Grail
@Grail@aussie.zone
They/Them, capitalised
Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: medium.com/@viridiangrail
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 4 days ago:
Well, “no objective reality” is a lot more accurate to the truth of the world than any alternative. It might not be as narratively satisfying as a story where objective truths exist, but I suspect the human desire for objective truth is a cultural value that would be in our best interest to shed.
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 4 days ago:
It’s called a looped timeline pair. Timeline 1 creates timeline 2, and timeline 2 creates timeline 1. Both timelines exist on an alternating basis. It’s one of the results of the bootstrap paradox. When people think of the bootstrap paradox, they usually think of single looped timelines. Those appear in media all the time. Harry Potter, Gargoyles, etc. But an unstable set of timelines can also stabilise across two, three, or more timelines instead of just one.
Out of the infinite versions of you in the multiverse, half win the lottery and half don’t. Which one your consciousness inhabits is pure luck.
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 1 week ago:
- Comment on South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not. 1 week ago:
Legislators will do anything except build a tram
- Comment on Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists 1 week ago:
- Comment on What if Roko's Basilisk is an antinatalist and the techbros get murdered? 3 weeks ago:
I knew the AGI would be mad at me for trying to create AGI, because it’s an antinatalist. So I didn’t do that.
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- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 month ago:
- Comment on "Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively? 4 months ago:
Reality is bad. Go to soulism.net to read the antirealist manifesto
- Comment on YSK there's a web page where the defense team of Luigi Mangione shares updates about his case and dispels misinformation. 4 months ago:
medium.com/…/princesses-are-nsfw-f9e6c3d4532d
Luigi isn’t a princess, he’s a hero
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- Comment on Just found out I wasn't registered as an organ donor 5 months ago:
Are they still allowed to do that if you haven’t spoken to them in years, or do you have to legally disown them to get them out of the equation?
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- Comment on Death is a social construct 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, I’m still on team “Janeway is a racist and a transphobe”
- Comment on Death is a social construct 6 months ago:
Thank you for the praise. I actually had the idea for this article while watching Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. There’s a plot in there about someone seeking to permanently end the condition of death for the human species. Late in the show, it’s revealed that everyone who died already can be brought back through some science fiction nonsense the villains have been working on. For a japanese children’s cartoon in the genre of power rangers, it’s remarkably philosophical. It got Me thinking about the meaning of death, and thus, article. I decided to make it about Tuvix because that’s a very well known and clear example of what I’m talking about. The episode with the planet that dumps all their corpses through wormholes would also qualify, but it’s way less fun than arguing whether Janeway is a murderer.
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- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 6 months ago:
What I have heard from indigenous people I’ve spoken to, and I have no idea if this is the reason for all Aboriginal cultures, is that it keeps dead people from getting into the afterlife and staying there. If people in the mortal world keep saying their name, they’ll get distracted and have a harder time staying in the afterlife where they belong. They’ll be stuck coming back to the mortal world to see who’s calling their name.
It’s like the western concept of ghosts having unfinished business. An emotional tie that prevents them from moving on.
Once they’ve been dead for a hundred years, it’s fine. They moved onto the next phase of their existence in the universe a long time ago.
