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2016-02-10 at 4:35 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionSaid from the beginning that Hillary won the election when Trump decided to run. Sanders just isn't viable in 2016, even if he's done a lot better than you would think a self described socialist could in the US, he's a meme. He might have had a chance if he survived the primaries but he won't. Trump is, of course, the same thing in reverse but the difference is 2012 made it clear how vulnerable the GoP is to having their primary turned into an irredeemable shitshow that haunts whoever happens to comes out on top. It doesn't matter who wins the republican primaries at this point, Cruz and Trump are both fucked.
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2016-02-10 at 4:21 AM UTC in How did you get your username?
I mean, I don't think I look fucked up. I'm on TC a lot so I guess you can decide for yourself if I do or not.
I've read your handle like a bunch of times now and thought it was "What a Keep" and thinking of what that meant (I was like 50/50 between "Keep" a castle or whatever and "what a keeper", like something you want to hang onto) and just a minute ago in TRT realized you were Kreepy Kay and it was "kreep" all along. -
2016-02-10 at 4:15 AM UTC in Wrote a new love letter to AshleyP.S. phenibut and a glass or two of wine is actually bretty decent
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2016-02-10 at 4:13 AM UTC in Wrote a new love letter to Ashley
Thread saved, backed up and copies saved on floppy disks and launched with sattelites of containing proof of our existance and saved on cold storage fusion servers floating around the moon like the Voyager Golden Record. Make us proud sploo.
I read this essay by OPN about Kenny G recently that was kind of a rant but a central theme was like resetting stupid things in a different context. He kinda uses "stupid" in a special way, you can tell he's looking for a word he doesn't quite have, like as a way of describing things and behaviours are done authentically (that is not specifically or clearly for comedy) but frowned upon. Not like in the "sex is frowned on" way but like in the "being an autist is frowned on" way. And then the opposite process of taking something authentic and "good" and through misuse making it unseemly, like when your favorite musician turns up on a TV ad or something and you're like "well that's lame" or the Nth entry in a series that used to be good but has long since jumped the shark. And the thing that unifies those two phenomena. It was interesting, while reading it I could help but think of old HB and the sites that followed totse. From other stuff it's obvious OPN was into niche backwaters of the internet ala totse, early 4chan, the more obscure but slower moving specialty forums of the 90s/early 2000s. Like sometimes I look over the new topics page and think to myself "there will never be more humans who will understand what this means than there are today" and the fact that in like 80 years tops there will be literally no one with the context to understand what this whole thing is yet we have every reason to believe the data will outlive us. There's a real chance someone somewhere in the distant future will stumble on splooXashley obsession threads or the retarded thread or HTS's original highlighter thread and there will be literally no way for them to understand what it meant and that person will need to some up with an elaborate story and who and what sploo is, why he's like this, what "spice" meant in 2016 and a whole host of other details that meet available facts only at a few sparse points on a line and it's fascinating to think about how far that could stray from the truth. Will our decontextualized reader give up, blow it off as a joke in bad taste? Will the believe it? Will they miss the self-satire?
Kurzweil, in one of his nuttier moves, is apparently keeping a bunch of old papers of his dad's, his handwriting, some scores, things he thinks contain some of the mental essence of his father. He, in his own words, aims to one day recreate his father from this, or something like him. I wonder if I all the posts from here, stripped of poster names, onto a CD and hid it somewhere I'd be reasonably sure it would be discovered after some time (maybe think up some legal contraption whereby it can be unsealed along with some reasonable amount of money to motivate someone 50 years after my death) and when a future person found it they put it through whatever program is going to turn Kurzweil's papers into an father figure AI. Like if the essence of a human was captured in a collection of work imagine the heinous thing that would be, in essence, constituted by this. The level of terrible that would be is really kinda impressive. Like how the absence of energy in some region of space would actually be a very low entropy region, how a vacuum can exert force in the presence of matter. Sometimes a thing can be so bad that it transcends the noise of usual badness, it becomes a negative outlier, by merit of its terribleness it becomes a cognitive low-entropy zone and its informed appreciation actually becomes a pleasure, like a fine wine or some shit. -
2016-02-09 at 4:33 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030161416.htm
Haha! Lanny! Tradeoffs. Thinking vs feeling. As I've said before, the meaning of the word empathy is generally misunderstood, misrepresented. It isn't necessarily compassionate/altruistic concern for others, for their hardships, it's the vicarious experiencing of emotion and can more accurately be described as rationalism/systemizing vs emotion drivenness, There are also the implications for gender.
On that last point, I had a thought related to reflection on past experiences. Instead of anger I'm going to try to change my default response to disappointment. I much prefer this feeling, melancholy rather than toxic.
