Hate is a high order emotion designed to create a solution to people who've used their higher order thinking to hijack your lower order brain. For example manipulators and cry-bullies.
Hate is a high order emotion designed to create a solution to people who've used their higher order thinking to hijack your lower order brain. For example manipulators and cry-bullies.
Bible editors were all like "let's have 4 Gospels because there's 4 cardinal directions." meanwhile reality has no fundamental cardinality.
The sad thing about a high trust community is that they can be suckered into about anything, because they've let their defenses atrophy. They put that defense energy into thriving, but it leaves them open to grifters, con artists and other parasites.
If bad luck were a thing you could invoke via some action, like breaking mirrors, etc. Than you'd be able to weaponize it for military purposes!
The con artistry arms race is between strategies to appear honest and trustworthy and strategies for identifying untrustworthy or dishonest behavior.
The problem with conspiracies is that they lack imagination. Maybe the CIA is behind it, but the CIA could be controlled by aliens! And those aliens might be controlled by the ghost people! And they might be controlled by the NASA!
Morals are heuristics, mental energy saving rules, but how does mental energy factor into our moral theories? How do we distribute and share the hard work of developing the best strategies?
Free energy and el Dorado are the same concept, legends that only exist because fantasizing about them makes you feel good.
The fundamental mistake conspiracy theorists make is they grant any motivation they like to the conspirators, very similar to theistic arguments about God's intentions.
If people would just introspect their own perception and consciousness, paying attention to all the failures, lapses and illusions that plague our daily life, there'd be way more naturalists.
Free will doesnt matter as much to culpability as the ability to know to learn and to act in accordance with that knowledge .
Maybe stupid people arent dumb, they're just saving energy by outsourcing the thinking to others, like they're part of a superorganism.
Ive noticed smart people tend to have a small recognition delta and dumb people have a large one.
Every act has eternal consequences, reaching out like the branches of a tree.
Modern ai i nothing but a redundancy reducer.
Steel-manning is just the exercise of interpreting and understanding someone's definitions in their argument as though they're right, then going from there.
The Pinocchio paradox just depends on how his nose grow power works
Oh totes! I get how it could be misleading, I just don't want us to think that no progress has been made, such that we dont appreciate outlr modern cozy life!
It was still pretty low even after birth though right? The life expectancy at 10 during the Roman Empire was still only 45-50
Attention is a zero sum game. :(
Even if idealism is true, It doesn't answer any interesting questions. For instance: what is the brain doing and how does it do it?
I think the reason some people think anime is demonic is because it makes us aware how understanding is prior and foundational to the sacred. This undermines our belief that the sacred is somehow universal or inherent, and that realizations can feel deeply unsettling.
Feeling is just the signaling mechanism from our world model. There woud be no feeling without a specific ability to receive and process the signal.
The "rabbit hole" is just when you buy into a theory that has increasingly implausible implications but you havent given up in it yet because theres some interesting or plausible stuff that got you into it in the first place
The phenomena of seeing is just specially labeled information. Its labeled that way so we can treat it more appropriately
Having watched her for a long time and having read her book lost in math I woild say that Dave is off the mark here. While I think that she does have some controversial opinions that alt-science people like, she has many other opinions that they dont like.
Ai is a redundancy reducer, which it feels so deeply uninteresting somehow.
Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland... My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.
Maybe one of the historical values of the church was connecting the rich with the poor on a social level.
To to the surprise of no one. Dog ownership can help fulfill a nurturing drive while being easier than raising kids. www.reddit.com/r/psychology...
Why does anyone think it implies something that all societies have had some sort of religion? It's clearly because of the well known risk assuagement bug our psychology has.
I looked at the test. It's pretty basic. Like, what's the year and season, remember 3 things for a very small amount of time reverse the word "word" like pretty basic stuff. I didn't think it's that implausible he passed.
A weird feature of abductive reasoning is that the LESS data you have, the MORE confident you can be in your conclusion.
As cynical as it is. Perhaps that's how they're planning to deal with the mass migration to the global north as climate makes these areas uninhabitable?
Christianity misleads people into thinking it's helping them be moral. Not by making them better, but by convincing them they COULD be a lot worse than they're actually capable of, and taking credit for the delta.
