CompassRed
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- Comment on Liminal Space 1 day ago:
I don’t think we can say that about consciousness for sure, but I agree with your broader point that it doesn’t have self-awareness or a sense of horror at its predicament.
This could actually host a very interesting rudimentary form of consciousness that is theorized by some theories of consciousness, especially idealist models like panpsychism or analytic idealism (though I do admit that analytic idealism would phrase it in terms of having a mental state instead of being conscious).
- Comment on If I took antidepressants for my Weltschmerz (world-weariness)... would I become a worse artist? 2 weeks ago:
I am being real. Sometimes the side effects are bad. If they are, then don’t take the drug. This isn’t as complicated as you are making it. Like doctors might be paid off to push a drug, but if they’re prescribing generics, then that’s probably not the case. Just have to use common sense when listening to doctors . You can’t take everything they say at face value, but that doesn’t mean doctors are useless.
- Comment on If I took antidepressants for my Weltschmerz (world-weariness)... would I become a worse artist? 2 weeks ago:
I personally didn’t experience any, but I know others that have. I’m just trying to be responsible when advocating for people being open minded about mental health treatment. Would you rather that I lie and say there are no side effects?
I don’t trust doctors either, but they do know more about medicine and health than most people on earth, so they can still be a useful resource.
- Comment on If I took antidepressants for my Weltschmerz (world-weariness)... would I become a worse artist? 2 weeks ago:
It’s different for everyone. You shouldn’t be afraid to try pharmaceuticals, but also know they may not work and may have side effects. Personally, I found SSRI’s to work for my depression and I know other people that they didn’t help. Also, my prescription is $1 for a month supply, so not necessarily expensive either - it depends on the drug and where you live. You should talk to a doctor to be sure.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino probably got into movie making after misunderstanding what film footage meant. 2 months ago:
It’s been a meme for years. Maybe you just hadn’t run into it before.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
Yes it does make sense in context. Using the word robbers to mean “taking the lives of animals” does not make sense in context and is a stretch beyond the imagination. Also, I never asked, “what were they stealing from the animals,” and I don’t appreciate you quoting words I never said!
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
It can also mean to overcharge someone, which is likely how it is used here. The exorbitant price of sacrificial animals is multiply attested. The poor couldn’t afford it
I’m not sure how your interpretation is meant to work out. I don’t see how people would be compelled to give their belongings to someone if the threat is directed towards random sacrificial animals. Are you trying to say that they were stealing from the sacrificial animals themselves, and that’s why he called them robbers? It doesn’t make any sense to me.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
That’s not true. He denounced them for price gouging gentiles who came to the temple to make sacrifices. He didn’t call them murderers - he called them thieves.
- Comment on In this essay... 4 months ago:
Propositional logic as a system is both complete and consistent.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 months ago:
I think it’s just a trendline, not a line of best fit.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 5 months ago:
Technically speaking, no celestial body in our solar system orbits around a single point. The barycenter thing only works with two bodies. When there are more than two bodies, such as in our solar system, the orbits become chaotic. Granted, the influence between planets is small, so they all appear to orbit their barycenters with the sun, but there are small perturbations to the orbits caused by the locations and masses of all the other bodies in the solar system.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
It would be easy depending on your company’s git practices. Complicated git workflows can leave room for you to slip stuff in unnoticed or misattributed. I mean, it still has to pass a review, but a lot of the devs I work with don’t review that closely. Could just assign a lazy dev to the review and increase your odds of getting it through.
- Comment on number box o number box 5 months ago:
This joke makes me sqrt(-1)%
- Comment on number box o number box 5 months ago:
That’s exactly correct. It’s similar to how a vector in R^2 is just an arrow with a magnitude and a direction. When you represent that arrow in different bases, the arrow itself isn’t changing, just the list of numbers you use to represent them. Likewise, tensors do not change when you change bases, but their representations as n dimensional grids of numbers do change.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 7 months ago:
LLMs have already discovered new proofs for math problems that were previously unsolved. Granted, this hasn’t been done with a commercially available model as far a I know, but you are technically wrong to say they will never discover anything new.
- Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address 8 months ago:
It is. Either we need guns for protection and it is okay to point them at people in certain circumstances, or we don’t need guns for protection and they should be outlawed beyond certified uses like sport shooting, hunting, and collecting. I don’t understand your seeming belief that guns are okay to own, but not okay to use.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 10 months ago:
It’s not the same, and you kinda answered your own question with that quote. Consider what happens when an object defines both dunder bool and dunder len. It’s possible for dunder len to return 0 while dunder bool returns True, in which case the falsy-ness of the instance would not depend at all on the value of len