saimen
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- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 5 days ago:
I mean it’s still the internet and we always knew it’s impossible to really delete something from the Internet. There could be someone somewhere who archives all of reddit with all the edits, just because they can.
- Comment on arborholing 6 days ago:
They most successful organism on earth is wheat
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 1 week ago:
This is also a common philosophical argument to not eat meat. How we mistreat and kill animals negatively affect the humans who do it.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
Know thyself.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
Going to eat as a first date is bad anyways. Should do something where you are a not forced to sit in front of each other for a fixed amount of time. Why not go for a walk in a park, take a coffee or other things that are more “open”.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
Interesting categories, but I don’t find myself in any of them: We don’t know if there is a god therefore I neither believe in its existence nor in its non-existence because it doesn’t matter anyway. If god(s) exist they either don’t affect human lives or they do it without letting us know how and why. In both cases there is no reasons to change anything in my life.
I think this view is called apathetic or pragmatic agnosticism.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know but there are probably explanations. One that I could imagine is that there really is only one consciousness or soul that splits itself up in as many parts as it wants to experience the universe and itself.
You could ask questions like that about the belief that there is no reincarnation or soul as well. Where does consciousness come from? What is it? How can electrochemical reactions be the equivalent of tasting a pizza?
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
Sounds rather arrogant to me to think there is a default position for something like that.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
I am rather saying it is nothing we can prove or disprove and both views ar equally legit. It just seems to us one view is more legit because of our cultural background.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
Same as with God? I don’t think so. Don’t you think there are things that cannot be proven or disproven? My point is the default position depends on the cultural background.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly my point. What’s the concrete data against reincarnation would someone from a buddhist culture ask (probably even when they aren’t religious). I am just saying what we accept as default and for what we demand evidence depends on the cultural background.
I might have formulated it exxagerated. But believing in “YOLO” is as evidence based as believing in reincarnation.
Similar as atheism is a belief as well: believing that there is no god. How do they know? It seems my point of view is more agnostic than most here.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
Why are you so sure about this? Believing there is no reincarnation is just a religious dogma of Christianity or rather all abrahamitic religions and therefore deeply engraved in our culture so we don’t even consider other possibilities. Similar to how in buddhist and hinduistic cultures reincarnation is the default way of imagining life before birth and after death.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
Every cost is labour cost in the end. It’s a bit off topic but was a interesting realisation for me. Every time you pay something you pay for another human’s labour in the end.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 5 weeks ago:
Counter thought: Having a job is not desirable. It’s the income we desire.
- Comment on The entire teenage population is different every five years. 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t ready to realize this
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
And then there was this guy who was part of the Nuremberg trials or interviewed a lot of Nazis and tried to figure out what they all have in common, guess what: lack of empathy
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
But not like that! Only the right rights! /s
- Comment on Oh god 1 month ago:
What I noticed is that I really only remember the bad things when I am in a bad mood and only in a good mood I am even able to remember the good stuff. So yeah it’s probably more helpful to bring yourself into a good mood right now then wear yourself down even more.
Yet, I do believe in depth psychology helping overcome childhood trauma. But it is not working in the way most people think by talking about it but by subconsciously reenacting it with the therapeut in a way we can solve it emotionally because the therapeut reacts in a better way than the primary caregiver did in the traumatic experience.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
The just started counting with zero (fist)
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:
Isn’t that the 3-body-problem? That already with 3 bodies affecting each other a system is chaotic.
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 month ago:
Yeah it should be “star-stuff” refering to this quote of Sagan:
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wait, I thought the pictures were AI generated.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
For me it is not even having a quest log. Some sidequests are just someone hinting something could or should be done.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
The soundtrack of red alert 2 is the only one I ever deliberately listened to outside of a game.
I second What Remains of Edith Finch, but funny? I couldn’t see that. One of the few games that made me cry and it gave a lasting impression. I played it shortly after the birth of my first son though. The bathtub scene and the ending hit really hard.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 2 months ago:
But by tipping the person you support the system that doesn’t pay them a living wage. It’s similar to why you shouldn’t give money to people begging.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 2 months ago:
I think so too, but I am really curious what will happen when we give them “bodies” with sensors so they can explore the world and make individual “experiences”. I would imagine they would act much more human after a while and might even develop some kind of sentience.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 2 months ago:
I once gave some kind of math problem (how to break down a certain amount of money into bills) and the llm wrote a python script for it, ran it and thus gave me the correct answer. Kind of clever really.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 2 months ago:
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 3 months ago:
It’s actually illegal to drive a car without the purpose of reaching a destination in Germany.