Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.
I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.
Anxiety / stress. Usually it relates to finances either directly or indirectly. I have enough savings to survive few years with zero income but having recently transitioned from employee to being self-employed, there’s quite a bit uncertainty about future. I’m not losing any significant amounts of money currently but I’m barely able to save anything either which makes me quite uncomfortable as someone who for the past 10 years has lived well below their means.
No they don’t, you only notice the ones that do. It’s called toupee fallacy.
is there anyway I could be more disruptive to the business model?
By not using the platform. You think you’re being clever but all you’re doing is making them more money.
Seems like the kind of post I’d expect your average showerthought-enjoyer to not mind seeing on their feed.
EDIT: I’m up for philosophical thoughts community though
For me it’s waiting for them to put their phone down, and when they do, I’ve already forgotten about it.
Notepads are underrated. It’s so much more intuitive than using an app.
In my view stupidity is about how one thinks, not what they know.
Agreed. Lets apply that to politics too while we’re at it.
Explanation is not excuse. It doesn’t matter wether they did a bad thing because they wanted to or their genes compelled them do. The outcome is still the same.
However, that doesn’t make it a bad idea. Accepting the fact that we live in a deterministic universe entirely dismantles the foundation from emotions like hate and replaces it with compassion. I don’t like every person I meet but I don’t hate anyone nor I blame anyone for what they are - they didn’t have a say in it.
I mean, there’s a good chance dogs can experience nostalgia. I’d say that it’s even likely. However, my point is that we can’t know for sure and I’d argue that we may not ever find out. Nostalgia is a subjective experience that appears in consciousness and just like consciousness itself, there zero evidence of it in the world outside of your own experience of it. How would you study something that can’t even be detected?
Nostalgia is entirely a subjective experience. Even if your dog would tell you that it does you’d still have to take their word for it.
If we have free will, then who or what is making those decisions and where is it located?
Humans do things for two reasons; either you have to or you want to. There’s no freedom in having to do something but you can’t choose the things you want either.
I genuinely believe that we live in a deterministic universe and that there is no “self” nor free will, so no, I don’t think there’s anything weird about that at all. Your view of the world is probably more accurate than the vast majority of population.
I consider myself unlikeable as well but all my real life interactions with other people indicate otherwise. At some point the pile of evidence to the contrary stacks so high that I need to consider wether I might be wrong. Not there yet though.
Subscribed and top 12 hours is what I’ve been going by for about a year now. After I’ve scrolled through that I switch to “all” from which I’ve blocked all the communities I’m not interested about.
If you don’t want to deal with life then you can just end it for yourself. No need to take the rest of the humanity with you.
One major issue with most online discussion about AI is that many people seem to view that term synonymous with LLMs - which it’s not. LLMs are AI systems but AI as a category is also so much more than that.
Somehow they seem to think that one small cigarette butt is so insignificant that it doesn’t matter despite the fact that they can see these small cigarette butts literally everywhere.