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@monarchist sorry been away from this thread. Yep, ideology probably includes religion and all are in a bubble called confirmation bias. Just a general theory and open to tweaking.
Do note that for some transhumanists, this, coupled with empiricism, is a very painful approach, since it invalidates the multiple world interpretation of quantum physics, since other worlds never can be proven empirically, since there by definition, is no causal connection to this world.
So keep that in mind if you debate transhumanists who talk about the "fact" that multiple worlds/universes have been proven.
@monarchist @freepatriot This is true... but many times, this leaves out the questions "beacause", which then brings to light differences in goals, values and method.
Focusing on what works I think is one of the major contributions of the US to philosophy in the 19:th century, pragmatism.
@monarchist @freepatriot I don't know if I afree that pragmatism means acceptance of the situation as is. For me, it shifts the focus from idle speculation, and theoretical castles in the air, to results. And if you want to change your situation, a focus on specific action and results is absolutely essential.
Ahh... that is due to my lack of english skills. I never associated the word pragmatism with compromise. Compromise in todays politics is the little death that leads to hell. This we can easily see by looking at how europe and especially sweden "compromise" around immigration policies.
The reason I emphasize hard realism: look at what actual changes are made to physical reality, not what we can sell to people politically or is likely to happen.
Aim for a real goal, not a compromise, in other words.
My original reference to pragmaticism was to the american school of philosophy. And there is, in fact, a pragmatist kind of ethics, although it is disputed. Some argue (and I do think they have a point) that pragmatist ethics is purely descriptive and not normative.
That's why politicians fear education and are doing their best to dismantle schools. The more educated, the more critical thinking and the more confident, the more difficult to control.
Yes, the herd today is a problem, but the politicians and the system today is designed to make people herd-like, and to prevent them from growing into adult human beings.
Let me add one of my favourite Nietzsche quotes from Human, all too human, part 2, chapter 180:
"TEACHERS IN THE AGE OF BOOKS.—Now that self-education and mutual education are becoming more widespread, the teacher in his usual form must become almost unnecessary. Friends eager to learn, who wish to master some branch of knowledge together, find in our age of books a shorter and more natural way than “school” and “teachers.”
"Nihilism — which declines to accept the human projection of a shared space of universal, absolute, and objective forms of truths, values, and communications — is an extreme form of realism that accepts human inequality and therefore, understands relativism and esotericism in our understanding."
When I say "as a student of English," I mean lifelong. I also spent a fair amount of time in the philosophy department and was fortunate to have some great instructors.
@monarchist @freepatriot We must pray for this! I mean logically, society cannot continue on its current path for much longer, because that will eventually spell the end of civilization.
@monarchist @freepatriot For me it was a mixed bag. Some teachers were excellent and I still think about them from time to time, others were garbage. The swedish educational system had already begun to decline when I went to university. But I have a feeling it was only the beginning of the decline. Today I read in the newspaper that student no longer read the course material because they think it is too difficult to handle a book with 500 pages.
@monarchist @freepatriot This I think is a telling picture of how worthless degrees are today.
I have 2 out of 5 in my company who do not have degress, yet are highly skilled technologists! If you know how do interview, and if you have a good network, you don't have to rely on the shortcut of "degree" in resumes.
@monarchist @freepatriot for offspring. I would not want them to become machine parts.
On the other hand, I'm already immortal at the systems level, so perhaps this philosophical realization is also a contributing factor to short circuiting the biological drive for offspring?
Well, reproduction is only a problem if you place your purpose in life in external things, and if you build your society on an ever increasing population, that will be ever increasingly in debt.
The ones born, will be nothing more than cogs in the machine, to feed and clothe the previous generation.
I find that a dehumanizing way to think about reproduction and the purpose of reproduction.
At the end of the day, I am probably too "libertarian"
@monarchist @freepatriot I often think that perhaps the solution to the fermi paradox is that as civilizations progress, they realize this truth and slowly fade out of existence.
@monarchist @freepatriot Yes! It is a wonderful and sad proof of how swedish society (and perhaps our civilization) are deteriorating.
