Arctic_monkey

@Arctic_monkey@leminal.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lipps is back home in Tennessee

  she lost her home, her car and even her dog

  At least there’ll be a lot of very relatable music…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I wonder if the subtext of religion is; if you join one youre telling on yourself that you can easily be manipulated.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that makes more sense. I especially like the public toilet analogy. Afterlife beliefs really do bring the urinal home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I wonder if the subtext of religion is; if you join one youre telling on yourself that you can easily be manipulated.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand how this makes sense:

  If you stop existing after death whatever you decide to do now doesn’t matter any more.

  How does existing after death make the things you do matter? How does not existing make them not matter? I genuinely don’t understand what you mean.

  Not trying to trivialize your position, just make sense of it, but I think the hidden assumption is something like: you are an algorithm for trying to create good experiences for your brain/human; the things you do matter only if they, ultimately result in better experiences for you; if, eventually, you have no experiences, there is no point striving for anything?

  Is it something like that? That still doesn’t really make sense to me. Even if we accept the assumptions, why wouldn’t creating good experiences for your human temporarily, just until you die, matter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh nooooooo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reclusiveness selection argument makes sense, but why intelligence? Brains are crazy metabolically expensive, and I can’t see why a smart reclusive spider would survive humans any better than a merely reclusive one.