Posts by Lanny

2016-07-03 at 7:15 PM UTC in Lauren Mayberry appreciation bread, NiS edition.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lavren's pretty cute but she looks unnervingly young in pictures sometimes.

Also Lavren posters are the cancer that's killing /mu/

Also how do you feel about her feminist rants and stuff?

2016-07-03 at 7:23 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Malice, have you noticed your rate of typos/spelling mistakes/grammatical errors has taken a sharp upward turn lately? I can't really talk because I make stupid grammar mistakes in like a solid half of the posts I make (I've considered that it's because I like deeply recursive grammatical structures on an aesthetic level and as a product of liking to speak tangentially but lacking the working memory to execute correctly) but you usually have very good construction, even in long posts, but that's changed in the last few I've read. Maybe lay off the parnate a bit

2016-07-03 at 6:24 AM UTC in RisiR, I came across this paper and it made me think of you

Lanny Bird of Courage

There's this "amateur philosophy" group around here, it sounds really cringy and it is (although not as bad as it sounds, most the people have formal training at some level) but it's fun and I enjoy it, mostly it works as an impetus to keep reading in the field now that I'm out of school. Anyway, last week's paper was The Reason to Be Angry Forever and it made me think of you. I intend it as neither a compliment nor an insult, but take it however you want. It's actually a passable argument, I don't don't think Callard can really claim it's a full account of the emotional states he discusses but the points generally don't require that much. The style is kind grating if you're used to reading more conventional writers but again, entirely forgivable.

So yeah

2016-07-03 at 2:43 AM UTC in Friends becoming Foes

Lanny Bird of Courage

That's fighting words. I have never talked shit about Malice once. I fo real tried to better his life by being a friend to him. Even if it's just online. I really tried to have a positive impact on his life because he can need every kind of help he gets.and I liked him from the get go.

What the fuck? I'm baffled.

You have to think about Malice differently than other people. We treat most people as if they are the sum of their actions, if Bob steals from you or calls you a faggot then that's good reason to believe Bob is going to try to do you harm in the future. With malice that's not really the case, he's not as devoid of emotions as he'd like to believe but there is no emotional inertia. He won't avoid calling you out if you've had positive interactions in the past and he won't hold a real grudge. He's brought up the story of his former principal calling him the most destructive person he (the principal) had ever met repeatedly and that's clearly an enduring self image.

You should engage him with that in mind. Interacting with him clearly has its charm, he's smart and highly entertaining but it's also kind of like interacting with a robot. Every conversation is closer to talking with a stranger than with a friend and the outcome is forgotten immediately afterwards. It's actually kind of refreshing once you get used to it, there's a kind of honesty in it, you don't need to try to spare his feelings and you know what you're getting is unenhancemented.

2016-07-03 at 12:24 AM UTC in Friends becoming Foes

Lanny Bird of Courage

What happened tho?

2016-07-02 at 9:44 PM UTC in Would you kill a vegetable-level human if you wouldn't get in trouble for it?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lets put it this way, guy is some child rapist, serial child rapist, or something. Maybe you don't think that's so bad and would have an easier time with killing a jaywalker, I don't know. He's a bad guy, alright? Now, he's harmless, vegetable level mentality, has zero awareness which is somehow objectively proven and understood. This man has no thoughts on whether he wants to live or die other than basic instinct to survive. This man won't fight back in the slightest.

Now, you won't get in trouble for killing him because I fucking said so. It's okay, I'm the boss in this scenario so what I say goes. Now, would you kill him? Could you kill somebody, even knowing they have no sentience to lose, and knowing that they are or at least were at one point, a horrible person?

If killing him were ever justified it would have been for the reason that he posed a future risk. Euthanizing non-sentient humans isn't wrong in my book but I don't consider it my job to do so. I wouldn't have a particular moral qualm with it I guess but it just wouldn't be worth my time.

2016-07-02 at 9:40 PM UTC in Just told my buddy that I'm suicidal and he's a total asshole about it

Lanny Bird of Courage

Every bit of advice I've given over the years has been bang on. You guys are just jealous, because you're still young and have little life experience.

C'mon. Admit it.

"I've literally never been wrong" --spectroll

2016-07-02 at 9:37 PM UTC in Bill Krozby's trashy summer reading list

Lanny Bird of Courage

Besides one of the later Harry Potter books when I was like 13 I don't think I've ever read a book in the year it was released.

