teleoplexy
2d ago
Thank you for the discussion! I think it heavily veers into sci-fi territory, but it's fun to think about.
In addition to /u/RenOS excellent comment:
Our identity is inextricably shaped by our actions and behaviours. Personality is shaped by the things you do. One of the pernicious aspects of this phenomenon is that introspection - the act of soul-searching - is a formative behaviour itself. Going through puberty is something natural that all of us do, but modern culture encourages deliberate exploration of gender identity: scrutinizing bodily discomfort, exploring potential gender expressions, and contemplating one's emotional responses to one's changing body. This thinking, stewing, brewing in the process of exploration shapes you as a person as much as biological puberty itself.
"You can be whatever you want! Are you a boy? Are you a girl? You get to decide!" - we encourage self-determination, the act of contemplation nowadays, as if it's a choice, as if the real identity somehow resides within you, you just need to discover it. Children marinate in this environment and then we act surprised when children come out as gender-havers. Of course! Modern society (and especially the internet culture) amplified their gender sensibilities deliberately and, IMO it's reasonable to assume, it created the sense of gender within them. To boot, there's already a preconceived notion that this gender that they themselves discovered within can be misaligned!
Some people go as far as reaching the conclusion of having a xenogender identification. Or it's also entirely possible to convince yourself that you are an animal through vigorous quadrobics. This is done through an act of pondering, through thorough investigation of yourself, through consciously trying to apply various genders to your identity - not vice versa. Why do we think that this gender feeling is innate? Why do we think that altering your identity like this is normal? Or even good? Or something inherent? Given the marked increase in gender identity discussions throughout the 21st century, we should at the very minimum entertain the possibility that gender-focused rumination is just a harmful meme.
If you ask me, a nobody on the internet, whether I want anyone to feel bad about permanent changes their body goes through - no! But instead of shaping your personality through questioning and extending this period using puberty blockers, why don't we also encourage, as /u/RenOS, said becoming heteronormative through puberty and then continue to lead normal lives after that? What makes puberty blockers inherently a better choice than a natural process that in most cases leads to a straightforward, normal life trajectory?
teleoplexy
2d ago
Consciousness isn't computation - it's fundamentally embedded into the biological processes. It also doesn't emerge from neural networks regardless of how well they mimic behaviours of real humans. Neural networks are statistical models, while you are your un-statistical emotions, you are your hormonal systems, microbiomes, other physical systems within your body. If you just extract the consciousness + the memories, just the raw contents of your brain and put them into the machine, you lose everything else, which is arguably the most important part. You get alien consciousness. Your consciousness is your consciousness BECAUSE of all of those icky yucky things attached to your brain, not DESPITE. If your replace them, why do you assume continuity?
All of this irreducible complexity can't be reimplemented by assuming that everything is an algorithm. Emotions aren't algorithmic abstract patterns, they are complex interactions between neurons and other biological systems and they are a fundamental part of the biological reality that makes you "you". Omitting them makes you a spider, an alien.
teleoplexy
2d ago
I'm a transhumanist. I'm not a transgenderist in any meaningful sense. I'm very happy being a man rather than a woman. I'd be even happier as a post-gender Matrioshka Brain.
Dont your body, your brain chemistry, your experiences and limitations make you "you"? Matrioshka Brain Self_Made_Human wouldn't be you. It would be something entirely different, akin to a Praying Mantis Self_Made_Human or a Spider Self_Made_Human. To me, it sounds like you are okay with killing yourself and replacing yourself with something that was created from you but is not fundamentally you.
I don't know if that makes sense, this statement just sounded utterly alien to me.
teleoplexy
6d ago
- I’ve seen multiple articles about some 50xx models melting power supply connectors under load. I’d research that a bit more before pulling the trigger.
- Depends on the games you play, 9800x3d would be such an overkill for me. I know I’m always tempted by the latest and greatest but I built a cheaper system 4 years ago and haven’t regretted it at all. Of course YMMV based on the games you play - you know your needs better than anyone
teleoplexy
20d ago
I guess you'd also have to execute a bunch of Russians as well, in this case. It's more of a mentality thing - there's little patriotism in any post-Soviet countries
teleoplexy
27d ago
Most people who self-identify as communists are firmly in the conflict theory camp. They don't just misunderstand how the world work, they do not just misunderstand capitalism, they also think:
- US government and more specifically CIA is behind every setback the labor movement experienced in 20th century.
- Astroturfing, infiltration, wrecking is everywhere and the movement has to be diligent to preserve the ideological purity
- Everyone who disagrees with them hasn't read Marx.
- Everyone who disagrees with Marx is an enemy, regardless of whether they are a capitalist or a proletarian.
You can't really convince someone who has built mental walls around their belief that the only salvation for our world is the revolution. This isn't a rational belief.
teleoplexy
27d ago
Putin's Russia does not have the ideological basis for expansion
Russian World. A quote from here:
"The collapse of the USSR was a tragedy" The President stated that as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state lost what "had been built up over a thousand years."
Idk, that sounds to me like ideological basis for expansion.
teleoplexy
27d ago
But he doesn’t. He just keeps pushing, and Trump and JD, who hold ALL of the leverage in this situation, respond predictably.
