rockerface
@rockerface@lemmy.cafe
Cis white bisexual guy from Ukraine.
Formerly @rockerface@lemm.ee
- Comment on Frog On Porch not included 2 days ago:
“Oh, you’re a geologist? Name every rock”
“Challenge accepted”
“Wait no-”
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 days ago:
Ah, that is a take I can understand. I can’t say I completely agree, but thanks for clarifying!
Ultimately the difference between our arguments is just vibe-based, I think. I don’t feel like there’s a “ghost in the machine” outside of my brain, but, again, it’s just a personal subjective feeling.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 days ago:
That is true. But it also doesn’t prove that I’m not defined by my brain and memories. I didn’t chose to have most of my memories either.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 days ago:
Your argument - if I understood it correctly - was that I’m not my brain because I’m not in complete control of my brain. But then I’m not in complete control over what most people would agree is part of my identity.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 days ago:
That’s just Ship of Theseus and can’t be defined.
I’m not made of the same atoms and molecules as I was a decade ago. Some of them might be still around, but it’s mostly completely new particles. Am I still the same person I was a decade ago? If not, how come I can claim ownership of stuff some other guy with the same name bought back then?
I think I’ve read that on the quantum level you actually can’t make the exact same configuration of particles and energy levels in two places at the same time. Trying to create a copy of an object (or, in general, any configuration of particles) would inevitably cause the original to cease to exist. But it’s also mostly a thought experiment, as we can’t do that with more than a few quantum particles at a time.
So far, as best as humanity is able to tell, your memories are you. If we ever get to Star Trek style teleportation, maybe we can define that more rigourously.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 2 days ago:
If I was completely in control of my identity, I could stop being bisexual at will. Not a very compelling argument.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 3 days ago:
Repressed memories from trauma still leave subconscious changes in behaviour, though.
If I lost all my memories until the age of 12 and no trace of any habit or thought remained, then yes. Whoever I used to be died.
I am my brain and the memories it contains. I am the SD card.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 3 days ago:
Well, if I forget everything in the next life, that won’t be me any more. In a sense, I would be permanently gone regardless of whether it’s technically the same soul.
- Comment on 🎵 I can show u tha world...🎵 3 days ago:
This one is a hawk two
- Comment on Is there self help for narcissism? 5 days ago:
Those refer to different people? The first one is about people with NPD, the second is referring to specifically neurotypical abusers
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 5 days ago:
If you fragment your gender into small enough particles, it will become a gender fluid
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 5 days ago:
Mashle is very distinctly a Harry Potter parody, yep. All the way to the “chosen one” scar. Even the magic school headmaster looks 1 to 1 like anime Dumbledore.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 5 days ago:
He did change the appearance of his original body pretty drastically, though. Maybe horcruxes are just how JKR views transition.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 5 days ago:
What I realized at 29 years old is that adults don’t exist. Everyone just figures it out on the fly and pretends to be wiser. Sometimes to elevate ourselves above other people, sometimes to give them an opportunity to steady themselves in the uncertain world.
Realizing my parents, grandparents, school teachers and so on had always been just people hit pretty hard, somewhere in my twenties.
But this also means that everyone deserves to have a moment to stop pretending and just comfort themselves. It’s not a sin to be childish.
- Comment on xkcd #3183: Pole Vault Pole 1 week ago:
Any ring is a straw if you topology hard enough
- Comment on Neanderthals wouldn't be considered a person under U.S law 1 week ago:
That’s the criteria for distinguishing species and subspecies, though, isn’t it? If two specimen can produce non-sterile offspring, they’re the same species.
- Comment on Neanderthals wouldn't be considered a person under U.S law 1 week ago:
I was going to say, weren’t humans and Neanderthals interbreeding in some cases
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 2 weeks ago:
Not bonds within atoms, bonds between atoms. Or molecules. That depends on the exact material being cut.
And yeah, on a large scale it gets exploded, but on a scale of cutting paper with scissors it mostly gets lost as heat.
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 2 weeks ago:
But also, because some of the bonds between atoms/molecules were broken, some of the energy was lost. And energy is mass, so you can lose mass even if all the particles are still on either piece.
- Comment on I Hate Gnome Chomperski 2 weeks ago:
I thought he’s alright until his takes on russian invasion of Ukraine. At least now I know.
- Comment on Achievements 100% 2 weeks ago:
Listen, I’m getting all the upgrades I can get before progressing to the next area and there’s a 1% damage boost awarded for catching one of every fish
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 weeks ago:
That is true, but I’d rather have a Sanderson-style finisher than none at all
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 weeks ago:
He definitely can’t mimic the style. Just as he couldn’t mimic Robert Jordan.
But he could write the last 3 books of the Wheel of Time in his own style.
- Comment on You wish you WERE never born, actually. Subjunctive mood. 2 weeks ago:
One day Brandon Sanderson will have to take it upon himself to finish another one
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 3 weeks ago:
The problem is any AI detector can be used to train AI to fool it, if it’s publicly available
- Comment on Temperature sensitivity feels like it should distinct 3 weeks ago:
You’re physically touching molecules of air and water vapor that got heated up by the cup. And also physically touching infrared photons emitted by the cup. The sensation of hot and cold is technically the sensation of receiving or losing energy of your body particles jiggling around.
That said, the other commenters are also right in that “touch” is just a catch-all term for all the different types of receptors our skin has
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 4 weeks ago:
Cancer is at least made out of cells. Viruses are just proteins dipped in evil
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 4 weeks ago:
Viruses and prions: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 weeks ago:
Solar is very tiny flowy stuff through very tiny spinny stuff
- Comment on There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny. 4 weeks ago:
That’s on him for leaving the work computer unlocked. He was lucky the worst thing that happened is his emails got some butts in them. As opposed to being leaked and any private information in them used for nefarious purposes.