets me thinking about why humans find stories so entertaining in the first place.
As for going insane, that just sounds like more gossip by detractors. He did have his run-in with benzos, which seems more like an error with the medical establishment not properly advertising the risk of physical dependency that prescription use can induce. Then he tried to detox by putting himself into a coma in Russia which was also a pretty big error, and he seemed cognitively devastated for a little while, but his slump was nothing I'd say resembled insanity.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
10mo ago
The primordial desire to throw feces at one's enemies! Truly, the more we advance, the more humans stay the same. I can't help how much I giggle at the concept of literal shitflinging on an industrial scale.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
10mo ago
Jordan Peterson went downhill when he became weird lobster medicine man
Just when did JBP become this? This seems more like a caricature by ignorant detractors rather than an earnest condensation of what he espouses. JBP always used serotonin in lobsters to exemplify how despite 500 million years of divergent evolution, we still share a lot of psychological commonality in the function of serotonin in how we process defeat and dominance.
The only woo he pushes is that carnivore diet, but considering the historically unreliable and still indecisive state of nutrition science, I don't believe this and other theory about ketogenic diets have been proven to be ineffective.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
10mo ago
Considering the events which transpired, vanilla Stalinism appears to have been cannibalistic enough.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
10mo ago
If a leftwing group chat made jokes about the Holodomor, Mao or Pol Pot, this would make me very much disinclined to trust them with any power, as they have clearly not learned from the past.
I would instead be more inclined to trust them. Considering the typical handling with denial and apologia, leftoid humor at the expense of the genocidal tendencies of communist regimes would indicate that these atrocities at least occupy some mind share rather than ignorance and sweeping under the rug.
And, like, what would distinguish a straight man as a bottom?
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