AnarchoEngineer

@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not sure if I'm the stupidest smart person I know, or the smartest stupid person.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember folks: being willing and able to admit when you are wrong is much more important and powerful than simply being right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but in those cases you don’t want them to stop, unless of course, you are getting distracted by them and would like to stop in which case: suffering. Context is more important than raw qualia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kakapos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do love that Aotearoa has incredible avian diversity.

  On one hand, we have Kea parrots who are smarter than most of the human tourists they like pranking and stealing from.

  And on the other side of the spectrum we have the kakapo: literally the dumbest bird in existence.

  Such amazing biodiversity lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come to the conclusion that suffering is really just anything that invades your focus without your desire for it to happen.

  Thinking about anything you would rather not think about is suffering. You get cut and your brain constantly reminds you of it because evolution is a bitch. Hatred, envy, anger, intrusive thoughts, headaches, itchy clothes, annoying noises in your environment, etc. Anything that steals your attention without your consent is suffering.

  So if you’re so focused on avoiding suffering you aren’t able to focus on doing what you want then yep, suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a mechanical engineering student with a math minor and I’m a switch so yeah, I’d take either side of this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High Fashion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could always make a gigantic super absorbent polymer bead and wear that to a similar affect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most businesses lose authenticity as they grow.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism forces businesses to enshittify as they grow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radiation is a literal Lovecraftian Monster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apart from “being summoned” yeah. No desire or consciousness just a thing that modifies everything around it by nature. It doesn’t care that it drives animals insane or turns them into monsters, because it’s probably not aware of what an animal is to begin with.

  Also kinda coincidental that Color Out of Space makes plants bigger. Before we had better gene editing methods, scientists used radiation to trigger mutations plants attempting to find some mutations that, among other things, made the fruit bigger lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people's earliest memories are at around 3 or 4 years of age, which correlates with the age kids start asking "why" for everything. Kids start asking why when they become self-aware.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My earliest memory (that I have a solid time estimate for) is from 2yo. It’s not a memory of questions though, I was a curious kid; it’s a memory of me and my older siblings coming up with stupid names for our soon to be born younger sibling.

  So, my guess is that it’s more about trying to come up with your own thoughts and ideas and answers than it is about asking questions specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The word for established assumptions is “axioms”

  Definitions are kind of the most fundamental axioms. Abstracting things helps us build with them and they’re true because you say they are.

  We use axioms in models to derive new theorems/information. But that is often what makes us resist changing them. If you build your other assumptions on an axiom, you have to rethink all those assumptions or even throw them out when it gets proven wrong.

  However, attachment to a belief, holding to an assumption even when it’s been proven wrong, is called “delusion” and yeah those beliefs tend to be the most destructive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think by cornerstone, they are referencing that beliefs are assumptions that form one’s model of the world.

  You think by logically building on assumptions. “I remember putting leftovers in the fridge last night, so I don’t need to make dinner tonight” You assume your memories are accurate (or accurate enough) and then build on other things you “know” to construct every thought.

  Sights, sounds, and vibes are a different story. They are called qualia and the raw experience of them cannot be described.

  Think of qualia like the raw data you collect from an experiment. Your worldview is the scientific model you’ve built to describe this data and it rests on both fundamental logic and the beliefs/theories you currently believe in.

  Unfortunately people don’t like having to change their worldview. And when you’ve held a belief for long enough, it becomes foundational to many of your other assumptions. Some people would rather say reality is wrong than change their beliefs.

  The word for a belief that cannot be changed via evidence is called a “delusion” in case you ever want to piss off a religious person who says “nothing can shake my faith” like it’s a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if a belief is a model/theory/assumption that a person will not change regardless of evidence against it, it is by definition a delusion.

  If a belief is an opinion, it is a personal statement. Statements like “Vim is the best IDE” are really conveying the information “I prefer Vim over all others IDEs” which is a true statement.

  If a belief is a hypothesis then the person holding it will accept if it ends up being wrong.

  Only in the first and second cases do people usually place importance on their beliefs, and typically, only the first case leads people to harm others or themselves with no way to convince them to stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: NASA’s Moon landing relied on Nazi scientists — and a secret U.S. program brought them here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, my grandfather worked on the Saturn V and, according to my father, got in an argument with Von Braun at least once

  I mean not fun because of working with Nazis, but fun because it’s interesting history

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do it. It's an easy one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I ate sigma pie and it was delicious!” Sounds like something that’d show up on my university’s YikYak, alluding to eating out a sorority chick from Sigma Pi lol

  Idk if that’s a legitimate sorority, but I know that regardless of the sorority mentioned someone would reply something like “wait till you try a pi phi 😜” and/or someone would say you’re going to get an STD from that particular sorority

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no

  Snack the keeps, booze the purge

  That’s what they meant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lloyd Braun, I just wanted serenity

  But you had to go testin’ me, gave me suicide tendencies