When no one will be able to read, science will implode and we'll be back in the dark ages.
But first there will be a slow decline, things starting to stop working, scientific progress slowing down, and the decline will then increase, until some kind of collapsing event.
My guess is that the answer is the same to the civilization question: over time, the labor force takes over and destroys the civilization.
Family is more than reproduction, but happy people tend to have families if they can. Not everyone can, but in general, a happy population reproduces itself.
Once the high taxes and ghettos kick in? Many die out. It is a rejection of life itself!
Harriet Tubman probably didn’t exist. I don’t mean the person. There was a Harriet Tubman, and she was a former slave – but she was also likely mentally handicapped from being hit on the head with a weight when she was 12. No, I’m not talking about whether a person existed. I’m talking about the entire mythos surrounding her supposed life; her “hagiography” in the Leftie cultural slop milieu that gets forced down the throats of every schoolchild starting in elementary grades.
There are, quite literally, no primary sources for her fabled exploits. Not a single one.
No historian can corroborate any of her supposed quotes, or any stories from her life. Which seems… odd, right? Considering how many she supposedly helped to free? Surely there’d be a record of someone, somewhere, whom she helped.
But there’s not. Why?
Turns out it all comes from one guy, quite literally an #anti-White #journalist who was named #EarlCohen. He wrote a couple books in the 1940’s – in which he only cites his earlier articles. It’s an #absurd #fiction that has been pushed on, quite literally, schoolchildren – to get them to #hate their own #people and #history.
If they say it’s true, it isn’t. And it really doesn’t take much to expose their lies. It doesn’t matter what the supposed historical event was, if they said it happened, it probably didn’t, and at the very least, it didn’t happen in the way, or to the extent, they falsely claim it did.
If Clown World says it’s true, it is definitely fake and quite possibly gay. Forget the obvious frauds of The Ghost of Kiev, global warming, and Anne Frank, now the fake history of Harriet Tubman has been conclusively exposed to be completely fraudul…
>Did we just psyop the Dems into demanding the release of the Epstein files? MAGA cope is the strongest stuff around. The strongest stuff. Just the best.
But people get tired of the bullshit, and it's not always the people you're paying attention to. MAGA had the same cope over the trade wars, about all the 4d chess victories that Trump gained by acting insane and abruptly ripping up deals that he himself had signed during his first term. But while that happened, shipping stopped, US bonds got absolutely destroyed, countries did the math and chose China over the US, and the US even lost the Japanese.
This cope is like something a scammer tells himself after he cheats a customer. You cheated that customer, but other other people observed it, and the customer can tell people about it, and life actually goes on and you have future interactions including with that same customer which will now not go as well for you. You gained some hard currency while losing other social currencies that you were not aware that you were spending.
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@zephyrotv Nope, I hang out watching The Duran, Alexander Mercouris, Alex Cristoforu, Romanian TVee, and Noor Jasmine. For fun I watch police body cam videos.
Wonder what made him snap? Maybe losing his position at the White House felt like a betrayal to him? He was camping out on Trump's sofa for a long time after all....
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You know how ever since 2016 we have been waiting for the BIG ONE to go off?
This is the BIG ONE.
Wrapped up in this little spat between Trump and Elon are a number of issues, like reforming the H1B atrocity, but the Epstein Files thing is the biggie.
Do you see what is about to happen? (I think)
Elon is going to whip this into a frenzy and the LEFT, especially the media, are going to froth with demands to release the Epstein files!
Sink Trump, prune the kleptocracy of those unfortunately on the list too, and get back to business as usual. The temptation for such an outcome will be too great to resist.
Everyone on the lists will scream in protest, as will their agents, spouses, maids, etc., but everyone else who just wants Trump out of power will shout themselves hoarse.
I think Elon just flicked the first domino in a large cascade.
This public Donald/Elon spat is too perfectly timed to be entirely genuine.
