ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
Blogger, Christian convert, general strange one. https://shapesinthefog.substack.com/
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ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
3d ago
Moral panics when they're about extremely rare events like satanic cannibals are one thing. We're talking about the ascendant ideology which is extremely entrenched and uses the organs of government to do things like force parents to give up their children if they don't subscribe radical political/philosophical views. Moral panics are designed to counter things like this, and I'm glad America in particular has a habit of doing so.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
3d ago
You don’t see the difference between random accidents and intentional mutilation of children for an incoherent ideology?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
3d ago
Ok fair, I have a history degree I should have known. I guess the recent past is harder for me to grok than the ancient past sometimes.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
3d ago
Fascinating seeing Scott's dark side. Thanks for the links.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
3d ago
Hah this seems like one of those "suffering from success" types of problems.
Also what is your flair referencing?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
4d ago
Is there anything actually wrong with Coke Zero? and other similar no calorie sweetened beverages?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
4d ago
The BBC convinced the British public that spaghetti grew on trees.
Wow this is real. Truly a modern marvel.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
4d ago
perhaps better even than most whites
What do you mean by this??
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
4d ago
Yeah I am basically blackpilled on any journalistic integrity in the current culture. We need to have a dramatic realignment of societal values before such a thing becomes possible again, imo.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
4d ago
I can’t shill it anymore they broke my heart.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
4d ago
And yes, I admit that writers can use AI to help them be more productive and effective. But that absolutely isn't what's happening here. These scammers/hoaxers are only after clicks/money and have literally 0 care for the accuracy or reality of their bullshit at all.
This is my concern. Even if there are people with integrity, the way the internet works now we will be overrun with so much slop it won't be possible to find high quality articles.
I'm hoping that in the most optimistic scenario, we end up with an internet that filters for quality much better, and where people put a much stronger focus on quality over quantity.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
5d ago
Well, thank you for the heads up! Yeah I suppose that is one concern, especially since I do want to be an online writer.
I will definitely think about this a bit more!
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
5d ago
Yeah the music is incredible. The music for the opening cinematic blew me away.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
5d ago
Ahhh but the story. The STORY!!!!
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
6d ago
Has anyone else here played Clair Obscure: Expedition 33? I'm finding it incredible so far.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
10d ago
I’ve long since come to the conclusion that modern psychology and psychiatry are not just dead ends, but actually more harmful than anything else we could have come up with. It actually seems to make whatever problems that existed beforehand and makes them worse.
Yeah as I wrote above, I think that it can work in some cases for some people, but on the whole as a society I agree it's pretty corrosive to norms and civility.
I work in retail. I’ve apparently signed up to be an emotional tampon and am expected to accept that not only does the customer have the perfect right to treat me like crap, im not even allowed to object because “they might be having a bad day” or trouble at home or work or the moon is in the wrong astrological house.
Yep I've worked McDonalds and other jobs. It's not great. I feel for you man. Luckily enough if you're on here you're probably smart and well connected enough to find something much better.
The worst is in personal development. Because modern psychology encourages a feelings first model, people tend to overthink those feelings and put more emphasis on how you feel. This tends to make those feelings last longer and become deeper as you turn a bad day into a bad week and on to full on depression.
I actually do think "working through your feelings" is a legitimate thing, with incredible results. The problem is the actual teaching of it needs to be done by an incredibly wise and spiritually developed person to work. The vast, vast, vast majority of therapists are shambling emotional wrecks themselves, just spilling out their own pain and problems onto their clients.
Hence why I think working with God, Christ, or another idealized figure is, even from a purely secular/materialist lens, far better than trying to rely on flawed human therapists.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
10d ago
Hah, referring to Disney?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
Provide me with a relevant C.S. Lewis quote please, old chap.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
Foiled again. ;P
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
Yeah a lot of Christians I know seem to think it’s the Apocalypse. I disagree but there is that vibe.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
LOL haven’t heard this one yet. Good stuff.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
Appeal to the tautological impossibility hmm. Can you give me an example? I don’t see the point of appealing to something like that if you think it’s impossible anyway.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
There has been a lot of hype news in robotics + AI lately, as the AI updates just continue to come at a blinding pace. From Tesla/XAI we have the Optimus robot, which I can't tell if this is a major breakthrough or just another marketing splash driven by Elon.
On the other side of the fence, you have Nvidia releasing an open foundational model for robotics and partnering with Disney of all companies to make a droid robot.
You also have Google's I/O, which I haven't had the energy to look into.
With the speed of AI updates and the wars of hype, it's always hard to tell who is actually advancing the frontier. But it does seem that in particular robotics are advancing quite rapidly compared to even a couple of years ago. Personally I think that while automating white collar work is useful and such, AI entering into robotics will be the real game changer. If we can begin to massively automate building things like housing, roads, and mass manufactured goods, all of the sudden we get into an explosive growth curve.
Of course, this is where AGI doomer fears do become more salient, so that's something to watch out for.
Either way, another day, another AI discourse. What do you think of this current crop of news?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, Υἱέ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐλέησόν με τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν
11d ago
Nice! I'm impressed seeing your Substack. You have really been grinding out the writing my man. I hope to join you soon :)
Yeah I agree, and I think this is a much broader problem than just with the FDA. In general government organizations are extremely risk averse due to how damaging litigation can be.
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