TranscendentalEmpire
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- Comment on Is AI self-selecting through the stock market? 4 days ago:
people who actually want to spend $ hunt down that liquidity it will stay locked down on someones imaginary goldpile
Can’t do that… That would ruin everything. Just take out a loan against your imaginary goldpile.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
Something tells me you’re not nuanced in the use of sarcasm…
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
Great rebuttal…really proves you know what you’re trying to talk about!
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
No it is proof that it is true because a system that does not have the data to create an experience cannot create the experience.
You claimed that dreams were unconstrained by sensory input… A limitation caused by the lack of sensory input is a natural constraint.
am 100% saying the body is a computer with sensory attachments I have no idea where you go the things about peripheral and central nervous system from.
Cognitive science? The brain and peripheral nervous system develop and act together. You cannot have one without the other, and if you damage one you damage the other. There is no natural or logical delineation from sensory input organs and the brain. A lot of the processing, especially from reactive functions don’t even require the brain, and are handled by just the spinal cord.
The idea that the body is a computer with sensory attachments is outdated. Our metal and physical development is a reaction of us engaging with our environment on a physical level.
reality is something we aren’t capable of understanding because it exists outside of our set of sensory input unless we can use tools to collapse information to within our range of sensory input.
I would say that reality consisist of what we can engage with in either a physical or metaphysical way. If it’s simply something that we can’t either mentally or physically interact with, then it is definitionally unimportant.
Tibetan buddhists are suggesting which is the non dual reality of experiencing things through the lens of perception.
While I accept a dualistic version of reality, I propose that perception alone is not what determines reality. I think embodied cognition gives us a much more accurate depiction of reality we engage with.
For example, without a body what is a bicycle? Through just pure observation alone, it is nothing but a chunk of odly shaped metal and plastic. It is our physical interaction with the bicycle that gives it its true meaning.
Reality is not just what we observe, it is what we interact with on a physical level.
- Comment on Is AI self-selecting through the stock market? 5 days ago:
It might be in the sense that the algorithm recognizes that it’s a new bubble to dump money into for a quick return. But that’s just what the stock market is nowadays. Corporations have cornered the rest of the markets through conglomeration or monopolistic exploitation, and have cut cost as much as possible. There’s not really a lot of ways to keep line going up other than throwing it into a new bubble and hoping you can get out before it pops.
Investment companies are just running out of places to keep their investments, which is why basically all tech corporations are massively over valued.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
People blind at birth dream of perceiving hearing unconstrained by sensory input so yes it is true still even for people blind from birth. I have a friend who is this case actually.
Right, but your original claim was that it was unconstrained by sensory input. The fact that they lack the ability to dream up sensory information they have no previous sensory input for is proof this claim is not true.
My point is that you are making an unfounded delineation between sensory input and the brain. That the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system should be viewed as a whole system reliant on each other, rather than a computer with sensory attachments.
There is nothing narcissistic about it because it only proves that we are individuals with individual experience, something that everyone has been aware of for a long time, we still all operate on the substrate that is outside of our body with its brain and sensory organs.
People having “individual experience” does not preclude people having shared experiences, and shared experiences do not preclude individuality. Your claim is only supported by an underdeveloped preconceived notion of perception and it’s effects on cognition.
What you are arguing is similar to Solipsism, which basically boils down to “I can only prove to myself that I process consciousness, and everyone else’s experiences are just subjective observations”. Which means if all observations are subjective in nature, then a person can only really prove that they themselves posses “real” consciousness.
Now that might not have been your original point, but it is the natural conclusion of the argument. And others have thought it out and argued against it for a long time. It’s known as the The Problem With Other Minds.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
Dreaming is perception unconstrained by sensory input
That’s not really true… Dreaming is a cognitive function that is still limited by how we engage with our surroundings normally. Congeniality Blind people do not see in their dreams, and deaf people do not hear.
Reality is dreaming constrained by sensory input
Imo that is a bit of a narcissistic way to view reality. Reality is shared, and not defined by an individual person’s sensory input. There are natural laws that persist even if there is no way for a person to perceive them.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
What I’m saying is that for example, dreams are not real, and yet they can and often are indistinguishable from reality, many even have dreams where they are aware they are dreaming and can control them the same way we can control what we do while awake.
I think to adopt that argument you have to be operating on some preconceived assumptions.
Dreams are “real”, in the sense that they are propagated by measurable physical phenomena. Just because some people can experience an amount of choice in their dreams, does not mean they are interacting with “reality”.
This is only possible because we have bodily systems for producing experiences
Again… Experiences needs to be defined. There are a lot of theories about how we engage with the world around us in both a physical and metaphysical way.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 days ago:
Our brains do in fact create our experiences with no contact to the world outside our bodies, its our sensory organs that give data to the brain to create our perception of experiencing things.
Ehhh… The claim that there’s a clear delineation between the central and peripheral nervous system is generally just a byproduct of how we teach anatomy. The more we understand about cognitive science and anatomy in general, the further we get away from the old understanding of the cns when it was treated almost like a computer that runs a machine.
I think it kinda depends on how you define an experience, but you’re kinda edging into an old debate known as the mind body problem in cognitive science and philosophy.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone loves eating canned mixed veggies… But I admit, every once in a while I’ll make a fancy version of Mac and cheese and hotdogs.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Haha, I had a similar experience because of canned mix veggies. For a long time I didn’t think I liked beans because I always hated the texture of the canned lima beans. I also thought all veggies would taste the same because canned mix veggies all adopt an odd homogeneous taste.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Mac and cheese and hot dogs are probably less reliable than the canned mixed veggies. I don’t think anyone gets nostalgia for soaked mushie veggies .
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, but this is like one of the many litmus tests for people who think they grew up in the middle class and then actually find out they grew up poorer than they initially thought.
