Iconoclast @ Iconoclast @feddit.uk

Refusing to reduce complex reality into slogans and clichés since 19XX

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I keep trying to come up with a project that would justify renting one for a weekend. I just want to get to operate one.

I left reddit out of principle but I decided I wasn't done causing brain damage to myself just yet.

Still waiting for further explanation.

No he wasn’t.

Bohemian Grove turned out to be very much a real thing.

You don't need to like or agree with him, but twisting the reality isn't helpful. The question wasn't what you think of him. That's a subjective question. Whether he was right about anything is an objective one.

Nobody here is defending anything he has said or done so I have no clue where that rambling is coming from.

I thought you were being a smartass - sorry about that.

No, there are thing I'd like to be otherwise but broadly speaking I'm satisfied where I am and I wouldn't want to start tweaking anything because I can't know the unforeseen consequences of it. This is good enough.

Yes. I'm absolutely flawless.

Anything else?

Please explain.

Yksi paikallinen lohkare on tuota ainakin 2 - 3 kertaa suurempi. Ylivoimasesti isoin jota olen koskaan nähnyt. Jollain tapaa jopa pelottavan näköinen nähdä jotain niin suurta noin vain yksinään nököttämässä metsässä. En löydä mitään tietoa kyseisestä kivestä netistä joten ihmettelen, että kuinka laajasti on ihmisten tiedossa edes. On siellä tosin geokätkö myös ja maastokartassa nimellä Venäjäkivi.

It's not that the explanation we give isn't necessarily based on reality but rather that it's an educated guess at best. We simply don't have access into the depths of our minds to the extent that we can genuinely access the source code and find the ultimate reason for why we act the way we do and why we hold certain beliefs and such. We can always give an explanation for why we don't like something for example but it's always post-hoc. You can't think of a thought before you think it and the reason why you think X rather than Y will always remain mysterious to you.

Like I said, I don't believe in free will and by extension I don't believe in the "self" either as in there being this "rider on a horse" located behind your face looking out into the world and making decisions. Life happens to us rather than we happening to live. We're just along for the ride. You didn't pick your genes nor the environment you live in. You could've been born in a different place to different parents and hold beliefs that are completely opposite to the beliefs you hold now and it would all equally make sense to you, seem moral and feel like the rational stance to have.

We live in a deterministic universe and we're not in control of any of it. The best we can do is to look for patterns and try to make sense of it. Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesn't. This isn't so much an absolute truth claim about human existence but rather the worldview I've pieced together based on the thousands of hours I've spent learning about human psychology and behaviour and one that best seems to explain why things are the way they are. There's not really anything for me to gain from trying to convert people into this worldview. If they want to explore the topic I'm willing to engage but whether they adopt the views themselves or not doesn't really affect me whatsoever.

I view life as a deterministic "chain reaction" of current events following from past events and me just being along for the ride so I assume all of it affects my adult life. An insignificant seeming change then could dramatically have affected the trajectory of my life. I wouldn't change anything because it all is what led to me being what I am now.

You sure have a lot of questions about leggings.

And schools should have economics and personal finances as part of the curriculum.

Nobody is hoarding money. Scrooge McDuck is a bad caricature of a rich person - that's not how any of it works.

It's ridiculous. Maxxus T90 similarly only offer version with long cab and short bed. This way the manufacturers ensure that nobody whose like me and actually uses a pickup to transport stuff won't buy it.

Secret society is a label you attach to it to make it sound more ominous so that it better fits your narrative. For all we know, this probably isn't more than a WhatsApp group.

If you don't mind the tactical look you can't go wrong with Savotta. It's a Finnish brand that makes outdoor gear for hikers and the Finnish army. All made in Europe. Check out Jääkäri S or Niukka 20L for example. Guranteed BIFL.

Sold at Varusteleka for example.

I don't want to be guessing what you're trying to say here. If you want me to respond then attach a comment to your picture post. Though, if it's along the lines of "these are all pedophile fascists" then I'm not interested in even hearing it.

Somewhere around 60% I guess. I'm self employed so I don't have a steady income and I'm not sure what it averages to per month. As long as I see my wealth steadily increasing I don't worry too much about it.

It's not so much that I don't think bad people exist - I just don't believe in them authoring that bad behaviour and then being personally responsible for it as if they could've acted otherwise. I think free will is an illusion - we're victims of our genes and environment. I view "bad people" the way I view a grizzly bear wandering around a neighbourhood: it's a problem that needs to be dealt with but I don't blame the bear for being dangerous as if it could choose not to be. With violent criminals this might mean locking them up, but not as punishment - just to protect others. They're broken people and it's not their fault. If I was in their place I'd act the same way.

This all applies to good people as well btw.

I'm no neuroscientist but I don't think this has anything to do with the two hemispheres being separated - it's just how the human mind works. When something happens we come up with an explanation for it that's sometimes factual and sometimes completely made up. These people don't know that they're making it up - they genuinely believe the reason they're giving. We're not comfortable with uncertainty, especially when it comes to our own behavior.

I'm personally one of the people who doesn't believe in free will so these findings make perfect sense to me and are in no way in conflict with my worldview, but I get how hearing about this might make someone else uncomfortable.

There's an uncomfortable amount of similarities between how the human brain and LLMs work.

Next word correlating with the words said before, confidently spreading false information, telling people what they want to hear.. These are by no means unique to LLMs.