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@ Grail @aussie.zone

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  • Scifi question about time travel:

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  • Well, "no objective reality" is a lot more accurate to the truth of the world than any alternative. It might not be as narratively satisfying as a story where objective truths exist, but I suspect the human desire for objective truth is a cultural value that would be in our best interest to shed.

  • Scifi question about time travel:

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  • It's called a looped timeline pair. Timeline 1 creates timeline 2, and timeline 2 creates timeline 1. Both timelines exist on an alternating basis. It's one of the results of the bootstrap paradox. When people think of the bootstrap paradox, they usually think of single looped timelines. Those appear in media all the time. Harry Potter, Gargoyles, etc. But an unstable set of timelines can also stabilise across two, three, or more timelines instead of just one.

    Out of the infinite versions of you in the multiverse, half win the lottery and half don't. Which one your consciousness inhabits is pure luck.

  • What if Roko's Basilisk is an antinatalist and the techbros get murdered?

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  • I knew the AGI would be mad at me for trying to create AGI, because it's an antinatalist. So I didn't do that.

  • what's up fellow early birds

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  • "Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively?

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  • YSK there's a web page where the defense team of Luigi Mangione shares updates about his case and dispels misinformation.

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  • "This is deaname, ignore her beard, her deep voice, her new masc new name and her manly personality, it has been a phase for only 10 years"

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  • Zuck rule

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  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Zuck rule

  • Death is a social construct

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  • I believe that we can know things. I just don't believe we can know things objectively. We need a better standard for knowledge than objectivity, because objectivity is worthless.

  • Death is a social construct

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  • To claim something doesn’t exist, based on the inductive principle, is to wave away the entire universe with a flick of the wrist as your opening argument.

    I would encourage you to read My antirealist manifesto, which argues that reality is a harmful social construct. I'd also like to pre-empt any accusation that antirealism is anti-science, by pointing out My articles advocating for an antirealist future to the application of the scientific method. I in fact believe that any kind of claim to the existence of absolute or objective knowledge is anti-science, and frankly comes uncomfortably close to the inappropriate application of mysticism. You are right when you say that focusing on the tiny chance that we are wrong isn't pragmatic. Which is why so much of My writing focuses on pragmatism as a better epistemological method than empiricism and rationalism applied for the sake of truth over utility. When I say death is a social construct, I am not saying it's a useless idea, simply because it's untrue. I value usefulness over truth, and death is certainly much more useful than it is true.

  • Death is a social construct

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  • Don't worry, I'm still on team "Janeway is a racist and a transphobe"

  • Death is a social construct

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  • Thank you for the praise. I actually had the idea for this article while watching Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. There's a plot in there about someone seeking to permanently end the condition of death for the human species. Late in the show, it's revealed that everyone who died already can be brought back through some science fiction nonsense the villains have been working on. For a japanese children's cartoon in the genre of power rangers, it's remarkably philosophical. It got Me thinking about the meaning of death, and thus, article. I decided to make it about Tuvix because that's a very well known and clear example of what I'm talking about. The episode with the planet that dumps all their corpses through wormholes would also qualify, but it's way less fun than arguing whether Janeway is a murderer.

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Death is a social construct

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/death-is-a-social-construct-1924e6721d5a
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    Neopronouns rule

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  • Well I wouldn't call the article itself a work of science, but it explains the science behind this meme, and I was sure nobody would understand the meme if I didn't include it.

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    Neopronouns rule

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  • peak philosophical discourse rule

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  • Another technology that uses the subjectivity of reality is film. If we always perceived the objective truth, we couldn't watch Star Wars and see a Jedi. Instead, we'd just see coloured lights on a screen. Our minds are able to construct a subjective reality using a very small amount of stimuli, and create the subjective experience of another whole universe. (Or galaxy far far away, at least).

  • peak philosophical discourse rule

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  • Here, have some better philosophical discourse:

    The belief that reality is objective holds us back from discovering technologies that exploit the subjectivity of reality. Therefore the practical choice with regards to solipsism/realism is anti-realism

  • How do you feel about your content getting scraped by AI models?

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  • Training rule

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  • You own your brain in the same sense that you own modern devices, you own it but also can't really modify it and there is some closed source shit that really control it

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  • The nested structure of gender identity

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  • Can you recommend any blogging sites that allow for spoilering content?

  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
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    The nested structure of gender identity

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/the-nested-structure-of-gender-identity-75681e3cfa34
  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
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    How Twitter can ruin a life

    www.vox.com /the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Young people these days only use the word "slut" in dirty talk, such that calling someone a slut in polite company is now unacceptable. The sluts stole the word for themselves. Great job, sluts!

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    Introduction to capitalised pronouns

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48
  • Beehaw Support @beehaw.org
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    Nonexistent moderation on Beehaw /c/neurodivergence

  • Neurodivergence @beehaw.org
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    Is Donald Trump a Narcissist?

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/is-donald-trump-a-narcissist-7dfebcaefbaf
  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
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    Why I don't identify as a lesbian anymore

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/why-i-dont-identify-as-a-lesbian-anymore-26d673561e62
  • Transfem @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Introduction to capitalised pronouns

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48
  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Boimler is the One Punch Man of Star Trek

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/boimler-is-the-one-punch-man-of-star-trek-and-i-love-pataphysics-81831abdb820
  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org
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    Narcissus wasn’t an abuser, he was queer

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/narcissus-wasnt-an-abuser-he-was-queer-15a74e456838
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Why we can’t just protect "smart" people from data tracking

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/why-we-cant-just-protect-smart-people-from-data-tracking-c05d308e799f
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit)

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/discords-secret-weapon-against-open-source-competitors-it-s-pluralkit-ede49886e0bd
  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    Excrucian Strategist

  • Neurodivergence @beehaw.org
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    Maui has narcissistic personality disorder

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/moana-is-great-npd-rep-9b21627d183c
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Why iron sights in video games suck

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/why-iron-sights-in-video-games-suck-d411f0688c3d
  • Neurodivergence @beehaw.org
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    Anarcho-Narcissism - NPD into praxis

    medium.com /@viridiangrail/anarcho-narcissism-b647c8062173