I wonder if this was planned step-by-step? 1) Trump wants to remove EV subsidies 2) Elon disses the BeauteousBill 3) Trump says Elon is nutz 4) Elon insinuates that Trump's in the EpsteinFiles
We all knew how 'close' Epstein allowed Trump to get. Is anyone surprised? Musk is like a bitter 1st wife dishing the dirt. Pathetic but hardly unknown. A bit like the BBC protecting Savile. At first.
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QG : Benjamin Netanyahu est totalement insensible aux alertes de ses alliés, aux menaces de sanctions. Que cherche-t-il ?
Il faut souligner à quel point la situation est terrible. Il suffit de voir ces gens déplacés une dizaine de fois: les conséquences humaines sont incalculables. Et pourtant, il n’y a pas de plan israélien clair. La presse israélienne elle-même le dit : on a l’impression que Netanyahou mène cette guerre parce qu’il ne peut pas l’arrêter. S’il l’interrompt, il devra faire face à une commission d’enquête sur ce qui s’est passé le 7 octobre, sur la manière dont il a géré la crise, et il risquerait de faire éclater sa coalition. Alors il poursuit cette guerre, qui dépasse largement Gaza : elle s’étend à la Cisjordanie, au Liban, en Syrie, au Yémen. Ce que beaucoup ne réalisent pas, c’est que c’est désormais la guerre la plus longue de l’histoire d’Israël — plus longue encore que celle de 1948-1949 qui a vu la naissance de l’État d’Israël. On est pris dans un engrenage, sans voir de finalité.
QG : Quelles issues possibles à cet engrenage infernal pour la population palestinienne ?
Lors du cessez-le-feu de janvier dernier, des centaines de milliers de Palestiniens sont retournés chez eux — chez eux, c’est-à-dire dans des maisons détruites. Cela montre un attachement profond à la terre, et une conscience que s’ils partent, ils ne reviendront jamais. À l’inverse, les Israéliens qui ont fui le nord du pays ont mis des mois, une fois les combats terminés, à revenir — et seulement la moitié d’entre eux sont rentrés. Il y a quelque chose de très particulier dans ce lien des Palestiniens à leur terre. Et pourtant, au sens propre, on ne peut pas y vivre : il n’y a plus de nourriture. Israël mise sur ce blocus pour forcer les gens à partir. Mais partir où ? L’Égypte reste extrêmement ferme malgré les pressions américaines, tout comme la Jordanie. Installer 500.000 Palestiniens dans le Sinaï serait un facteur majeur de déstabilisation — et, de toute façon, il n’y a pas les moyens logistiques pour le faire. En Jordanie, où la majorité de la population est déjà d’origine palestinienne, ce serait une menace directe pour la stabilité du régime et du trône. On peine à voir quelle issue est envisageable. Selon les organisations internationales, des milliers d’enfants risquent de mourir de faim dans les jours à venir. La situation est insupportable et elle varie selon les zones, selon les villes. L’offensive principale se concentre pour l’instant dans le nord de Gaza, une zone qu’Israël veut annexer. Tous les témoignages des humanitaires sont clairs : ils n’ont jamais vu une situation pareille. On parle, au sens propre, d’un camp de concentration — les gens sont enfermés, sans possibilité de sortir, avec en plus une volonté d’extermination. Cette dernière, aussi délibérée, n’existait pas dans les autres expériences historiques de camps, comme celle menée par les Britanniques en Afrique australe. À l’exception évidemment de l’Allemagne nazie.
QG : Quelles sont les responsabilités de l’Europe dans ce massacre à Gaza ? Le fléchissement dans le soutien à Israël, que l’on ressent publiquement, n’intervient-il pas trop tard ?