Another good one was having canned mixed vegetables more than a couple times a week.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
Easy… I have a wood working shop at home. I can just trace the sword and carve… Wait a sec.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
I do work with a lot of moldable foam. I’ve always kinda figured if I get kicked from the field or get bored I can always build costumes or custom leather kink gear.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
I will not be negged into fixing your plate mail.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
Sort of a similar situation with me and renfair people. I build and fit people with custom orthopedic braces and prosthetics and have access to a metal and leather lab.
I wouldn’t claim anyone is overly flirtatious, but they do seem to get friendlier and ask a lot of questions about things like hand setting rivets.
- Comment on And I'm not sorry. 2 weeks ago:
I know this jewel Ive been holding on to for decades could create generational wealth for my family… But I’m going to throw this bitch in the ocean because I am old and sad.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
it’s entirely possible that she just strolled into some dude’s house when he wasn’t expecting it. And if that’s the case, he was the one who was assaulted.
That’s an idiotic take considering he ordered a service where someone has to meet with you… Especially considering that all of these services tell you exactly when and where the person is. Meaning he initiated a contact.
point is simply that we can’t know what happened, because none of us were there. So to simply open by stating that she was assaulted is inherently biased.
We’re not in adjudicating a court case, we’re just interpreting someone’s accounts. If we are assuming that they are being honest, then what they described was a sexual assault.
Besides that, I wasn’t commenting we there the story was accurate . I was commenting on the misconception the person had that sexual assault was to be physical in nature.
Again… Why are we falling over ourselves to defend this guy?
But if he genuinely wasn’t expecting someone to let themselves into his house, (because honestly, why would anyone think that’s okay to do?) then he’s actually the victim here.
Again, pretty difficult to argue that case considering that he ordered a service where a person has to come to your house and have a face to face interaction. Do you often get undressed with your front door open?
Still a monumentally stupid move on the driver’s part, (because seriously, why would you ever enter someone’s home while making a delivery?)
Again we are blaming the victim here.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
When I delivered pizza, I would absolutely never enter a home. That’s like rule #1. Really good way to get robbed. Or see something you don’t want to.
I also delivered pizza and knew this rule… Partly because fellow drivers and my workplace told me about it. These drivers don’t have coworkers nor bosses that tell them what is and what isn’t safe. A lot of them are young and have never worked with the general public, or have previously been very sheltered.
And seeing a naked man in his home is not the same as being sexually assaulted. It’s gross and probably illegal if he set it all up for sexual gratification, but unless there’s more to this story, there was no assault.
Yes, it is… Like most people, you are confusing assault with battery. Sexual assault is any nonconsensual sexual contact(meeting/encounter). Sexual battery or aggravated sexual assault is sexual assault with the use or threat of force.
I’m not sure what she wanted door dash to do about it? If you report something like that they obviously won’t respond immediately, it would get flagged and sent to a legal team.
Some of the apps require you to get a code from the buyer to get paid for the delivery.
I don’t really know why we are blaming the victim here?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Idk… especially considering there’re other legitimate things to actually feel uncomfortable about with their relationship.
- Comment on wish 3 weeks ago:
Yeap, including cram schools most kids highschool and below are pulling 12-16 hour days. Over there grade school and highschool are where you put your work in and really over exert yourself, and then college and grad school are a cake walk and when you get to finally party your ass off.
- Comment on wish 4 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s pretty normal in South Korea. School and the expectations of success are just brutal over there. It’s not unusual to see groups of kids coming home from school/after school programs after dark.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What the hell are you talking about?
Brazil had the worst stats in basically every category when it came to slavery. They owned the most slaves, imported the most slaves, killed the most slaves, and their sugar plantations were widely known as the worst working conditions in America’s.
- Comment on wish 4 weeks ago:
Eh… My little cousins live in Korea and come from money, it still sounds kinda crappy. 8 hours of school then instrument practice, dance class, and after school academy… the little dudes get home at like 9-10pm every night. One of them calls all the time and begs us to host him when he’s ready for college, the little guy just wants to play football.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You just don’t get it because you’re not an alpha…Only betas are good at maintaining lasting employment.
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- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 month ago:
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Is really the big reason. Less and less portage is going through the traditional East Coast hubs of NY and NJ, mostly going to places like Louisiana , Texas, and Florida instead.
Historically Florida has always been pretty big on trains as well. In fact you used to be able to take a train from Florida to Cuba…kinda. You could take a train across the overseas rail line to Key West where they would ferry the whole train car over to Cuba.
We used to be an actual country that did stuff, and that’s because we weren’t afraid to do cool stuff with trains.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if it’s purely spurned by capitalism, though I’m sure it doesn’t help. I think it’s more of an issue with narcissistic egos, considering even our global leaders are prone to fantastical thinking when it comes down to longevity. Not too long ago Xi and Putin were caught on a hot mic talking about immortality via organ donation. That’s not how any of this works…
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
he’s using pseudoscience to attempt to live longer
Yeap, for some reason tech billionaires are all complete idiots outside of their field of expertise. I don’t know what it is about computer science that makes people so confident they’re always the smartest person in the room, but it does lead to some interesting scams.
These aren’t even real hyperbaric chambers, they’re marketed as “wellness chambers”. Real hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own/operate in a living space because they are dangerous if not operated and maintained by an expert.
He’s not getting 100% o2 and they aren’t getting the appropriate amount of atmospheric pressure utilized in hyperbaric medicine. There’s no evidence to support any kind of benefit of hyperbaric medicine at these levels.
- Comment on 2 OP 1 month ago:
Not really that surprising, a lot of natural materials have really good insulating qualities. Considering that it’s mostly cellulose and water, I wouldn’t really really think it would be flammable unless dried out.