He isn't wrong to ask for concrete guarantees that weren't actually in the mineral deal. Pointing out that Russia already broke the agreements in connection with this conflict isn't pushing, it's just plain and simple statement of facts - there's no reason to assume that Putin won't break the deal again. Vance and Trump refuse to even acknowledge this point, while continuing to talk to Putin behind Zelensky's back.
I'm pro-Zelensky taking an L, sucking up to Trump and stopping the war at all cost, but this can't happen without the guarantee that in some way shape or form prevents another invasion in the future.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Do you love her or just do it for your daughter?
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Opened it right now and it's like clockwork
teleoplexy
1mo ago
The first time I've heard of it I thought "cool", then I opened it and everything on the front page was about cryptocurrency and nothing else. Then I closed it and never came back to it again.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Claude Sonnet also hypothesized electrolytes, FWIW. I guess real human advice of “ Just drinking vague electrolytes is not enough, you have to consciously track micronutrients and it seems like you lack potassium specifically” was more impactful.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
@Magusoflight, you asked me to shoot you an update if I figured out what's up with my sports/sleep issue I posted about a month ago if I have any progress.
I don't think I fully figured it out yet because I still have to restart my proper exercise routine, but I had a couple of promising weeks. The first lead I wanted to hone in on was potassium deficiency because it's the simplest thing to do and I realized I don't have a enough potassium in my diet (tracking micronutrients via Macrofactor). My main side was rice and sometimes I cooked some sort of pasta. I rarely cooked potatoes. I did three things:
- For half of my meals I replaced rice side with potatoes.
- Added drinking 2-3 glasses of orange juice per day.
- Replaced pineapple as my main dessert after dinner with 1 banana. Not everyday, maybe 3-4 times a week.
Early results for now:
- My sleep is deeper. Usually I need earplugs to make sure cats do not wake me up in the middle of the night and now I just don't need them. Most of the days I close my eyes and then open them in the morning.
- Much simpler for me to wake up. Seems like I don't even need coffee to feel like a human, I feel fine as soon as I open my eyes. Previously I needed like 1-2 hours to feel like a human being.
I'll keep you updated - planning to restart my workout routine this weekend and test whether increased potassium still holds up.
P.S. Thank you for everyone's suggestions on my last post!
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Ah, thank you for pointing this out. It's already paid for and thus unnecessarily cruel - this is the main point. IMO good faith interpretation, from the US government perspective the management of the drug supply chain isn't free, so they are just saving on that.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to:
- Ban immigration from and travelling to the countries with this problem
- Treat your own citizens if this issue arises
After a while these poor countries find new sponsors who will solve their problems. Or solve it by themselves.
teleoplexy
1mo ago
People dying of TB is bad. But it's net negative only for the countries with the TB problem. Why should US subsidize this?
teleoplexy
1mo ago
Hundreds of Beavers
I don't think you can realistically compare the two countries in question because it doesn't take in consideration outside factors. There are two variables:
- How often are people getting arrested for something they say online.
- How often do people say something online that they can get arrested for.
My argument is that in Russia, due to the chilling effects of propaganda, astroturfing, arrests, assassinations, difference in treatment in prisons, general depoliticization of society, people in Russia are less likely to say something that attracts the attention of the government, especially using their real name. This isn't the free speech as you conceive of it in more liberal societies. This likely accounts for #2 being lower per capita in Russia than in UK in general - people know that you shouldn't speak out in a way that can attract unwanted attention.
Additionally, specifically due to section 127 including harassment, I'd argue that you'd need to go through each case to determine whether the government was punishing someone for exercising their right to free speech. This likely accounts for #1 being lower than reported in the original tweet for UK. I don't have modern data, I'd expect with the riots this would be higher than in 2017.
So do raw numbers really matter? My answer is: "No, they don't. The two cultures, social norms and political situations are fundamentally different".
You are wrong. Those data points are out-of-context and do not reflect the realities of speaking out in Russia.
The report discussed by Newsweek – authored by Agora, a Russian human rights group – found that 411 criminal cases were brought against internet users in Russia in 2017. The article does not give a figure for arrests.
In 2017 The Times made a Freedom of Information request which found 3,395 arrests had been made by 29 UK police forces for “section 127” offences, which is used for cases of online abuse. According to the article, 1,696 people were subsequently charged. Section 127 offences cover harassment that takes place via an “electronic communications network”, and is not limited to social media posts – harassment via email or other forms of online communication can also fall under this definition.
This stat is half cherry-picked and half lied about. Comparing UK and Russia, two fundamentally different societies with different levels of censorship online is intellectually dishonest.
> Even our code is in German!
> Java Spring Boot
Must lead to some long class names...
Ex: AbstractAutomatischeKonfigurationsStrategieProxyFactoryBeanImplementierungDelegate
teleoplexy
2mo ago
It already functions in most workplaces, honestly. At least everywhere I worked at there was a clause about notifying management when you start dating another employee, with the underlying assumption that it would prevent uncomfortable situations regarding power dynamics. It's not that uncommon, you don't need to introduce new laws to do this.
teleoplexy
2mo ago
Do you by any chance have Gilbert's syndrome? My pet theory is that it could be related although there's literally zero evidence that it is
teleoplexy
2mo ago
For sure! I noticed I never got "the rush" many get after a cardio workout, I'm just more on the edge, not less
What is it based on?
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