Le problème, c’est qu’on en est à 18 mois de soutien quasi inconditionnel de la France et des pays européens à la politique d’extermination menée à Gaza. Il faut le dire clairement : cette politique n’aurait pas été possible sans cet aval. Si la France et l’Europe avaient pris des mesures concrètes contre Israël, cela ne se serait sans doute pas produit. Netanyahou en a conscience. La parole de la France continue d’avoir un certain poids — même si, autrefois, elle jouait un rôle d’avant-garde en Europe. Mais le fait que la France, comme d’autres pays européens, bascule vers une critique plus radicale de la politique israélienne inquiète le gouvernement de Netanyahou. La décision de l’Union Européenne de réévaluer l’accord d’association avec Israël est un signal, même si l’on sait que cet accord ne peut être annulé qu’avec l’unanimité des 27 États membres. Cela laisse entrevoir, malgré tout, la possibilité de sanctions. On entend souvent dire qu’Israël ne cède pas aux pressions, mais la vérité, c’est qu’il n’y en a pas. Il faut une vraie pression — une pression qui vient aussi de nos sociétés. La guerre du Vietnam a été arrêtée aux États-Unis quand la population s’est massivement opposée. La guerre d’Algérie a été gagnée en France quand en 1961, le FLN avait perdu militairement. Emmanuel Macron n’a pris aucune sanction envers Israël, refuse toujours de reconnaître un Etat palestinien et renvoie aux historiens le soin de parler de « génocide ». La France a également livré du matériel militaire à Israël, à plusieurs reprises depuis la réplique au 7 octobre octobre 2023
QG : La critique de la politique israélienne est-elle en train d’être acceptée dans les médias ou par nos politiques ?
Je rappelle à nouveau que depuis 18 mois, le soutien à Israël reste très fort, mais aussi que la répression contre le mouvement de solidarité avec les Palestiniens se poursuit — notamment à travers des accusations d’apologie du terrorisme. En France, comparé au Royaume-Uni, les manifestations ont été relativement limitées, en grande partie parce que les gens ont peur, et en particulier les Français musulmans. J’ai rencontré beaucoup de Français musulmans qui me disent : « Ce que vous dites, nous, on ne peut pas le dire. » Ils ne risquent pas forcément de perdre leur nationalité, mais ils peuvent perdre leur emploi — qu’ils soient musulmans ou non — ou être mis à l’écart au sein de leur environnement social ou professionnel. Il y a une peur très présente, encore aujourd’hui. En revanche, on observe un basculement dans l’opinion. Les images d’enfants, de famine, de bombardements — tout cela a un impact. Je me réjouis de voir que certaines personnes changent de position, qu’elles découvrent, 18 mois après, qu’il y a un génocide en cours ou, au minimum, des massacres à grande échelle. Mais, en même temps, elles ne vont pas toujours jusqu’au bout de leur réflexion ou de leur engagement.
QG : Peut-on aujourd’hui militer pour une « solution à deux Etats » ou celle-ci a-t-elle perdu toute réalité?
Aujourd’hui, la priorité est d’arrêter le génocide et de stopper l’occupation en frappant toutes ces colonies. Il faut être très clair : on ne peut pas accepter la poursuite de la colonisation — que la Cour International de Justice a jugée totalement illégale. Et cela nécessite des sanctions, non seulement en réponse à la guerre à Gaza, mais aussi face à l’extension continue des colonies en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est. Cela dit, la solution à un État n’est pas non plus une perspective réaliste à échéance humaine. Les combats prioritaires aujourd’hui, au-delà de l’occupation et de la colonisation, sont ceux pour l’égalité. Sur le territoire de la Palestine, 7,5 millions de Juifs et 7,5 millions de Palestiniens vivent ensemble. La revendication fondamentale, c’est l’égalité de traitement pour tous. D’ailleurs, Amnesty International a qualifié la situation d’apartheid, ce qui souligne bien l’urgence de cette exigence. Mais à ce stade, se focaliser sur une solution politique en termes étatiques semble éloigné des enjeux immédiats. Et puis, je l’ai toujours dit : c’est aux Palestiniens et aux Israéliens de décider de leur avenir.
QG : Que penser du tabou qui règne autour du mot « génocide », chargé de sens pour Israël notamment ?
