ageedizzle

@ageedizzle@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit and Lemmy doesn’t have any thing that curates what you see based on your habits

  I’m pretty sure Reddit curates the content of r/popular based on your browser history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Loops too. It’s the fediverse version of TikTok. Would it also be illegal? 

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The way you’re discussing ‘models’ seems to assume two points: (1) that all useful models will be physical models, and (2) that we have models that work in this context. Neither of these assumptions are correct.

  For the first point, arguably the most popular model of consciousness we have at the moment is Integrated Information Theory (IIT). IIT is explicitly a panpsychist theory (all matter has some non-zero quantity of consciousness). This lends itself very well to non-physicalist interpretations (where consciousness is a fundamental constituent of the universe, irreducible to matter). 

  For the second point, all this discussion of models is largely besides the point. Because there is currently no model of conscious experience that works. No theory is widely accepted. And the theories that were once popular (global workspace theory and even IIT) seem to not the supported by evidence (proponents of these theories have tried to modify them to fit the data, but you can only do that so many times before things start to looks sketchy). So whether we use a model or not, it’s not really relevant to this discussion, because we currently have no scientific models of consciousness that work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s no reason to think it isn’t.

  That’s not the case. This is a very active area in academic philosophy and there are, objectively speaking, several reasons to think that consciousness is not solely a material process (whether or not you think these are good reasons is for you to decide). For an accessible introduction to this topic I recommend Facing up to the problem of consciousness by David Chalmers. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the Knowledge Argument is also a good intro if you are looking to dive right into something a bit more technical.  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay thanks for the heads up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It does sound interesting. Where do I start? 

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi there. Can you talk to the astronauts for us lol? 

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Objective: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have amateur radio guys on the fediverse? 

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. There are also second-order effects at play here. Buying these materials second-hand may normalize their use, or even contribute to fashion trends, which may make other people more likely to buy those materials first-hand. This would of course result in financial support for the leather and fur industries. That said though, these second order effects are very unpredictable and hard to measure, and their strength would vary a lot person to person, depending on how influential someone is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the supply and demand thing is key here. People in developing countries are exploited because there is a financial incentive to exploit them. That financial incentive comes from people buying their products directly, because that is how they generate revenue. But there is no way they can generate revenue if you only buy their products second-hand, so its not incentivizing them to maintain their sweatshops or whatever.

  The most damage buying second-hand can do is by generating revenue for these companies indirectly. For example if OP was in position where wearing these items contributes to fashion trends that cause others to buy the items directly. But unless OP is an Instagram influencer it something (which is doubtful, given that they’re on lemmy) then these indirect, second-order effects are very unpredictable and hard to measure.