Also I choose to believe Bill Krozby literally found a book called mien kamp: a book about a small pudgy german child who set up a campsite in the woods and spent a summer swimming in the Rhine and petting deer in ecstatic natural wonder. As summer drew to a close he bade nature fare well, broke up his little camp, and headed home. As years go by he goes through all the normal trials of growing up, first love and heartbreak, trying to find a place in the world but through every challenging episode he draws strength from the memory of his time in the forest, fondly recalling what it was to be truly alone and unafraid, fulfilled. He graduates and becomes a lawyer, a criminal defendant, he works hard to see the best in his clients and wins many of them a second chance. Whenever things seem bleak, a case isn't going his way or he makes a mistake in the courtroom, when he feels the pressure of the world bearing down on him he remembers lying on a hill just before dawn, the blackness of the sky and the trees just before the pre dawn explosion of colors, the deep purple to vibrant orange and red, and he remembers that it's going to be OK. He ends up marrying one of his clients, they have a daughter together and he takes pleasure in watching her grow up, in growing old with his wife. He spends many intimate moments with his family, they spend almost every weekend together, sometimes traveling to see far away things, sometimes simply playing board games on chilly winter days, but as close as he is with them he never tells them about his summer in the woods, his little camp. The only corner of his soul he holds back, that is his alone. In the solitude of nature all those years ago he learned the value of privacy. Time carries on, his daughter enters law school, dead set on becoming a lawyer like her father. The man starts to find himself a little more tired each day, eventually he hands the firm over to his younger ambitious partner and retires with his wife to a small but comfortable home outside the city, he spends his days reading or occasionally helping his former partner with legal research. Now that he's older he likes to wake early and watch the dawn, careful every morning not to wake his wife as he gets out of bed to stand in front of his living room window. Things continue this way for several more years. One day, climbing the steps at the local library he finds himself shorter of breath than usual. He mentions this to his doctor at his annual checkup a few weeks later, the usual tests are run but the results are bad. The doctor speaks in circles, polite as he has to be, but the man understands, he is old and was expecting as much. He goes home and says nothing to his wife, they enjoy their usual simple dinner and he embraces her tightly before they go to bed at the same early hour they always do. The man awakes earlier than even he is accustomed to, quietly dresses as he always does but instead of standing in front of his window with a cup of tea he gets in his car and drives, it's a few hours in the dark before he pulls to the side of the road. He parks the car, leaves the keys on the seat and heads into the dense forest, the same forest he walked through over 70 years ago. He had not returned since but he still knew the way, even in the dark. Although his body was not as strong as it had been before he walked with conviction, though his lungs burned the defiant heat of his labor drove the predawn chill from his limbs. After walking for a long time, with frequent stops, he arrived where he knew his campsite had been. It looked little like it did when he was a child, trees had fallen and grown and he knew the place only by the position of the river and the grade of the land and yet he knew he was here again. He sat down beneath a tree, felt the moss of the forest floor and looked up at the sky, it was brilliant orange and yet to the man it seemed to be getting darker rather than lighter. As he drew his final, shallow breath the man knew he had finally returned to... mine kamp.

2016-07-02 at 5:45 AM UTC in Just told my buddy that I'm suicidal and he's a total asshole about it

Lanny Bird of Courage

You have the power within yourself to be anything you want to be, do anything you want to do, live any life you want to live, and yet you pose as helpless, powerless, underprivileged brats.

10/10 slave mentality. Would fool with illusions of upward mobility again.

2016-07-01 at 4:58 AM UTC in What kind of vehicle do you have?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Well, post a picture of your bike or something.

Check out these babies:

They get me from point a to point b

2016-07-01 at 1:20 AM UTC in Why are perverts such fucking retards?

Lanny Bird of Courage

You would almost be driven to driven to doubting the reliability of a study over a 10 percentile divergence that doesn't align with an aspect of your worldview, formed largely by your highly limited and naturally skewed life experience and limited knowledge (Ponder the expansive data which would be required, the magnitude and complexity of a properly conducted study to determine the causal factors!)!?

Yes, it seems quite reasonable in fact. If a claim is contrary to your expectations, experiences, prior evidence then skepticism is wholly justified. I never said prior belief constitutes stronger evidence than a well conducted study, but I didn't look at a well conducted study, I looked at the chart posted out of context and if I were to accept the finding I'd want to learn about the actual methodology and findings as opposed to some vaguely sciency looking charts form a third hand source. Also if you read your own link you'd realize the chart in question was a campus survey for a college magazine, the link to which is now broken. We're not talking about the height of scientific rigor here.

I just don't know about you anymore, Lanny. Ever sense you began regularly indulging in psychedelics it seems I've repeatedly had moments where I've questioned whether you're on a course that will you away from the path of pure reason. In addition there has been the subsequent, yet tragic and understandable (I know it well to be painfully reminded that I remain all too human.), corrupting effects of the recent emotional impact stemming from the events in your familial life.