Il est très difficile de définir un génocide mais on peut tout à fait en discuter. Il y a tout de même la Cour Internationale de Justice, présidée par une juge américaine, qui a reconnu qu’il existait un risque plausible de génocide. Pourtant, dès qu’on prononce ce mot, cela déclenche un tollé. Comme s’il était inconcevable que des Juifs, ayant subi un génocide, puissent en commettre un. Par ailleurs, je remets en cause l’idée selon laquelle Israël serait l’héritier des Juifs, y compris de ceux qui ont été tués pendant la Shoah. Par exemple, le Rwanda, qui a été victime d’un génocide, mène aujourd’hui des politiques particulièrement violentes au Congo. Il n’existe aucune loi historique selon laquelle avoir été opprimé empêcherait d’être un oppresseur. L’histoire démontre plutôt l’inverse. L’historien israélien Tom Segev rappelait qu’on pouvait tirer deux leçons de l’histoire du génocide des Juifs : 1) considérer que ce que l’on a subi est tellement exceptionnel que quoi qu’on fasse, on est pardonné ; 2) considérer que ce que l’on a subi est tellement exceptionnel qu’il ne faut en aucun cas que cela se reproduise. Bien sûr, cela ne se reproduit jamais de manière identique. D’une certaine manière, on ne peut pas comparer les génocides arménien, tutsi ou juif. Mais on peut les définir. Il existe une définition précise du génocide. Pourtant, on ne verra jamais à la radio ou à la télévision un débat posant la question : “Est-ce que ce qui se passe à Gaza remplit les critères du génocide ?” Certains disent même : “L’armée israélienne n’a tué que 50.000 personnes, donc ce n’est pas un génocide.” Mais c’est une logique que l’on retrouve aussi chez une partie des négationnistes d’extrême droite qui affirmaient : “Il y a encore des millions de Juifs dans le monde, donc il n’y a pas eu de génocide.” Selon l’ONU, plus de 15.000 enfants ont été tués à Gaza, 497.000 personnes sont confrontés à la famine. Entre le 18 mars et le 9 avril 2025, 36 frappes israéliennes ont fait des victimes, qui étaient uniquement des femmes et des enfants
QG : Les mandats d’arrêts émis par la Cour Pénale Internationale à l’égard de Benjamin Netanyahu et Yoav Gallant (ancien ministre de la défense) ont été reçus avec beaucoup de prudence en Occident, si ce n’est avec virulence. Assiste-t-on à la fin du droit international ?
Oui, ce qui se joue avec la Cour Pénale Internationale (CPI) est très important, parce que ce qui se passe à Gaza dépasse de loin cette seule situation. Il s’agit en réalité de l’avenir du droit international — et c’est, à mes yeux, une question fondamentale. Ce qui est en train de mourir à Gaza, c’est justement ce droit international. On a souvent comparé la situation en Ukraine à celle de la Palestine, et la différence de traitement est flagrante. On a vu la frilosité avec laquelle la France a traité la question des mandats émis par la CPI, ainsi que les mensonges d’Emmanuel Macron, qui affirme : “On n’est pas sûr de pouvoir arrêter Benjamin Netanyahou, s’il le faut”. Ce discours a pourtant été démenti par de nombreux juristes. Plus largement, c’est tout le cadre international qui est aujourd’hui remis en cause. Les Nations unies ne sont plus respectées, et l’ordre international né de la Seconde Guerre mondiale est en train de s’effondrer. La seule chose qui pourrait le refonder, c’est précisément le droit international. Mais ce que promeuvent aujourd’hui Trump et Netanyahou est un ordre mondial gouverné par la force. Un système dans lequel on négocie peut-être avec moins d’hypocrisie qu’en Europe, mais où chaque État agit selon ses intérêts, sans cadre contraignant. Par ailleurs, il y a eu récemment une campagne — très peu relayée en France — contre la CPI et son procureur, Karim Khan, qui a reçu des menaces, y compris contre sa famille. Et cela, personne n’en parle, ce qui est tout de même extraordinaire. Plus généralement, le droit international est aujourd’hui non seulement rejeté sur le plan politique, mais aussi très mal compris. Et les médias qui en parlent le font souvent avec une ignorance préoccupante.
QG : Israël est-il finalement encore soumis au droit international ?