I wonder if a believer would find having that dream would be in itself interesting in some spiritual way.
I had a dream that I stumbled upon a church BBQ, and I looked up at a tree and the branches and shadows looked like the face of Jesus. I thought, huh, if I were religious that would make for a good conversion story.
Missed out on mormonism!
Pretty sure Cookie Run Kingdom is just a game my daughter made up to make me feel like an old out-of-touch grown-up
Even so, a gorilla moves 1000 meters a day at regular pace, the lactic acid build up from a sprint would make that thing burn out so fast. A 100 humans could exhaust that no problem in most non-enclosed environments, mountains included.
Yeah, fair enough. I'm just picturing people whooping, yelling, baiting and keeping their distance, eventually exhausting the thing. It may be able to run a handful down, but it's gonna eventually overheat and pass out or just straight up die from exhaustion.
Oh I see bludgeon means pelt to to death with a heavy object. In that case I just mean punch repeatedly.
Well, I mean once it's passed out from exhaustion they bludgen it's head with their fists.
I'm assuming the people would keep their distance, like hundreds of feet, probably pick up rocks and stuff to pelt it and confuse it as well. It may be able to get a few, but I guarantee it wouldn't be able to get all 100, no animal could full out sprint for that length of time.
Well it wouldn't be able to move from exhaustion. So eventually with enough people you'd be able to kill it. It's brain can get rattled just like a person if you punch it's head enough.
People forget our advantage over every animal is endurance and starting cool. In an open plane in the sun, we could easily avoid and exhaust the gorilla until it couldn't move and then just bludgen it's unconscious body to death.
Polysymy? In THIS economy?
Oh weird. That does seem to be the case. Is there a brain level below "brand awairness" but above basic geometry based on light and shadow cues? Because when I shift the cyan to yellow, my brain has zero trouble making the can purple.
Not sure. I just know if you hue-shift the accent color, in this case cyan, the can changes color to whatever the complimentary color is. The white areas on the can seem to have a lower frequency than the rest of the image, so my guess is that's what's inducing the complimentary color illusion.
Totally. But that comes from a more basic expectation. Not like an expectation of what coke usually looks like. One guy in the comments even claimed he could make it appear not red by covering up the coke logo, as though it's the brand expectation that makes it work.
With all advertising, remember they're spending money to get this message to you. You always have to ask yourself, what makes it worth it for them to spend that money?
This one: www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/c... It makes people think that their expectation of coke cans being red makes them appear red, I. e. If they had grown up with yellow coke cans, it would appear yellow, which isn't the case.
If you check the comments when these get reposted sections, you'll see that many do get mislead. I would argue that the inclusion of the arrows is misleading because they're redundant to the effect. Their existance raises the intuition that they're a suggestive tool, not a label.
Yeah, this and that coke one mislead many people in the comments, who think it's the magic power of suggestion doing the work.
If Krav Maga was invented for the Israeli Task Force, why didn't they just name it Jewjitsu?
Not sure if tariffs make sense, but I'm glad runaway production is getting attention! So many big American films being shot in Hungary, the UK and elsewhere. American crews are struggling! Many losing homes and careers.
some hypothesis 1. Lower safety/time investment standards = easier per kid. 2. More families around/Co parenting easier. 3. Younger parents =more energetic and helpful grandparents. 4. Larger families means more sibling help. 5. Less moving means close family. 6. More religious pressure.
Seems like the incentives to not have kids are in place, which makes me wonder why and how the incentives were ever otherwise? How could grandpa afford 8 kids? How was society structures such that it was possible, what was different?
Jesus was an alien and that's where the mothership was. :p
Pre internet people used to infer and intuit answers to things all the time, so it must feel pretty bad that their opinions and intuitions are subservient to information that's available to anyone. Young people don't know what what that world felt like, to feel right all the time.
youtu.be/fy3oJpuFzaI?...
One of the biggest issues with skepticism is see, is when to say "there's insufficient information to be confident" in inferences to the best explanation. After all, you can make ANY explanation seem like the most likely in a vacuum, by simply not presenting any contradictory evidence.
Wow, no mistaking it. He's literally referring to the letters, not the symbols that were interpreted. Wow.
Ghosts, phantoms and dreams haunt the edges of our awairness for those who pay attention.