"path of pure reason", kek

No! The penile surplus, evolutionary history/theory, differential traits, promiscuity, sex drive (a region of the brain related to this is around 2x in volume or mass, IIRC, along with a myriad of other data. No, women are not "just as horny as men, societal/cultural factors aside.") anxiety, risk aversion, subconscious drivers effecting sexual behavior ->Selectiveness (keepers of the gate)

You just listed a bunch of nouns, I guess it kinda sounds smart in like a movie villain sort of way but it's not a real argument for anything.

Men can continue to spread their seed far and wide. Remember your gene centrality of evolution. Dawkin's seminal The Selfish Gene. Just because they can attain sex (far, far) more easily doesn't mean they will.

Again, this does nothing to explain why women at extrema points are more likely to have never had sex. The same evolutionary pressure to reproduce exists for the intelligent and unintelligent as for typical humans. The argument that low sex drive co-occurs with intelligence due to the opportunity cost of sex then it's an uphill battle to explain the reason for genetic intelligence in the first place and it still fails entirely to explain why the the graph for women is an arc rather than a descending line (that is we should expect women with low intelligence but presumably easy access to sex to have more sex since they don't have intellectual activities supposedly competing for their attention and ever evolutionary reason to have a high sex drive).

2016-07-01 at 12:48 AM UTC in What kind of vehicle do you have?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I don't have a car

I don't have a license

I don't know how to drive

2016-06-30 at 7:47 AM UTC in Why are perverts such fucking retards?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Interesting charts. I think conventional wisdom would predict the line for women would be flatter than for men, "women get by on looks" and such, you wouldn't think intelligence would have a strong impact one way or the other.

Also I'm really surprised wellesley comp sci majors get laid more often than phil majors, almost to the point of doubting the reliability of the study.

2016-06-30 at 2:24 AM UTC in Why are perverts such fucking retards?

Lanny Bird of Courage

[greentext]>no newzealand[/greentext]

The anglopshere sure is exclusionary

2016-06-29 at 3:50 PM UTC in Why are perverts such fucking retards?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I do wonder what the motivation to post comments on porn sites is at all, I think you usually need to sign up for an account which is also something I'm not sure I see the benefit in. Like do people experience sexual gratification tacking a comment onto a video or something? Are they earnestly trying to communicate their preference to other people jerking off? The economics of comments on porn videos is puzzling to me.

2016-06-29 at 3:42 PM UTC in ITT we discuss the Brexit, the musical stylings of florence and the machine,

Lanny Bird of Courage

lol, Oz should totally make a move on that EU vacancy. They're basically degenerate brits and oz bucks are worthless anyway and the abbos are already there so it's not like you racist cunts would stand to lose anything.

2016-06-29 at 3:33 PM UTC in Donald trump wont win (whistle blower)

Lanny Bird of Courage

JFk was killed by LBJ and prescott bush

2016-06-29 at 1:58 AM UTC in ITT we discuss the Brexit, the musical stylings of florence and the machine,

Lanny Bird of Courage

"britandonment"
"engvacuation"
"abongdoment"

2016-06-29 at 1:49 AM UTC in Unnecassery Negative Users

Lanny Bird of Courage

ITT: shitposting

2016-06-28 at 4:58 PM UTC in What are you?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I don't "identify" with my past or future in the sense that I consider myself to share an identity with the organism we'd colloquially call me. Identity, taken in a strict sense, implies certain properties that I don't think the common notion of time-persistent self can satisfy (transitivity specifically). That's not to say I don't think I have any meaningful relationship with my past and future "selves", specifically I think I have certain entitlements and responsibilities inherited from what preceded me (I may not be the same Lanny as posted yesterday, but I'm still obligated to fulfill promises which that Lanny made) and I consider the interests of those beings which will follow me (i.e. those entities which fulfill the common concept of "me" across time) to be roughly as important as my own interests (by analogy parent's don't share an identity with their children but we usually wouldn't call them nuts for defending their child's interests even to their own detriment).

This looks functionally just like our common notion of self but it's significant because it allows us to give coherent answers to things like branching problems or replacement problems: if I'm cloned I should defend the interests of both my cloned self and the "original" as if both were my own. If enough of my parts are replaced I may not be the same thing as today, I may not share an identity with the parts-substituted me, but if it fulfills certain conditions (it has my memories, my mental structure, my soul or an equivalent one if such a thing exists) then I should regard it as having the same status as the thing that wakes up in my bed tomorrow with a lot more cells in common with me.

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