Non, cela fait longtemps qu’Israël est au-dessus du droit international. Marx disait : “Un peuple qui en opprime un autre ne saurait être libre.” On voit bien, en Israël, que la poursuite de l’occupation mène à une érosion progressive des aspects démocratiques de l’État. Il suffit d’imaginer que la France ait gagné la guerre d’Algérie et continue, encore aujourd’hui, à occuper l’Algérie, 60 ans plus tard. Elle ne serait plus une démocratie. Il y a aussi un problème dans la manière dont les pays occidentaux concentrent toutes les critiques sur Benjamin Netanyahou, sans reconnaître qu’en réalité, près de 80 % de la population juive israélienne soutient la politique de ce gouvernement — pas forcément tout ce qu’il fait, car Netanyahou est un politicien manipulateur et menteur, mais ils adhèrent à sa politique d’extermination à Gaza. Même ceux qui demandent l’arrêt des bombardements le font avant tout pour obtenir la libération des otages, et non en raison des massacres subis par les Palestiniens. Il faut être clair : si Netanyahou tombe demain, la politique ne changera pas. Il ne faut pas laisser croire aux gens que cette politique va évoluer dans la situation actuelle puisqu’elle fait consensus. Il faut rappeler que toutes les décisions de la Cour suprême israélienne concernant les Palestiniens ont été prises en faveur du droit d’Israël à coloniser leurs territoires. Cette cour peut être garante des libertés, mais uniquement pour les citoyens juifs. Il ne faut pas se faire d’illusions, ni réduire la responsabilité à la seule personne de Netanyahou. Il n’est pas le seul responsable.
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Alain Gresh est directeur des journaux Orient XXI et Afrique XXI et a été rédacteur en chef au Monde Diplomatique pendant près de 10 ans. Il est un expert du Proche-Orient et de la situation israélo-palestinienne. Il également publié De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom ? (Les Liens qui libèrent, 2010), Palestine 47, un partage avorté, avec Dominique Vidal (Éditions Complexe, 1994) ou L’Islam, la République et le Monde (Fayard, 2004)
“Is it moral to punish someone for a crime they committed if free will isn’t physically possible in a deterministic universe” is the stupidest fucking question I’ve ever heard.
Everyone can see how absurd this question is, right? It’s not just me who can see it?
No idea if the spat between Trump and Musk is real or kayfabe. If it's a scam, then Trump is trying to distract us from something, and Musk is likely trying to salvage his stock prices.
Interesting that Musk would bring up the Epstein files. Last time those were in the news a GOP kid and some Trump supporters got killed.
Regardless, they are both manipulative assholes, and I've sworn off being manipulated by assholes. Off to game...
😡😡😡😡 How are we supposed to heal and fix our country when every damn day the same creatures are out there causing more and more idiotic rules and problems!!!! We have years of crimes they have committed to get through and yet they are still free to create more havoc! Our food keeps getting sicker, farmland seized for solar or housing, gas prices hiked, and budgets out of wack for illegals still.
"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-- H.L.Mencken
Thank you, I will be here all week - don't forget to tip your waitress!
not news, flight logs of his jet include trump, just not to the island.
we'll see if that holds true, but at this point that's the only reference to trump that's been mentioned. and that's from the leftists that hate him. if he was known to go to the island they would have blasted that everywhere.
I have finally finished compiling documents to turn over to investigators. It ended up being several gigabites and over 200k pages. I pitty the poor sap that has to go through them. It's quite boring and i nearly lost my mind assembling them.
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Meanwhile on Xitter, Elon Musk, who just exited the US Government last week(?) is now lettin' loose on ol' Trump. The entertainment level exceeds promises. Popcorn sales skyrocketing. x.com/elonmusk/status/19307038…
>walking past yard >sign that says “we stand for the flag and kneel for the cross “ >look to the right another few feet >wooden cross >painted with the American flag
Owning and playing your own media files is obviously #piracy. Private citizens are not allowed to posses media. You are supposed to rent everything for a monthly rate.
"dangerous or harmful" must be corporate speak for risk to their profits, not long ago I saw someone's video on building a Pi-hole network adblocker get the same kind of strike.
