Posts by Lanny

1. 2016-10-18 at 3:41 AM UTC in why was spectral doxxed?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   I was never really doxxed. All the information they "got" was incorrect and totally bogus. And anyone could have easily checked that, too. I just used the technique as a way to disrupt the administration, as a way of getting at the corrupt ring-leader of the power abusers, zok. I used their own PI rule against them, and ran circles around them, while they tried to "get their policy straight". A lot of their lapdogs got banned. Mod turned against mod. Admin turned against mod, and mod turned against admin. Finally, zok had to just throw up his hands and leave the power structure to the few power abusers he had left. Divide and conquer. And you know what? They all got exactly what they deserved. They got what they asked for. They got what they wanted. And you won't see me shedding any tears. We are one. We are many. Resistance is futile.

   
   Lol, everyone knew your taggart thing was bullshit, it just shows that darkhunter trolled your candy ass so hard you had to make up some fake PI and cry, like a little bitch, the mods to get him banned. Ironic that you so frequently whined about mods "hiding behind control panels" when you had to hide behind their skirts when someone bruised your fragile little ego in order to have the offender forcibly removed from your sight. You think you're clever spectal, but you're a cunt who achieved so great a feat as tricking a few power tripping members of the elite force known as unpaid moderators on a shitty internet forum because you're so fucking bad at the whole internet forum thing (despite having supposedly done of since the dawn of time) that you don't know how to deal with someone calling you out.
2. 2016-10-18 at 2:48 AM UTC in why was spectral doxxed?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   ^malice didn't kill shit, I expected his idiotic autistic backlash. He repeats the same narrative about me over and over and over again whenever I say something he doesn't agree with, and I'm never ashamed, If I was so ashamed I would have never of posted it in the first place.

   
   I'm glad man, there's nothing wrong with being gay. Be proud homo.
3. 2016-10-17 at 5:04 AM UTC in Psychedelics: A Most Sinister Plot
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Fine, let's say vivid accounts of experiences that are in every reportable measure the same as experiences had under the effects of psychedelics do not qualify as evidence of a psychedelic experience. With this standard of evidence in mind please remind me what has convinced you liserd people or what have you maintain some sort of dominion over the modern drug experience.
4. 2016-10-17 at 4:07 AM UTC in Psychedelics: A Most Sinister Plot
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   OK, so if you actually want to take the 'invasion via psychedelic experiences' thing seriously then see my last post.
   
   I don't know what you think "intellidelic' means, but the point I was making is that the variety of experience we have under the effects of LSD is, as far as available evidence suggests, the same as many thinkers throughout history have had in relevant dimensions, whatever you want to call it.
5. 2016-10-17 at 1:47 AM UTC in Psychedelics: A Most Sinister Plot
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Certainly, and the same can be said about the "love experience", but maybe those changes are part of their plan.

   
   I mean if you want to consider the notion of some kind of controlling entity, be it simple or complex, which exerts its will through certain human experiences like love or those of the psychedelic variety then fine, let's do it. I will posit that some of my experience is determined by some kind of external controlling force and I will assume it aims to obfuscate reality in so far as it is able, for to do otherwise insofar as it does is to trivialize it (i.e. that being which controls my experience yet makes it perfectly like a perception of reality might as well not exist, there is no phenomenological difference between the world where such an entity exists and one where it does not). This sounds strikingly like Descartes' demon, so much so that I will assume the situation thus described is reducible to Cartesian systematic doubt. If you disagree then we can discuss it but I think it stands pretty uncontroversial.
   
