swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

General sneer against the SH: I choose to dismiss it entirely for the same reason that I dismiss solipsism or brain-in-a-vat-ism: it’s a non-starter. Either it’s false and we’ve gotta come up with better ideas for all this shit we’re in, or it’s true and nothing is real, so why bother with philosophical or metaphysical inquiry?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

I don’t have the time to deep dive this RN but information dynamics or infodynamics looks to be, let’s say, “alternative science” for the purposes of trying to up the credibility of the simulation hypothesis.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

Despite the lack of evidence, this idea is gaining traction in scientific circles as well as in the entertainment industry.

lol

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Oh I see. You are mentally a child and require people to spoon feed you information. Let me spell this out for you then. You are mentally a child and require people to spoon feed you information.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it's no one's job but one's own to educate oneself. In your case, you should look for a new educator.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Ok, so, some typical clueless VC mixed up atlas and sisyphus, which absolutely tracks. A VC thinks they are performing the all-important task of holding up the universe, when really they are just pushing a boulder up a hill and letting it fall down again.

VCs really think they are prometheus bringing fire to man, when really they are the eagle eating prometheus’s ever regrowing liver, where prometheus is the working class and the liver is collective wellbeing.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New superpredictor lore dropped on r/mapporn. If you believe in prediction markets and meet someone from Blaine MT or Essec NY, you have to do whatever they say because they are smarter and better at predicting than you.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, gotcha. I guess I'm sensitive to people using the word "misandry" from years spent in bad corners on the internet. I can't speak for others too much but it's an loaded term for me.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm sure ol' Petey Tooter has done the calculus to justify why it's worth pouring out a gallon of water every time someone wants to use a worse ctrl+f on his collected works.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
You are standing in an open field west of a
giant castle, with an ornate front door.
Your name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way.
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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

Was having trouble understanding this so I translated it through a couple LLMs, it just cost me a few cubic meters of water:

I am very smart. I’d like to point out one thing. Everyone other than me is stupid. Herpa derpa derpa derp.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh for sure. It’s probably why I feel so unmoored in today’s culture (jk)

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