Unfortunately you’re not YouTube’s customer, you’re the operating overhead. They’d turn you off in a heartbeat if only people would allow them to inject ads directly into their eyeholes.
one could feasibly call this dangerous/harmful for *YouTube* in that it creates competition for YouTube! It allows people to happily spend time watching video outside of YouTube! Inexcusable!
been there, done that. You are going to suffer from that as they are going to degrade your account and stop playing your videos out. At least that is what has happened to me. Besides a 'psychological test' to make sure I am aligned with 'their values'.
oh my Lord. This again, this squeezing of people who show how you can take control over your own hardware and software. It should be encouraged for people to be curious, try and discover... Not lock you in and keep you away from experimenting on your own.
Oh, copyright which isn't used to train LLMs is still important to Google, although this have nothing to do with it? Damn. I love our technofascist dystopia.
YouTube is absolutely going to kill that goose to see how it was making all those golden eggs. I've pretty much abandoned watching YouTube except for a few synthesizer nerds and SciShow.
It's one thing to be (unjustly) forced to hack a device you own to run the software you want on it, but the raspberry pi has NO DIGITAL LOCKS!
And LibreElec contains completely FOSS software with no copyrighted media.
It's quite literally the same as if YouTube were copyright claiming a Linux installation tutorial because it is possible to pirate movies on Linux (and on Windows, and macOS, etc...)
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Do note that for some transhumanists, this, coupled with empiricism, is a very painful approach, since it invalidates the multiple world interpretation of quantum physics, since other worlds never can be proven empirically, since there by definition, is no causal connection to this world.
So keep that in mind if you debate transhumanists who talk about the "fact" that multiple worlds/universes have been proven.
h4890
Unknown parent • • •@monarchist @freepatriot This is true... but many times, this leaves out the questions "beacause", which then brings to light differences in goals, values and method.
Focusing on what works I think is one of the major contributions of the US to philosophy in the 19:th century, pragmatism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmati…
philosophical tradition
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in reply to David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊 • • •I tend to think of ideology as anything other than pure adaptation.
It all starts with the words "we should" instead of "this works."
It can happen on a micro-scale too, like at a workplace. We should do this technology, not let's focus on what works.
@h4890 @freepatriot
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •The pioneer spirit valued realism
Pragmatism often means too much acceptance of the situationa s it is.
Realism means enforcing the reality principle even when unpopular.
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in reply to h4890 • • •We agree, but that is consequentialism, and only of the realist variety (there is a social variety as well that came _after_ the original, of course).
Generally in the vernacular "pragmatism" means compromise.
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Ahh... that is due to my lack of english skills. I never associated the word pragmatism with compromise. Compromise in todays politics is the little death that leads to hell. This we can easily see by looking at how europe and especially sweden "compromise" around immigration policies.
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •Lots of words have been ruined by democracy.
The reason I emphasize hard realism: look at what actual changes are made to physical reality, not what we can sell to people politically or is likely to happen.
Aim for a real goal, not a compromise, in other words.
h4890
Unknown parent • • •@monarchist @freepatriot leftist gender deniers and the moslem immigrants. That will surely be a fireworks show to remember!
If the politicians control your language, they control you and your thoughts. This is important to remember.
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Amen!
Note that modern socialism loves to weaponize language and villify people who use the wrong words.
In europe the left are introducing neutral gender words to mask the truth that only male and female exists.
Negro, just saying the word, can get you fines and prison.
Lately any criticism of islam can land you in prison too.
I'm just waiting for the clash between the
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •And that's Sapir-Whorf in a nutshell.
Our real problem is not politicians, but the herd.
The herd likes easy answers.
Those are always lies!
h4890
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My original reference to pragmaticism was to the american school of philosophy. And there is, in fact, a pragmatist kind of ethics, although it is disputed. Some argue (and I do think they have a point) that pragmatist ethics is purely descriptive and not normative.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmati… .
Ethical theory which postulates that societal progress can inform standards of moral behavior
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That's why politicians fear education and are doing their best to dismantle schools. The more educated, the more critical thinking and the more confident, the more difficult to control.
