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2021-11-13 at 4:29 AM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox ThreadGetting all caught up on "determinism" and "retrocausality" and shit like some kind of brain genius is nerd shit. Doesn't matter.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-27 at 8:11 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?
Originally posted by mmQ Hey c'mon you don't always get to be the voice of reason, same some for the rest of us.
Sorry.
I'm not trying to be the "voice of reason" or anything, I'm just trying to be annoying. It's simply an unfortunate coincidence that the people I'm trying to annoy happen to find reason, of all things, annoying.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-11-12 at 8:51 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox Thread
Originally posted by Lanny You know that's wrong you nigger. You know A+B is correct, you just wanted to meme. Fuck you Lucy, fuck you.
The objectively correct answer is B. Not memeing, it simply is. As would be demonstrated when we opened our boxes, and I came out $999,000 wealthier than you. And it'd all have been for the sake of... what? Being correct on paper?
Being very generous to two boxers and assuming that this time, A+B nets more utility/money/whatever, we still have to reckon with the fact that 100 times out of a 101, making the "correct" decision demonstrably meant making the worse decision. And is that actually even making the correct decision? Is that winning? If there were two tribes of equal sizes - the Onebox Tribe and the Twobox Tribe - and all were to get their chance at playing the game (disregarding any implications this might have for the initial hypothetical) the Onebox Tribe is all but guaranteed to quickly amass vast riches the likes of which the sad little Twoboxers could scarcely imagine.
Originally posted by Yud Maybe it's too easy to say that you "ought to" two-box on Newcomb's Problem, that this is the "reasonable" thing to do, so long as the money isn't actually in front of you. Maybe you're just numb to philosophical dilemmas, at this point. What if your daughter had a 90% fatal disease, and box A contained a serum with a 20% chance of curing her, and box B might contain a serum with a 95% chance of curing her? What if there was an asteroid rushing toward Earth, and box A contained an asteroid deflector that worked 10% of the time, and box B might contain an asteroid deflector that worked 100% of the time?
Would you, at that point, find yourself tempted to make an unreasonable choice?
A+Bers would happily choose to the answer most likely to get us killed in the asteroid formulation of this question. This is an undeniable fact. You would win on paper. Oh, you made the reasonable choice. You got us that 10% chance. But how much better is that 10% chance than a 0% chance? How much better is it really, when the alternative was a perfect solution you were all but guaranteed by the reliability of the predictor? With actual life or death stakes, the daunting off-the-paper reality that you're most likely dooming the planet to extinction looms pretty large. Anyone who would begrudge the oneboxer for taking a 99% chance at a guaranteed solution over a 100% chance on a solution that's likely to fail is an idiot. Practically speaking, B is the only reasonable choice.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-11-12 at 8:15 PM UTC in Newcomb's Paradox Thread
Originally posted by mmQ Can you draw me a picture of Omega please? I would like to know what its wings look like or is it flying by other means ?
Artist's rendition of Omega flying off to play another game - or perhaps back to its space-cube spouse, beta. At any rate its means of propulsion are unknown. You're welcome. Glad to help.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-11-11 at 3:51 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-11 at 3:26 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?I don't know why you insist on this bizarre antisemitic Straussian reading of "if someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first", but it's not exactly contradictory to what I said. It's a saying taken from the Talmud which states that self-defense is justified, even preemptively. That is their honor. It is an early codification of one culture's rules surrounding self-defense - their niceties of violence. Perhaps lax rules, by your cultural standards, but rules nonetheless. It does not say "all goyim are trying to kill you therefore all murder of the goyim is justified", simply that if a goy is coming to kill you there's nothing wrong with cutting him down before he draws his sword.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-10 at 7:14 PM UTC in Just wanna drink vodka and make trash angels on my floorThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-07 at 8:05 AM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.Little known fact but Biden's actual last name was "Woolzack" and he lived in a separate house from his daughter.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-10 at 7:37 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 50 years in politics and doesn't have a single accomplishment whatsoever to show for any of it. The literal posterchild for term limits.