Then I think I'm going to follow your lead: instead of being mad you posted such a shitty pop-sci article I'm just going to be disappointed that your mental condition may have deteriorated far enough that article gives us reason to believe in anything other than the ineptitude of the "science media". -
2016-02-09 at 6:07 AM UTC in Petition to ban Sploo, Rocklin, Sophie, Bill Krozbyler, Idio, Dissociator, Lanny and Arnox
That's an interesting question because it's such a bad lineup. I would bet on Rocklin just because everyone else is so bad.
Hey, I'll have you know my borderline alcoholism and stagnant lifestyle have made me a fighting machine. Whatever I lack in raw strength I make up for with my ability to literally bore people to death via extended monologue. -
2016-02-09 at 5:54 AM UTC in Should we let this scum into the West? Is it too late?
The west has no obligation to these so-called "refugees". We are all one, and I don't just mean humans I mean everything, but I do not believe that implies we should just lay down and let these people invade our land and take over and spread their religion any more than it implies we should just lay down and let bacteria invade our bodies and take over and spread their disease.
So what exactly does it mean that "we are all one"? I don't mean "give me an explanation", I mean what's the difference between that being a true or false proposition if it doesn't inform our moral judgments? It would seem if unity commits you to any tangible behaviour it would be some sort of duty to the other parts of whatever it is you propose we are parts of. -
2016-02-06 at 3:53 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionMalice, you may be interested in what's transpiring in this thread: http://niggasin.space/forum/reinvent-yourself/63542-i-will-no-longer-be-posting-on-this-website if you don't know already.
Also RisiR, post a trip report, would be interesting to read although from what I understand about DMT it seems like trip reports may be difficult. -
2016-02-06 at 2:43 AM UTC in A network of forumsgo away spectroll, no one cares and it has nothing to do with this thread
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2016-02-06 at 1:49 AM UTC in Experience Machine4 sho mang, always good to have someone to bullshit phil topics with.
And if you really are the ole cap't then it's good to have you around. All those times I raged over your (retrospectively obvious) trolling were good times, even if I didn't think so at the time. -
2016-02-06 at 1:43 AM UTC in do i have the best life out of anyone here?I'm not sure what it has to do with this thread but Bukowski was clearly the superior author. Although he may have been "simple" by some standards, just like jazz was the natural american form of music around which an intelligentsia formed, so too did Bukowski's authenticity immediately cement itself as foundational in the american, if not western, canon. Tucker Max is just a slightly-more-articulate-than-average hack who somehow embodies what would otherwise be considered a totally unrealistic caricature, practically a boogeyman, of our culture. Where Bukowski makes you weep for what he didn't say Max makes you cringe for what he did. Anyone who can raise enough hackles will get some temporary fame, but while controversy may have been becoming of Bukowski it wasn't his only trick. Bukowski is both immediately recognizable as a symbol of his time and, over half a century later, intimately familiar with elements of the american narrative that it's pretty much impossible to imagine frat-boy-pseudo-parody as even coming close to touching.
^lanny fix your website you pleb, I can't make any threads.
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2016-02-06 at 1:21 AM UTC in Should we let this scum into the West? Is it too late?
Do you honestly believe the millions of people invading the European Nations are going to integrate into Western society?
I never even came close to implying that. If you were a little less zealous in your (increasingly racist, empty, and misinformed) rhetoric you'd have probably realized that. I'm simply pointing out that if you genuinely believed in human unity you would think you would have more sympathy for a group of people you supposedly believe are part of the same whole and who would reasonably have the same moral status as you or (other?) europeans.From one perspective we are all united. From one way of looking at things, we are all connected, we are all one. IMHO there is no deeper spiritual feeling than what this realization brings to me.
Clearly not everyone has this same perspective. Some people believe they are chosen. Some people believe it is their duty to march over this world as they believe their "one true god" wants them to. They want to destroy your way of life.
I would love it if everyone could understand that we are all connected, that we are all connected to the world as well as to each other, but I don't believe that will happen today or tomorrow. And if we want to stick around and enjoy life and hopefully spread the message, we cannot lay down and let them walk all over us.
So your response to (some) immigrants having a zealous belief in a one true god is to leave them all to a terrible fate so that you can spread your own one true message of maybe-unity? -
2016-02-05 at 9 AM UTC in Experience Machine
The important distinction to make is the difference between knowledge and operative "capacity". Knowledge as Descartes refers to it is absolute certainty. The most basic fact, which we can be sure no demon is messing with so to speak, is that something must be doing the thinking and cannot be conceived without. The analogy he gives in Principia Philosophiae is to the mason's tools; a mason can carve stone with his tools without understanding the mechanics of the tools, but he can determine those mechanics by using the tools, and surely the operation and function of the tools is based upon those mechanics, with or without his ability to discern it at first.