Great point here. The con artist Kent Hovind was able to gain some success that way. By "talking at a 4th grade level"
Not if "below" means the direction your feet point!
Also he didn't account for people standing on their heads!
I know. I have two and it's tough. :(
They're talking about increasing the child tax credit to 5k as well.
@earlkmiller.bsky.social delivers the #SANS2025 presidential address: "Cognition emerges from neural dynamics"
I agree it like "let's start with tiny conciousness, then go through like 14 orders of magnitude where it doesn't do anything noticeable, then all of a sudden it explodes onto the scene again in brains, the one thing that looks complex enough to do it on its own.
Sara's scribbles had the same observation, lol
That is a cute contradiction, but I don't hear many saying it was a particularly "dangerous" bioweapon, just that it was intentionally being evolved for human transmission. There are always a few wackos who believe straight contradictions though!
This should disabuse anyone thinking they can understand market moves. Missed earnings by 30%
“They put poison in the food, it makes us sick.“ The reality here is so fucking boring that it doesn’t stick on anyone’s head. What “they” did was make food cheap and “ultra palatable” which is the fancy phrase for “very yummy.” Thats it. A huge part of the problem is that food is too good.
I feel like the world has amusement park pricing
*live
I did see gas prices go to about 2 bucks a couple weeks ago. I love in Georgia.
Conservatives who are hung up on definitional arguments against gay marriage, who have trouble linking it to a real biological phenomina are simply looking at the wrong thing. They're looking at "breeding" whereas they should be looking at "pair bonding."
People eat chips like they're nothing yet avoid bread like the plague. You're better off eating like 3 slices of bread over a bag of potato chips.
Part of religion is: Psychology Science Entertainment Music Social activity Tribalism Fellowship Morality Maybe it's decline is because there's better versions of those things out there. Maybe religion simply can't/won't compete.
I agree with that. It's a pretty shallow unoriginal idea.
What even would be that message? Wouldn't that imply the original "black mirror" poster is racist because it's associating blackness with techno-dystopia?
No thanks.
Imo that's a very cynical approach. I think that racist people can make neutral things. If anything AI is being overly-careful to avoid racist output as we've seen with gemini and open ai. I do agree the water drainage is a problem though.
How is it a strawman? She literally was saying it's racist if it both does or doesn't use your keywords in the output.
It's a typical linguistic trope to just reverse on of the words to make an ad-hoc opposite. The figuritive meaning is just that: something like black mirror with tech but not dark and cynical. 99% of people would simply notice that instantly.
You might as well call the original poster makers racists for putting a black person on the poster.
Anyone can see he's just making a "star trek" engagement bait. Imo you're just being hypersensitive to racism. "If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
It sounds like you're just saying everything is racist. Which is fine, but then who cares because that's not really what people care about when they use the word. People generally use words to distinguish between things.
So what would be not racist? If I input "black" and it gave me a white person?
*gave
It doesn't because he specified "white" Would you call an AI racist in its programing if you put black in its prompt and it have you a black person? AI does have biases, but this isn't an example of that. This is just keyword spillage.
I read it. My point is that it has a figurative meaning: the opposite of black mirror. Of course it has no literal meaning, but who cares? No one was claiming it did.
At any rate we understand as a culture that one person on a poster doesn't indicate the racial makeup of the show. It's an anthology show. So there's not even any specific reason to want to correct the poster unless you're watching out for racially hypersensitive people.
That's nonsense. While models do have some bias in them this isn't an example of that. This is an example of keyword spillage because he included the word "white." if he'd asked for a person holding a black mirror the probability of that person being black would be higher.
Would be a bad name, true. I don't think it's literally meant to be the name of the show. It'd be lame and derivitive, and perhaps even infringe on copyright. Its really just an invite to think of and post "star trek"
I think the more plausible explanation is that he was lazy and just typed "make this poster but for White Mirror" and just didn't care about fighting with the model to inject diversity. That's not racist to me. I strongly doubt he said "make the girl white" which WOULD be racist.
Why are Cynics so cocky? It is that they so rarely get push back that they have the illusion they're always right?
Oh I agree he knows. But it does make sense because his goal is engagement farming. He's hooking the commenters by making them feel smart that they thought of star trek.