   So then we stand where Descartes did almost 600 years ago. I'll state plainly that I reject, and I think most sane people with an appreciation of the synthetic/analytic distinction will do the same, two of Descartes' moves. Firstly I reject a presupposition of God or Anselm's borrowed argument that we can arrive at the conclusion of God's existence from a position of methodological doubt. Secondly I reject Descartes' doctrine that mathematical truths, or more generally the truths of formal systems are doubtable in a system where the ontological argument holds (specifically I think truths of formal systems are provable under weaker conditions than the ontological argument and as such I accept the former as certain while rejecting the latter but this prioritization is not essential). Where then does this leave us? It sets as uncertain every object of sense data, I know not whether or not the demon exists but I can be sure of truths in formal systems. This sounds a lot like the milieu in which modern philosophy has developed. Indeed I advance the assertion of such a sensorially controlling entity as has been heretofore described changes nothing about the fundamental assumptions human activity has proceeded under since the dawn of civilization: we have no perfected epistemology and yet a seemingly consistent reality seems to compel us to take the natural position. We may rightly doubt it, and consider any object of sensory input suspect but at last analytic truths may be taken as infallible, as weak a domain as that is, and we seem to have advantage insofar as we assume there is no obstructing demon nor means to overcome such an entity if it does exist thus it behooves our interests, regardless of the reality of the matter, to act on the assumption that no such entity exists and that our senses, free from detectable interference and with the ever present caveat of integration, report reality to us.
6. 2016-10-16 at 11:32 PM UTC in Psychedelics: A Most Sinister Plot
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Ignoring what seems to be trolling in the notion of extradimensional invasion via psychedelia I think it's worth trying to unpack the "only primitive shamanistic cultures incorporate the psychedelic experience" proposition, specifically to deny it. I think that if we look at the history of western culture (to say nothing of the popularity of psychedelic drugs in the west over the last century) we'll find a lot of examples of psychedelia although not usually in the form of a drug experience, qualitatively the same. In the medieval period we see a lot of reports of transcendent religious experiences with striking similarities to psychedelic drug effects, the vision of Teresa of Avila and Aquinas, both documented, as well as the writings of pseudo-Dionysius and Anselm which leave the striking impression they were had under psychedelic circumstances. In the ancient period records are poor but but it booze or drugs or anything else it's easy to think the Greeks in such thinkers as Thales, Zeno of Elea, and Parmenides were acquainted with altered states and taking as suppositions cornerstones of thought. In the pre-LSD modern period we have thinkers like Descartes and the phenomenological tradition in Jaspers and Sartre. And while it's not exactly broadcasted, most writers in the field of theory of mind and many mathematicians today are quite clearly influenced by drug induced psychedelic experiences.
   
   Whether or not it's via entheogenic drugs, the psychedelic experience is an ingrained facet of western culture and spirituality. Certainly we don't seem to have any socially sanctioned institution for reliably inducing it but that doesn't mean it hasn't shaped our civilization in profound ways.
7. 2016-10-16 at 6:20 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   That's incredibly selfish of you, Lanny, I don't believe it's compatible with your espoused views, but your kind does tend to be hypocrites.

   
   Selfish, sure, but I don't think that makes me a hypocrite. Self sacrifice is not the only worthwhile endeavor, living happily for one's self so long as it doesn't harm others is perfectly justifiable. That's not to say a more altruistic lifestyle is not better, but there's a difference between moral sufficiency and perfection. Also I'd argue a few good papers probably do more for the human condition than a programmer's surplus income in direct aid, which is what I'd like to spend my days on. Lack of access to academic publishing without connection to a university is tricky but not incurable.
   
   

   Still, you should know that this really isn't a good idea.

   
   Yeah, it's not realistic and the potential for harm is obvious. Still, it's nice to fantasize about now and then.
8. 2016-10-16 at 6:15 PM UTC in Race Relations, The Complicit Subjugation of India, And the Meaning of Responsibility
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I mean within an hour of waking up, but it gets to the point of melodramatic posting about race relations sometime around 7 or 8
9. 2016-10-16 at 5:16 PM UTC in Race Relations, The Complicit Subjugation of India, And the Meaning of Responsibility
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   drunkposting, woo
   
   

   I bet you can't program those dope moves

   
   true blood, can't program mad fire
   
   

   Good read dude. It was funny, The way to your perfect world is a black gold revolution though. Also India is dank, if you're not in the slums, and Indian girls are pretty cute and crave the white man cock. I bet i could save up a few thousand bucks, pay some Indian father a dowry and marry his 11 year old daughter and everyone would be happy. Including the girl because i would treat her right and provide for her a good standard of living.

