Arctic_monkey

@Arctic_monkey@leminal.space

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a fan of insurance companies, but the dental/medical insurance split makes sense. Insurance is fundamentally a risk hedging game. It matters what the risks are. Most medical conditions will only happen to a small percentage of people, so we can all put money into a pool and pay out to the unlucky people who, for example, get cancer. Almost everyone needs some dental work eventually, everyone’s teeth wear down. Dental insurance is more like a savings plan than a gamble on rare outcomes. It doesn’t make sense to pool those risks together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, how is “not equal to” a Nazi symbol?