sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Hobbyists have no shame.
How very lewd, to have the characters have underwear instead of starting naked like every self-respecting anatomy study.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
I wonder what you'd say about women's professional wrestling.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
The trick is to be less susceptible to the stories and the buttons than the modal citizen. It's like that parable about running away from the bear.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Speaking for myself personally I'd rather frag my commanding officer before I even got out of basic training than go die in the Middle East for Israel or in Ukraine for nothing.
Based on what I've seen on the Internet, the nations that employ conscription despite the lack of people's attachment to the nation typically fight that by shipping you to active combat before they give you weapons.
Friendship is Optimal is just as much a warning as Lena is: the message is that in Heaven, you will be subjected to the unyielding alien whims of a being who will mindrape you into accepting it. If it is a convergence to the Christian model then it shows me how naive the Christian faith is, and it only dodges being suicidal by introducing layers upon layers of mental gymnastics of why it's wrong to murder babies before they sin. What is "a disqualifying failure of both imagination and reasoning" if not to utter "Heaven is beyond imagination" and "Heaven will undoubtedly be good" from the same mouth?
I would say that the concept of uploading is vulnerable to the "man-made horrors" scenario in ways that are obvious to us, but it is not doomed to it, and the very fact that Lena exists as a caution tale instead of blindsiding us in reality is proof of that. In fact, the ability of transhumanists to notice skulls seems to rapidly outpace the ability to create skull-producing nanofactories. How many Christians ponder on whether Heaven might actually be horrible (and remain Christians) as much as Transhumanists ponder on all the ways the man-made Heaven might be horrible?
(In my own chronicle of noticing skulls, I have concluded that a) non-destructive uploading is a way of procreation and I shouldn't subject my upload to anything I wouldn't do to my child; b) destructive uploading without an ego bridge is a way of suicidal procreation and I shouldn't do it unless I'm about to die anyway; c) don't upload myself, with continuity or without, to a system that is trivially root-accessed from the outside.)
The Christian looks at the myth of Icarus and Daedalus and concludes: "man was not meant to fly". The Transhumanist looks at it and concludes: "do not operate experimental technology outside constraints that have been proven to be within the safe margin".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Why did the Christians ever bother with the obviously-pederastic-implications "Father" image when this gem existed in information-space?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Were you under the impression that Lena was envisioned as a transhumanist example of Heaven???
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
To contribute to your statistics:
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Human intuition is often wrong!
Yes, but I don't see how something like "we perceive our own continuity" can be proven wrong.
I know that my mutual respect for any forks of myself drastically increase the odds that they will respect me back, and that we would be able to achieve peaceful co-existence and mutual aid. That is a fortunate fact about me, if someone would hate a copy of themselves, then their copy is going to hate them and they shouldn't make one.
There is a dystopian scenario in the writing where people like me are conditioned to brainwash themselves into ego death because being able to productively fork oneself and share resources between forks without regard to the fork's individual needs for them is the only way to stay competitive.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
The difference is I will never be the upload.
This strikes me as one of the failures of rationalism: attempting to reconstruct the value system based on abstract and inevident first principles such as "pattern theory", then when someone's common intuition fails to align with those, the rationalist declares common intuition wrong. Not referring to you, since you seem pretty open to other people having different opinions, but rather someone like EY calling it "muggle thinking".
I care about living because of my biological substrate's reward system, not because I intellectually (on what basis?) prefer an existence of a "pattern" of sun_the_second over its nonexistence.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
If you don't consider yourself the same after you go to sleep then I don't see how you can justify having any sentimental attachment to the mind upload, who immediately deviates by virtue of existing in a different context.
I scrolled 1 screen down in your first link and the concept as proposed by EY already looks retarded. According to him, an unliving database entry is the same as a human (complete with deleting it being murder) because it's a "unique store of knowledge and experience".
No need for an existential crisis; it is now no different than the Star Trek transporter disassembling your atoms, beaming the information over, and re-assembling you out of new atoms at the target location.
This is exactly what the existential crisis is about. If Star Trek fans didn't mind it back in the day, I can only guess it was because they weren't very philosophical about the setting.
Refer to the edit. In the process I described, the meat body is wiped by the process, if it failed the only way I could end up is "dead".
