philosophy

Nice. I always knew there was a reason I hated it.

In the dream X was going to Y and I decided not to Z

X* = someone I agree with on basically everything except strategy

Y** = rearrange something into what I consider the wrong order

Z = redacted

*I'll never tell. Pretend it was Trotsky

**Not the world. More like my flat

It's literally like this:

Materialists/Physicalists: "The thoughts in your head come from your conditions and are ultimately the result of your organs and nervous system. Your consciousness is linked to your brain activity and other parts of your body interacting with the physical real world."

Dualists: "Ok but what if there were an imaginary zombie that has the same organs and molecular structure as a living person but somehow isn't alive on some metaphysical level. If this zombie is conceivable, that means it must be metaphysically true somehow."

Materialists: "That's circular and imaginary, isn't it?"

Other dualists: "Ok but what if I were in a swamp and lightning strikes a tree and magically creates a copy of me but it's not actually me because it doesn't have my soul."

Am I reading this stuff wrong or are these actually the best arguments for mind-body dualism

Kissinger is Voldemort actually

Don't be Evil

Remember the Person

Go Outside

Kissinger thinks we're dogs. Schopenhauer actually liked dogs.

Fucking cars are making noise outside

Media portray people wearing VR headsets without making :soypoint-1: faces challenge. Difficulty level: IMPOSSIBLE.

Some commentary if you're into that:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1328dmu/apocalyptic_ai_a_new_religion/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=SneerClub&utm_content=t1_jjdipa3

https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/13bw1qb/nsfw_ai_apocalypticism_as_a_secular_cult/

The consequences of the Turing Test being perceived as some grand epoch-changing threshold among bazinga brains are exhausting, and continue to spread.

"AS SOON AS A CHATBOT NOVEL IS PASSED FOR BIG COMPANY PUBLISHING, THE WRITING SINGULARITY BEGINS" :soypoint-1: -actual fucking opinion of an actual fucking bazinga brain

Oh you're alive bro? That's pretty cringe. I bet you're full of organs and other gross shit

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Bleeding edge take but he might be a crypto-Maoist and know exactly wtf he's doing. This is unprovable and that is how it should be.

Deliberating until a drowning person drowns :geordi-no:

Deliberating until a drowning person drowns and giving 20 bucks to some charity as a performative gesture :geordi-no:

Ignoring the drowning person and being effectively altruistic and peddling cryptocurrency and worshipping billionaires in the hopes that their superior genes eventually produce trillions of post-Singularity(tm)(r) demigods :geordi-yes:

Yeah, I know. Breaking news. r/SneerClub informs me that this was par for the course back then and Schopenhauer was better than some. But still holy fuck. This is 1st preface to World. Dude wrote it when he was only 30 years old

I tried it recently. It worked. Problem, contrarian in the back row? :troll:

Also, I don't just mean they are reactionary in certain area or in their personal life (Like Aristotle was important for biology despite being an apologies for slavery)?

I mean worth looking into their thinking precisely in areas where they're reactionary.

Possible suggestions (not saying they're justified) that I expect people would put forward include:

• Carl Scmitt
• Heidegger

That's all. I said my part. It's amazing how saying "I am smart" in more words and "that's easy" can provide enough smoke and mirrors to keep billionaires paying them for doing and solving nothing.

CS nerds who think they can replace all of philosophy with 6 hours on a supercomputing cluster get the wall

idfk looks cool or smthjng

why don't we have a climate change comm

Longtermism is a rather silly branch of "effective altruism", where philosophers try to work out what we should do to maximize the happiness of humans in the very long term. While it's an interesting idea to talk about, for whatever reason it tend to attract a bunch of people who seemingly want to use it to justify their place in a hierarchy today. For example, they will make a lot of money off exploiting people, and justify it in that they are donating some small part back to "long term" problems. Dismantling the system itself which exploits people, of course, isn't part of it. Even weirder, it attracts kind of AI conspiracy theorists who watched too many Terminator movies and think we have to stop super intelligent AI from doing...something bad.

If you really want to help the long term future of humanity, you should probably just become a communist like a normal person.

:marx-hi:

I HATE POP STOICISM

I HATE POP STOICISM

Plato (l. 428/427 - 348/347 BCE) is the pre-eminent Greek philosopher, known for his Dialogues and for founding his Academy in Athens, traditionally considered the first university in the western world. Plato was a student of Socrates and featured his former teacher in almost all of his dialogues which form the basis of Western Philosophy.

Born Aristocles, son of Ariston of the deme Colytus, Plato had two older brothers (Adeimantus and Glaucon), who both feature famously in Plato's dialogue Republic, and a sister Potone. He is known by the nickname 'Plato' which, according to Diogenes Laertius (l. c. 180 - c. 240 CE), was given him by his wrestling coach because of his broad shoulders (in Greek 'Platon' means broad). His family was aristocratic and well-connected politically and it seems Plato was expected to pursue a career in politics. His interests, however, tended more toward the arts and, in his youth, he wrote plays and, perhaps, poetry.

After abandoning his literary pursuits and devoting himself to Socrates, even throughout his trial and execution, Plato wrote the foundational philosophic works of the ancient world which would go on to influence world culture. The three great monotheistic religions of the world owe much to Platonic thought whether directly or through the works of his student and friend Aristotle (l. 384-322 BCE), whose teachings remained consistent with Plato's vision of the importance of caring for one's soul and maintaining a virtuous lifestyle even though Aristotle would depart from some of the specifics of Plato's philosophy.

Plato - World history encyclopedia :biggus-dickus:

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