Plesiohedron

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That isn’t a better opinion. It’s just power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
An argument goes : “it’s racist because…”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Then you concede the point and agree that your accusation is baseless.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That isn’t an argument.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That isn’t an argument.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
As long as you agree with the consensus more or less, and say nothing too novel, strange or controversial, you probably have nothing to worry about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Present an argument to support your accusation.
Being a moderator does not make your opinion better than anybody else's.
Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨45⁩ ⁨comments⁩
In old movies, it's only creepy rich people who have cameras in their house watching everything. Now everybody's creepy.
Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨15⁩ ⁨comments⁩
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
People in the community with special power and anonymity. No. That doesn’t work either.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain’t so great.

Neither is having classes of people who you aren’t allowed to offend.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Bullshit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Another thing.

One of the private universes went bad. So they locked the door. A deeply scary idea. A sealed cellular automaton based universe. Perfectly! Deterministic therefore ultimately incapable of escaping its history. Perfectly sealed. Therefore, incapable of salvation from the outside. And once the gate is lost, perfectly lost forever.

It’s similar to solipsistic Nation guy. Trapped in a personal universe where he’s enjoying climbing a skyscraper forever.

I think about that a bit. It’s got a deep scariness
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, an upside and also a downside. I can discuss both and everything in-between. I am a magical unicorn, relatively speaking.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well I figured that we are all pretty familiar with the upside of reading so describing that would be totally redundant. Whereas the downside is never discussed, so I focused on that.

But yes, how foolish of me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science, Engineering and Art all involve lots of concentration.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Despite the hugeness of its effects, I’m inclined to the “set of tools” model mself. I hold my focused attention upon a thing. I hold it there as I would hold my fngertip upon a spot on the wall. It’s as simple as that. It is a thing that I can do. A power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science, Engineering and Art all involve lots of concentration.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Whenever I let it all hang out here, I invariably end up offending 99% of the people. And that’s frustrating and dull.

I have yet to offend you, apparently. So allow me to let it hang out a bit more.

Magic is like science, much lighter on the models. In that observation is key.

Or like art, but lighter on the art-making. In that esoteric stuff is touched.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science, Engineering and Art all involve lots of concentration.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Habit? Inertia?
Science, Engineering and Art all involve lots of concentration.
Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨9⁩ ⁨comments⁩
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Here’s a story that explores similar ground. Divided by Infinity It’s in The Perseids and Other Stories By Robert Charles Wilson
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you. This is the kind of maturity and insight that I have come to expect on Lemmy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yes zing
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, reading is important and good. But here I am indicating a different aspect of it. Like many things in reality it has several aspects.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Nothing is an unalloyed good. That’s reality for you.

We can discuss the good of reading and also the bad of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe it was a mark of his alienness. A fundamental human pleasure tendered painful. He was on his hundredth universe after all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well it does tend to stick. So if you repeat the process within that sticking period then yes, it becomes the normal permanent mode. And memory of any alternative is lost.

But sure, not necessarily permanent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think it is a certain perspective. A perspective that includes the option of abstract thought.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Permutation City blew my mind too. Such great ideas.

Diaspora, and other Egan too, ya. But PC nost of all. I’ve read it like 6 times. It’s got that proper scifi vibe. The walls of reality crumble.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Whether you enter this state of “mental screen fixation” through personal preference or pressure from outside forces makes no difference, surely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In the analysis sure, words, thoughts and symbolic stuff are just little 2d cartoons. Obvious stuff. But in practice we treat them as God’s own titty, flowing with the milk of truth.

There is a willing suspension of disbelief going on there. Like, if I don’t pretend that your idea of the word “dog” is the same as mine, then the conversation just collapses. So I let my grasp on reality slide.