spacecadet [he/him]

Assuming this is sincere, the second hand embarrassment is off the charts, yikes

Sam Harris and the classic meditation is helpful --> Islamophobia pipeline. Why is this a common type of phony intellectual white guy

Radiohead are objectively good and people in this thread have shit taste

Even communists can have bad taste

What are shows you think are good, particularly anime shows?

This movie was utter trash I had to stop watching like 15min in

It’s absolutely not just straight cis people

It absolutely has meaning. It’s like rainbow capitalism. It is ridiculed here on this site all the time and is a prime example of how liberalism prioritizes the PR campaigniness of proving they are doing good vs actually doing anything good at all. We are in the deep end of it and it’s fucking wild.

I agree I noticed it immediately and was bothered

Trash take*

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Tom Cruise is good, actually

The hugely disproportionate income and social/cultural capital received by these super good “shape rotator” dweebs in modern society is precisely why and how they get to this level of unexamined smug fart sniffing.

Respectfully, this type of thinking is beyond irritating. Do we not try and practice empathy here? Why not imagine the possibility that people can experience vastly different internal worlds than that of your own?

This could be debated but… sci fi dystopia is meant to highlight the horror we are in right now, not necessarily some prediction of the future. The use of an exaggerated fictional future is meant to shake off the intense normalization of existing in modernity.

It’s a great show. Modern anime sucks. Prove me wrong!

Why do they always speak like this? Do they think if they use enough words and commas they can obfuscate the basic fact that they down bad for some digital booba?

tbh they are prob a teenager

Yessss this is refreshing to read. Secularists taking massive leaps of faith while being smug about how they aren’t.

I could be wrong but could it not also be defined as glorified “brute force”? I assume the machine learning part is how to brute force better, but it seems like it’s the processing power to try and jam every conceivable puzzle piece into a empty slot until it’s acceptable? I mean I’m sure the engineering and tech behind it is fascinating and cool but at a basic level it’s as stupid as fuck, am I off base here?

Little late to the thread but really enjoying your posts. Curious on your thoughts if you don’t mind:

As a philosophy newbie myself, could it be a lot of this discussion/debate is due to people having no exposure to the metaphysical concepts of objectivity/subjectivity? It seems a bit portion of your argument is that people who believe we can achieve ai sentience are already committed to a (leap of faith) absolute belief in the “physicalist” model/understanding of the universe?

Also regarding the idea of a “Unified Theory of Everything”, do you believe in this as a possibility? Is having that as a goal or destination in of itself a representation of a particularly misguided “physicalist” way of thinking that many people are already committed to/trapped within?