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14hr ago
It's hard to square the story of Jesus as God incarnate with any part of classical theology (unmoved mover, etc)
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2d ago
The red blue button experiment is about morality, IMO morality only truly exists for practical, non-abstract, circumstances and the fact that people argue for a difference what people say and what they would do reinforces this conviction.
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2d ago
I don't think the problem is recursive thinking here. Newcomb's problem is fairly simple to analyze recursively, I think the problem is just that people strongly dislike the idea that freewill doesn't exist, so much that they are recalcitrant to even accept it as a premise to a thought experiment. Unsurprising since if it weren't so there would be no discussion of freewill, since it obviously can not exist.
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6d ago
I think that the wokes did see gamergate as a victory for a long time: circled the wagons around journalistic malpractice and bent over a whole multibillion dollar industry to their aesthetic tastes.
However long term it's proving to be a costly victory, with western gaming development eating flop after flop, all of which get hang around the head of activists as woke failures: The Saints Row reboot, Forspoken, Concord, Star Wars Outlaws, Highguard, Dragon Age: Veilguard, etc.
The fallout from Gamergate is like the cultural version of South Africa, left victory with disastrous consequences that they would rather not talk about anymore and needs a constant stream of academic excusecrafting (it's the microtransactions, it's executive interference, it's online naysayers, it's competition from tiktok...)
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6d ago
- Revolutions tend to cluster around a charismatic leader, this leader then naturally becomes a dictator. This is true of non-communist revolutions as well, think Franco, Pinochet, Mussolini and Hitler, for example.
- Communism is a centralized system, there needs to be something that makes all the decisions that would be taken by the distributed system of price signals of capitalism. This something has a lot of power and naturally tends to become and stay a dictatorship.
As for repression, it's inevitable in a dictatorship. If you are unhappy with the work of the dictator the only way to express it is through rebellion and rebellions need to be dealt with with repression. That's just how it goes.
Typically the pattern that you see is that the first dictator is overall a high quality individual that does a decent job governing and sees the need for repression decline over his reign. But every subsequent successor is a lower quality individual that's only good at playing court games, does a worse job governing and needs to apply further repression. So my recommendation to dictators is to make sure it ends with them, but that's easier to do in a capitalistic system than in communism. Communism however still has the AI god emperor option, it just has never been tried.
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8d ago
I think it's just that dictatorships have a tendency to suppress dissent and communism for a series of reasons has a tendency to become a dictatorship.
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9d ago
I have to admit I find theodicies appealing to skeptical theism abhorrent, and personally I've never managed to get over the problem of evil.
God has already created a world of infinite joy in heaven, a little bit of finite suffering on this side is mathematically irrelevant. What you should be worrying about is not newborns dying (they got off easy), but hell.
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10d ago
I mean, how do you know God didn't ensoul Claude? At some point a long time ago all matter was inanimate and now there are lots of animals and also humans, so at some point God started putting souls into matter, he doesn't have to notify us that he started putting souls into different kinds of matter and the bible doesn't tell you which kinds qualify for it, definitely it's silent on attention heads.
I don't think adding more ill-defined words to the discussion is going to help you solve it.
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10d ago
As a layman, I just want to put it out there: Anti AI consciousness people, you haven't lost me, but I wish you were making better arguments. Every time I hear about qualia my eyes start to glaze over. Unfalsifiable philosophical constructs and arbitrary opinion on where they might "exist" are not the kind of reassurance I'm looking for when machines are getting this convincing.
I understand you so much. I've been blasted by so many stupid arguments from philosphers about consciousness that the moment I hear the word I feel myself get agitated, in the fight or flight sense, at the prospect of being blasted by a bunch of literal nonsense. The other day I was listening to the Alex O'Connor podcast about it and I had to turn it off after about 20 minutes because I couldn't take it anymore.
Perhaps we should only worry about what the consciousness question entails, and address those things directly. As far as I can tell the only entailment is if a thing has moral value or not. IMO they don't because the way their memory works is too different, and too janky, compared to the way human, or animal memory works.
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19d ago
Nobody was charged under similar circumstances
Do you have any examples of people in cricumstances similar to those of Fuentes?
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20d ago
Of those who were not charged how many have videos of themselves at the event telling other people, directly, to enter the building?