Aside from being elected president... I mean... sure it's not much of an achievement these days after Trump cheapened it so, but it's still something.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-11-09 at 11:51 PM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?Kinda feel like Kyle's gonna go down for Rosenbaum. To be clear I'm not 100% sure about this, it is not cut-and-dry obvious, but watching the drone cam footage it does kinda look like Kyle might have maybe possibly... just a little... like... executed him. Rosenbaum goes down pretty quick and it looks like he's on the ground when the last little puff of gun smoke happens.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-04 at 4:07 AM UTC in The Official NIS 2A ThreadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-05 at 10:56 PM UTC in Drunk Freddrinking scotch and imagining some kind of weird alt-history or straight fantasy where faux cowboys and the faux mongol hordes interact. the symbiosis of man and horse transcends geography and culture/religion into music. it's its own thing. the music fits weirdly well with the old west vibe, despite being the old old near far east. not literature obviously. visual/audio medium. cud b neat but i'm a retard.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-11-05 at 10:24 PM UTC in Glory to the king of Kings.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-27 at 8 AM UTC in Kyle Rittenhouse: Am I missing something?Because he shot and killed some people. It's the job of the courts to decide if what he did was legally justified, regardless of whether or not you personally think what he did was justifiable self-defense. This is not complicated. If you want what you think to be the letter of the law, raise an army and become King of Wisconsin or High King of America or some shit. Otherwise fuck off.
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2021-11-05 at 5:09 PM UTC in Glory to the king of Kings.
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2021-11-05 at 6:30 PM UTC in Glory to the king of Kings.
Originally posted by Nile I find dragon ball z just as good as the Bible or game of thrones.
This is real nigga shit tho. I mean... the reality is that DBZ is loosely based on Journey to the West, which is loosely based on some 1400 year old Buddhist nigga's adventures. And the culture that created DBZ was heavily influenced by all kinds of spiritual beliefs - shinto, zen buddhism, daoism, ffuuuuuck. You can catch so many useful hints at Truth from dumb shit people would call you a retard for even thinking about. Some dumb anime where barely clothed 15 year olds fight wizards could contain a nugget of retardedly potent philosophical or spiritual wisdom. Being alive in the 21st century is wild.
Originally posted by Nile Annnnnd there goes all my mystical credibility.
Nah, man. Credentialism is for faggots. This is the new spirituality, fuck tha haterz.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-11-05 at 6:21 PM UTC in Glory to the king of Kings.
Originally posted by Nile I'm pretty disconnected from call it traditional beliefs. Never learned to speak cree (nīhithawīwin) or spent any time around my fam up north.
That said over the last 2 years, I'm sure you guys have noticed lol I've been a drift.
After a bunch of adverse experiences and spooky synchronous omens Ive tuned into some weird esoteric realm. This path should have killed me but I literally pull 777 when shit gets real.
The links to native spirituality is heavy with my connection to eagles and bears.
Then there's weird incorporations from various sources. Catholic, Gnostic, Judaism, Philosophy, Masonic Art, Writings of mystics and philosophers.
It kinda crystallized into this strange outlook and put me in tune with some odd magic.
Numbers, Colours, the flow of traffic, faces, noises.
All stimuli fused into reads. Some creepily accurate.
Then again maybe I'm just like Paul in dune and need to lay off the spice or the sauce or something.
I think I'm kinda in the same boat. Kinda. Synchronicity is a helluva thing. Chaos magic, really. Just incorporate everything and keep what sticks. Or rather, everything is already there, dissolved, and the spirituality that matters just... crystalizes out of solution. A useful idea for contextualizing the human spiritual experience is as likely to come from Christ as it is the Great Spirit, or fucking StarCraft for that matter.
Anyway, be blessed. Nigger.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-10-28 at 7:42 AM UTC in Smartphones are stealing our souls>implying i ever had a soul to steal
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2021-11-05 at 2:45 AM UTC in Bloodbath in VirginiaThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-26 at 1:04 PM UTC in Do circles objectively exist?Yes, circles exist. Perfect circles may not, but the issue there is perfection - not the circle itself. By the same logic a perfect square probably doesn't exist (is perhaps even less likely to exist). But squares exist. Perfection does not.