Yes, the herd today is a problem, but the politicians and the system today is designed to make people herd-like, and to prevent them from growing into adult human beings.
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •As you probably know, I avoid Wikipedia and other Google projects, but I appreciate the clarification.
As a student of English, I suggest we all consider saying "realist consequentialism" because anything else will be repurposed.
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •Education's benefits map to the bell curve.
Politicians are using it as an anti-poverty program.
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •In general, I think politicians get blamed for a lot
But the motherfucker is the herd
People want illusions
This never worked for me however
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And by doing that, they are diluting it, leading to worse results for everyone.
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It's fun how our backgrounds color our language and perception. I studied philosophy at university and technology.
But as always... let me follow that up with another Nietzsche quote:
"There are no facts, just interpretations of facts".
h4890
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Let me add one of my favourite Nietzsche quotes from Human, all too human, part 2, chapter 180:
"TEACHERS IN THE AGE OF BOOKS.—Now that self-education and mutual education
are becoming more widespread, the teacher in his usual form must become
almost unnecessary. Friends eager to learn, who wish to master some branch
of knowledge together, find in our age of books a shorter and more natural
way than “school” and “teachers.”
h4890
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How Nietzsche would cry today, seeing how far it was possible for mankind to sink.
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in reply to h4890 • • •Incorporated into writings about Nihilism:
"Nihilism — which declines to accept the human projection of a shared space of universal, absolute, and objective forms of truths, values, and communications — is an extreme form of realism that accepts human inequality and therefore, understands relativism and esotericism in our understanding."
amerika.org/politics/misunders…
When I say "as a student of English," I mean lifelong. I also spent a fair amount of time in the philosophy department and was fortunate to have some great instructors.
Misunderstanding Nihilism
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in reply to monarchist • • •@monarchist @freepatriot This I think is a telling picture of how worthless degrees are today.
I have 2 out of 5 in my company who do not have degress, yet are highly skilled technologists! If you know how do interview, and if you have a good network, you don't have to rely on the shortcut of "degree" in resumes.
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Ahh, got it! Where do you draw the line between nihilism and relativism, vs personal subjective values?
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •Nihilism is consistent with relativism, but avoids the human projection which tends to assert relative measurements as "objective."
To my mind, "objective" and "subjective" are false categories since there is so much overlap.
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •We in the first world are headed for a collision with reality.
Our people are not reproducing enough. No one seems very happy.
And we are in debt and broke because of infrastructure commitment.
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Unknown parent • • •@monarchist @freepatriot for offspring. I would not want them to become machine parts.
On the other hand, I'm already immortal at the systems level, so perhaps this philosophical realization is also a contributing factor to short circuiting the biological drive for offspring?
h4890
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Well, reproduction is only a problem if you place your purpose in life in external things, and if you build your society on an ever increasing population, that will be ever increasingly in debt.
The ones born, will be nothing more than cogs in the machine, to feed and clothe the previous generation.
I find that a dehumanizing way to think about reproduction and the purpose of reproduction.
At the end of the day, I am probably too "libertarian"
h4890
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So nihilism, typically is no values, relativism, is your own subjective values, which in a way can be seen as no objective values.
It seems to me that depending on definitions nihilism can encompass relativism, or relativism can encompass nihilism.
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in reply to monarchist • • •@monarchist @freepatriot Yes! It is a wonderful and sad proof of how swedish society (and perhaps our civilization) are deteriorating.
When no one will be able to read, science will implode and we'll be back in the dark ages.
But first there will be a slow decline, things starting to stop working, scientific progress slowing down, and the decline will then increase, until some kind of collapsing event.
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •My guess is that the answer is the same to the civilization question: over time, the labor force takes over and destroys the civilization.
Family is more than reproduction, but happy people tend to have families if they can. Not everyone can, but in general, a happy population reproduces itself.
Once the high taxes and ghettos kick in? Many die out. It is a rejection of life itself!
monarchist
in reply to h4890 • • •Nihilists decline to accept the social assertion that absolute, universal, and objective forms of truth, values, and communications exist.
It includes a recognition of relativism, but goes beyond that to look at how we know what we know.
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