   
   Yeah, the marriage situation is wierd/difficult. It's definitely unpalatable in some dimensions but most days I'm like "well that's just their culture, I don't have a privileged position from which I can fairly judge it" and I mean there's undeniably a very real economic dimension in western marriage as well.
10. 2016-10-16 at 5:01 PM UTC in ATTN: Need New Lanny Thread
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    subject: spectral
    status: unfunny
11. 2016-10-16 at 8:06 AM UTC in Race Relations, The Complicit Subjugation of India, And the Meaning of Responsibility
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Are you aware that India's best universities are set up to enhancement human beings into the worst portions of the American tech industry? They advertise and train people for the satisfaction of the American appetite for cheap mediocre software. The immediate product of this is a tidal wave of shitty, cheap (although not as cheap as you might think, owing to contracting fees) entirely incompetent developers into the market but I mean the US produces entirely enough developers who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The real tragedy here is that there are intelligent computer scientists born on the subcontinent, whatever rhetoric you want to spin about genetic intelligence and related cherry pickings even the most ardent "race realist" (TOP KEK) must admit it's a stochastic process that there exist people falling into the demographic of competent, smart, capable human beings in this vast diverse swath of land and they are bowed, bent, and broken to serve a disgusting want of the american public entirely below their capacity. I will talk shit as the day is long on shitty indian developers and related technicians and the industry of corruption the foists so many of them upon the american market yet I weep for the poor fuck among them with a mind for something better than being a commodity bought and sold with no greater expectations than a farmer has of their livestock.
    
    The labor market dehumanizes us all, yet those of true intellect among the american import are most maligned of all. Participation in this system of exploitation disgusts me, as do so many other forms of participation, and I only hope that one day my guilt might be washed away in a bloody revolution that ends both this system of inhuman pseudo-slavery and my own blackened conscious for my part in the perpetuation of so immediate and undeniable a form of human degradation. Disgust, sickening nausea, and self loathing. These are the harvest reaped from such a wretched crop of inequitable advantage as is software today. Like locust SJWs crawl over the carcass of american tech and yet we deserve it and more still, for it is a vast machine of evil.
    
    COWER IN SHAME BEFORE THE HIDEOUS HOMUNCULUS YOUR GREED HAS WROUGHT!
12. 2016-10-16 at 7:02 AM UTC in What is Life?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I've seen that before, but longer, it ran for like 30 minutes and the bizarreness of it was memorable, I think I watched all of it. Did you post it or did I see it somewhere else?
13. 2016-10-16 at 6:13 AM UTC in What is Life?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    So we have two fat posts of pasta but not apparent answer to the question. Can we get a tl;dr or something? I don't think anyone who's going to take the time to read that wall of text needs the phil 100 "science is not the be all end all of human knowledge" speech.
14. 2016-10-16 at 2:17 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I'd trade the last 10 years of technological advancement for a 20 hour work week, I'll trade the next decade for the same. Good/cheap consumer GPUs and high bandwidth cross-continent networking were the last two pieces of interesting hardware. Mocap is a gimmick and VR is cool but not fundamentally different. There's no piece of technology likely to come about in that time frame that really matters to me.
    
    It's pretty absurd we've managed such staggeringly improved economic efficiency and yet we still have about the same amount of leisure as half a century ago. I've been thinking more and more about moving somewhere with a really low cost of living and holing up with some books and hobby projects. I think I could make it roughly 15 years without having to work. My main concern is that I would drink myself to death in that time without the natural check of a day job against benders, on the other hand I sometimes think it's a day job that causes that impulse in the first place. And then finding employment after that may be challenging. The whole school/work/retirement scheme is pretty ill conceived, at least from the perspective of the laborer.
15. 2016-10-15 at 10:37 PM UTC in What kind of fuckwit takes life seriously?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    oh, coordinated posting, nice! Do you guys call each other on sunday night so you can match clothes on monday?
16. 2016-10-15 at 7:41 PM UTC in What kind of fuckwit takes life seriously?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    That was autocorrect messing up translation
17. 2016-10-15 at 8:03 AM UTC in What kind of fuckwit takes life seriously?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    The fact the the inbred deliverance-tier amazonian savages were able to invent a parable that rhymes when transplanted into a language they didn't even knows exists is kinda impressive
18. 2016-10-15 at 7:09 AM UTC in What kind of fuckwit takes life seriously?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I want you to re-read this thread and cringe at yourself.
    
    And yes, before you say it, I know exactly what level of ironic you were trying to be.
19. 2016-10-15 at 4:29 AM UTC in Its interesting how water can go thru glass
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    lol
20. 2016-10-15 at 4:23 AM UTC in thT FEELL when cowards ban you on TC
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    mfw