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I do think Skeletor's parents are at least a little to blame for naming him that
What if that's just a mean nickname and we're all just accomplices in bullying him? :(
I tested this by calling 100 randomly sampled people on the subway Skeletor and 73.3% of them were flattered, so it's probably not technically mean so much as specialized.
How'd you get the decimal?
fast fourier transform
I do think Skeletor's parents are at least a little to blame for naming him that
What if that's just a mean nickname and we're all just accomplices in bullying him? :(
I tested this by calling 100 randomly sampled people on the subway Skeletor and 73.3% of them were flattered, so it's probably not technically mean so much as specialized.
On Reality
Suppose that we decide on a taxonomy that separates the mind and body. Over here, the mind. Over there, the body.
This creates the subjectivity hole of "but we only ever experience the mind, so what is the body? What is the reality the body lives in? How can we say anything about these things?"
Suppose we build a bridge between these things by saying "oh, here's the trick: mental models become arbitrarily close to reality as fidelity goes to infinity."
(This is a common bridge that people build. It's behind everything from the ontological argument for God to "are we in a simulation?" It's pretty easy to see why people would land on this bridge in the modern world a lot, given the impact and effectiveness of the scientific method.)
Then, having decided this taxonomy, and built this bridge, the question of free will becomes pressing. If our mental models of our own mind, and others', become arbitrarily close to reality as fidelity goes to infinity ... how to humanize them, and ourselves, becomes both pressing and unclear. Do we build these models as deterministic things---sequences, or computer programs; put another way, numbers? Do we try to dodge the implications or mitigate the imperfection of our models by introducing randomness? If we understand the world in terms of replicable experiments with a statistical spread of outcomes, are we the deterministic constructs of the paper writing these things up, specific words in specific order, front to back, and ended, or the random results of individual experiments?
I grew up in this world. I find the base ideas here compelling. I loved the idea that everything was just a Gödel number as a kid. I spent way too many hours interrogating the ontological argument. But also there's something pretty wack in this line of thinking:
Existence and experience are the only things we even approach knowing to be real, so we probably shouldn't optimize them out of the equation.
Kittens
There are 3 kittens in need of a home in Portland, OR.
They're from the skittish stray that's been living under my friend's apartment building for the last few months; a neighbor caught two yesterday evening. (Gave them food and put them in a crate while they were distracted.) The third has kept her distance, but we're hoping she'll warm up to the idea tomorrow.
The plan is to TNR the Mom if she hangs around.
My friend is going to bathe and deworm them and let them decompress in their bathroom over the weekend and see where they're at socially. (Kittens appear to be 8 weeks of age, so that could go either way.)
If we can't find homes for these cuties my friend will take them to a shelter, but shelters are overloaded right now so we're hoping to avoid that.
Anyways, if you or someone you know has been thinking things like "wow, this clothing has no fur on it at all, how declasse" or "it's like every time I go to make my bed nothing gets in the way!" or "why do none of my friends ever have hairballs on my floor?" please reach out!
slowly, as if waking from a fever dream, I realize that Stuart Little and Stuart Semple are not the same
you should be allowed to skip physical therapy without consequences if you have a migraine
medieval peasants actually had access to far more Doritos than we do nowadays
oh! Is this the thing where they hid their Doritos in a secondary "hidden village" to dodge the sumptuary laws like in Dorito Shippuden?
The problem with the idea of the soul is, how does it get through doors? Your body goes in and then there's this weird transition and then you're on the other side of the door and like ... does your soul just *know* to move to your new location? Does it stay behind and they have to send a new soul down? Is this the origin of the door ghost epidemic?
does your understanding of a soul somehow divorce it from the body?
is your understanding of the thing that makes us alive somehow not connected to you as a person?
do you seriously think that if you lost your soul and got someone else's you would still be you?
why, in what universe, in what mindset- would a door ever be any kind of hindrance to something that lives inside of you???
You can't separate the concept of self from which side of the door you're on without opening the door to the possibility of opening the door to find an identical version of yourself on the other side that's already you because the only difference between them and you is that they're on the other side of the door and that's irrelevant (if you separate the concept of the self from which side of the door you're on) to the concept of the self!
... I think you're probably maybe confusing them with mirrors?
#but if the only difference is the side of the door#how can we open it?#wed both be pulling or pushing with the exact same strength leaving the door where it is
oh this one is easy you just move the hinges to the middle
Fascinating—you mean to say this would be some sort of multiple door that could open in both directions at once? With proper balancing I'm sure such a door could even close again with the same direction of rotation, allowing parties to move through it in both directions at once. Now wait just a minute...
I think I've just had an idea that's going to "revolutionize" the entrances to shopping malls everywhere!
do be careful though as for obvious reasons too many spindoors would slow the rotation of the Earth and lead to yet another tumblr-driven global catastrophe
The problem with the idea of the soul is, how does it get through doors? Your body goes in and then there's this weird transition and then you're on the other side of the door and like ... does your soul just *know* to move to your new location? Does it stay behind and they have to send a new soul down? Is this the origin of the door ghost epidemic?
does your understanding of a soul somehow divorce it from the body?
is your understanding of the thing that makes us alive somehow not connected to you as a person?
do you seriously think that if you lost your soul and got someone else's you would still be you?
why, in what universe, in what mindset- would a door ever be any kind of hindrance to something that lives inside of you???
You can't separate the concept of self from which side of the door you're on without opening the door to the possibility of opening the door to find an identical version of yourself on the other side that's already you because the only difference between them and you is that they're on the other side of the door and that's irrelevant (if you separate the concept of the self from which side of the door you're on) to the concept of the self!
... I think you're probably maybe confusing them with mirrors?
#but if the only difference is the side of the door#how can we open it?#wed both be pulling or pushing with the exact same strength leaving the door where it is
oh this one is easy you just move the hinges to the middle
god it must be so embarrassing to be Descartes after he stopped existing
come over
American diet and "healthy living" culture is insane and runs DEEP
who the heck is eating dice, cards, and pool
In his later years Pierre Menard moved on to writing AI-assisted text without a computer
It is raising troubling questions about Don Quixote
In his later years Pierre Menard moved on to writing AI-assisted text without a computer
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okay, found her
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i didnt expect these to hit so hard but then they kept going and going….my god
the world is so beautiful.
One of the worst things that can happen when you're writing is when a couple clauses accidentally have perfect rhyme and meter and the rest of the paragraph is so constrained that there's no way to fade gracefully back into normal prose.
my grand theory of the final DS9 seasons is that the Prophets are a metaphor for self-obsessed upper managers
DS9 Spoilers ahead:
In the first seasons, the Prophets made a good pitch for the idea that while they were completely bonkers it was because of their transformational leadership and future-first thinking---that they simply operated on a level that Sisko couldn't reach.
Later on, though, as he got to know them, they began to show up in the cubicle of his mind and tell him absolutely nothing in a lot of words. The one time he asked for help getting the resources he needed to do his job, the Prophets got incredibly huffy at his impertinence. Even later they would say things like
"You are the Sisko" ("you are an important member of the team, we value your contribution, we are aware of at least one of your names")
"The Sisko is of Bajor" ("we admire your devotion to the company ideals. You're a real Bajor man.")
various events ("Don't think of us as detached observers and overseers. Think of us as family.")
"If you do this you will know only sorrow" ("people who distract themselves with relationships will never get ahead in business")
various events ("That was the last thing we needed you for, you're fired. Per your noncompete you must now sit in a white room for a few centuries.")
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my grand theory of the final DS9 seasons is that the Prophets are a metaphor for self-obsessed upper managers