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1mo ago
It's a meta story: the story itself is framed as being a lost manuscript.
The characters in the later parts of Don Quixote have read the first part of Don Quixote.
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2mo ago
I'm somewhat sympathetic to the "billionaires bad" cause but the people making it always use really poor examples and lines of argumentation. Using Musk or Bezos (like many of the "billionaires bad" crowd do, including you) makes for really bad examples because those two, and other people like them, really did build impressive things that are useful to people, they are not what one would think a "parasitic capitalist tick" is.
The china worship also, especially from the Hasan Dogshocker Piker camp, is a bit baffling. I don't know if you consider yourself communist, but the dogshockers do and China isn't really communist for the man on the street. When they say they like China because of billionaires it makes me think that their preferred economic system isn't communism but fascism.
Another thing that bothers me is the focus on "net worth". That's also in your post. Net worth isn't the same thing as liquid money, they just happen to be measured with the same unit of measure. People sometimes say "just imagine how much good we could do if Musk didn't hoard all that money for himself" but that's not how anything works.
I think you would have a better time advancing your theory if you used better arguments.
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2mo ago
It's when men ascribe all kinds of motives to women
I didn't ascribe motives to anyone, btw.
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2mo ago
Because they're the target. This stuff is supposed to work on young women, if it didn't there would be no point in doing it.
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2mo ago
what explains infertile old hags urging
Because they are their children?
I really love reading you guys (and boy do I mean guys)
You can take your feminism to bluesky, thank you.
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2mo ago
Women spend a significant chunk of their life in infertility. Once their fertile days are over their best reproductive strategy is to limit reproductivity of the still fertile members of the population so that their children will be a larger percentage of the next generation.
Menopause is old enough that this trait is probably selected for, women probably have some innate instinct to see sex of younger women as bad once they are above a certain age. I think many of our norms around sex and marriage are downstream of this (marriage, vows of chastity, transgender fads, aversion to 'sexualized' portrayals of women, etc). The justifications for this stuff (consent, power imbalances, serving the church, etc) are just an irrelevant detail, you know something is bad inside your soul and then you search for an explanation to explain why you felt the wrongness to others. Morality is just what it feels like to be a member of a social species from the inside.
Our society is increasingly controlled by women and their infertile period has been lengthening as percentage of their total lifespan. Age gap is just one of the sticks that was nearby.
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2mo ago
Xbox has historically been a money-printer
When? The original Xbox was meant to realize Bill Gates dream of putting a computer in every livingroom, a general purpose computer for the livingroom, the games were supposed to be just the beachhead.
The original xbox did not sell well. The Xbox 360 did sell very well, especially in the US, but it was also marred by hardware problems, the servicing of which put the xbox division in the negative for years. I don't know if they ever came out of it, if they did it must have been between 2010 and the launch of the xbox one.
The xbox one was of course supposed to be the coronation of the old livingroom computer dream, its launch was all about watching TV and controlling all of your other entertainment devices. Nobody liked that and it didn't sell well, less than the original NES. And the opaquely named Seris X/S sold even less (of course the current generation of consoles is more of a competition over who can suck the most, so whatever).
Which is probably why since 2021 they've been talking about turning xbox into a platform. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the direction they will keep going in: divesting from hardware and become more of a publisher of sorts.Going with a woman on that role might not even be a bad thing, I think at this point the only people who can tell people to cut the woke bullshit are going to be women, developers aren't going to take it from a man. The worst that can happen is if things keep going like they've been going in the past 10 years and western devs keep putting out woke flops and the money keeps getting tight and gaming keeps moving east and to the PC.
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2mo ago
Recent loanwords typically don't get adapted ortographically. Even an older one like hacker is only rarely written in the RAE prescribed way (jáquer).
I wouldn't know where to begin. Jesus moves and changes yet he's the god that is not supposed to do either of those things, if he's omniscient and omnipotent he knows from the start that he'd die on the cross and set up the universe precisely so that it would happen and why would it have any meaning in that case and why would it be a sin that the powers that be and Judas went along with the plan just as he wished would happen.
Although it isn't even just Jesus, basically everything in the Bible, except maybe chapter one of Genesis, works best if you imagine God as a version of Zeus with more superpowers rather than the neoplatonic "thing" in classical theology.
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