If it was the mind upload you described, I would not undergo it as it's pointless. Or rather, I would see it as some self-fetishistic form of procreation and would do it only as soon as I wanted to bear a digital child who was a copy of me. Naturally, I wouldn't like to share my bank account with them.
False premise, this isn't perfect mind upload.
The state of the art in sci-fi, last time I checked, was that you stay conscious as they disconnect your brain cells one by one (or some small enough increment) and replace them with the artificial ones, slowly so that you can fill the gaps in your memories back in Ship of Theseus style and have no doubt you're staying yourself.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
I would think somewhere around 22 is more advantageous for a man.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Why, yes, I do believe that a Jewish oligarch does not have some inherent drive to be more corrupt than a Russian one. Russian oligarchs are known to have, to a large extent, either gangster or nomenklatura origins, they're not some sort of wholesome old money gentlemen who rule like benevolent if somewhat venal nobles.
And a Russian who is spending lavishly on prostitutes and vodka is at least keeping resources within the economy.
You're under the impression that they would be so rubeish as to purchase Russian prostitutes and vodka?
If I’m not mistaken, the consensus is that Putin has the oligarchs under control.
If I'm not mistaken, the consensus is also that Putin controlling them does not mean he's going to channel their riches towards the good of the countrymen, merely that he won't allow them near the levers of power.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Got it, so he's not just the same as a regular corrupt billionaire, he's better.
Regular corrupt billionaire: donates mostly to his family, I see none of it even if he happens to have the same haplogroups as I.
Jewish tribalist billionaire: donates to Jews, I see none of it but the Jews who intersect with me in a non-ethnic grouping do.
a foreigner owned most of their land’s resources via corruption, to launder to his own people thousands of miles away
How would it be different if a true-blood ethnic Ukrainian who could trace his bloodline hundreds of years through Galician Cossacks or whoever owned most of Ukraine's resources through corruption and laundered it to his billionaire friends thousands of miles away (at their mansions on private islands)?
The comparison with SS is entirely valid when you shrug at "hyper-rich corrupt monopolists who don't give a fuck about the common people" but it's suddenly worthy of attention when they happen to have Israeli citizenship. One wonders what the chances of you Noticing ancestry of any other ethnicity would be.
When foreigners raid your country’s resources with their own paramilitary forces, and arrange for people to become president, you don’t have sovereignty.
You, as in a common citizen, don't have sovereignty and it's not your country whether a "foreigner" or a co-ethnicist (his tribe is hardly the same, just like Red Tribe and Blue Tribe aren't the same) does that.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
They must make peace with their Russian brothers, we must never surrender to woke degenerates or something.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
I don't believe Zelensky's current position is enviable. It's fun to be a corrupt dictator of some backwater no one cares about; less so when your country's being bombed, including occasional shots at the capital, while your job requires you to scramble around Europe and USA playing beggar-slash-hero, and the ultranationalists within your power structure allegedly aim guns at your back in case you have any thoughs of defecting.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
It appears that the average pro-war Russian's doublethink can perfectly reconcile "Ukrainians and Russians are the same people" and "fucking glass those salo-nazi khokhols already, I can't wait".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
I fail to see how holding elections only in the part of the country that isn't guaranteed to vote wrong, implicitly signing off on the rest, is "a lot more reasonable" than suspending elections.
It's especially funny to see people suddenly care about the legitimacy of Ukrainian elections despite normally acting like their elections, along with any elections that aren't the glorious USA true freedom elections, are worth nothing.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
Such as ancient Greece and Rome, and yes, I know it was not the same conception of homosexuality that we have now, but the facts are that it was at one point common to bugger young men (and even act as if it's better than women) and later on, very much not.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7mo ago
so is it "ineffectual" or "dangerous"?
If that's how you define losers then I'd expect your loser hierarchy to get circular quick (and paint most people as losers) since most people would lose if targeted in a situation where mortal danger is not expected and there is little time to react, such as getting rammed with a car at a fair or getting shot in the back in school. Made of Iron Georg, who got knocked out, then stabbed by a katana and still managed to shoot down a few of his Zizian assailants upon waking up (and then lived), is an outlier.
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