There's a whole range of philosophers who reject "knowledge" as only that which Descartes considers to have sufficient criteria to be undoubtable. Pragmatists are one obvious example, Descartes kinda handwaves mathematical truths as being unknowable a priori but I think possibly a majority of philosophers would disagree, we really can know mathematical truths with whatever level of confidence we know we exist. And of course most philosophers think his proof of god and reliable sensory information falls through so in so far as one thinks knowledge exists at all one seems committed to the idea that cogito ergo sum is not foundational to all knowledge.I would disagree with that. I can't think of a single mainstream philosopher that would say that the theory of knowledge does not require it as a foundation upon which to base and judge our perception of the world.
So again, see pragmatists. Positivists would generally reject the idea that knowledge or meaning fails to exist without an argument stemming from cogito ergo sum. And almost no one uses the term "knowledge" to mean "that which is an immediate logical contradiction to doubt". -
2016-02-05 at 8:09 AM UTC in FBI cracks TOR Browser Bunlde in Unprecedented CP Bust..I'm not really convinced that gathering information about someone who has verifiably broken the law constitutes unreasonable search and seizure but w/e.
I don't like the way it's represented as "this is vulnerability with tor", especially in non-technical media. It was an issue with firefox that existed in like 5 versions of stable, it just happened to also exist in the version TBB bundled. -
2016-02-05 at 7:51 AM UTC in Should we let this scum into the West? Is it too late?
What is your opinion on the refugee invasion?
Aren't you the one that's all about "spiritual unity" and shit? Doesn't this seems like pretty much the opposite of that? -
2016-02-05 at 7:10 AM UTC in A network of forumsYeah, there would be some weird situations that would come up, if a user were banned from server A but not server B and continued to post on B the whole DB state would drift apart. I don't think there's any sane way of doing it without either waiting for consensus for the ban to take effect or having the ban take effect immediately. There's also a whole host of race conditions in any system with writable replicas but I do think that issue would be solvable in the context of a forum.
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2016-02-05 at 7:03 AM UTC in Make America Great AgainI can't tell if these republican candidate joke accounts are making fun of the candidates or serious. Leaning towards making fun of them, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
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2016-02-05 at 6:40 AM UTC in Experience Machine
Empiricism claims only that knowledge cannot be gained without experience. This is true, but it neither contradicts nor does away with the need for cogito. In a nutshell, the empiricist "dispute" is that the ability to arrive to cogito in the first place is shaped and made possible by experience, and that we get our knowledge and ability to get to that point before we get to it. As Locke said, upon birth, the mind is a tabula rasa, and it is furnished with information and our ability to reason, by experience. This does not remove the validity of cogito though, which at its core is the claim that there is only one feature of existence that we cannot doubt (or rather do away with) if we apply pure reason, and that is the fact that we are thinking.
Well I think that would rule out Descartes cogito ergo sum as the "one core fact from which we can derive knowledge" if we need different knowledge (the non-innate ability to reason) to arrive at it (plus, arguably, some background information like "I'm thinking" and "doubting requires thinking") or if we can have knowledge that doesn't need Descartes' argument in its support (i.e. knowledge about the world gained from experience).Empiricism does not take issue with this, because for all you know, your senses themselves could be being
spooked by Spagett!tricked by the evil Demon, we could be a brain in a vat and so forth. It is the basis of modern philosophy, and almost no philosopher that I'm aware of takes issue with that core idea. What empiricism does take issue with is what Descartes said further about the derivation of "knowledge" (primarily mathematics) from "innate ideas", for as stated above, these ideas, they argue, are themselves formed from the information we have received from our sense. It is silly to say, for example, that we are simply born with the logical capacity to internally produce mathematical concepts, because "god" just gifted them to us, so to speak.
Sure, but I never said cogito ergo sum was controversial, but its status as a necessary foundation for all other knowledge is.Footnote: lanny, I'm not being allowed to access my PMs or make threads (which is why I'm not posting this in the Help forum). I receive this message:
Ah, sorry about that. Does it work now? -
2016-02-05 at 5:06 AM UTC in do i have the best life out of anyone here?
Hmm.. I haven't read Faust in English so I just looked up some quotes and stuff in case I wanted to post here. Fuck languages.
​"So this then was the kernel of the brute". I have no idea what that' supposed to mean but in the German version it says "So das also war des Pudels Kern" which describes Mephisto's deceptive nature by comparing it to a poodle. That's one of the most quoted lines here. A kernel isn't a poodle, though, right? Isn't it a big dog? That would totally miss the point. Is it even a dog? Wut?
"pudles" is translated to "brute" here, which is kind of an archaic usage but on a literal reading any animal could be described as a brute. "kernel" means core or center, presumably referring to Mephisto's nature, as you put it. -
2016-02-04 at 3:19 AM UTC in Lanny, can we post webm's?
Yeah, we need support for embedded youtube/webms, lanny. >: (
Youtube has worked for ages, just wrap a link in [video] tags. As for webMs, I would have to host them which would cost something in storage/bandwidth and be a slightly larger legal risk (i.e. if people post child porn at least I'm not hosting the content). As opposed to linking youtube or any file hosting site, I don't really see the advantage.[/video]
