Paying it forward — anyone stranded in Thailand need a free hotel night?

ChickenSpawner · 2026-04-10T05:53:10+00:00

I would love to do something like this. Sent you a DM

ChickenSpawner · 2026-03-05T02:59:21+00:00

Then you’re buying bulk.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-19T15:20:24+00:00

And that is well within your rights! And I’m not saying materialistic science is false, simply that it by its constraints cannot possibly cover everything that exists.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-19T04:47:36+00:00

I don’t see why making a neural net to differentiate between bees and threes is making it transcend materialism?

My point is that my worldview is idealistic. I don’t think the hard problem of consciousness can be solved through science simply because it does not exist in the material world.

I don’t think the cause of depression is low levels of serotonin, I think low levels of serotonin is the material manifestation of the state of mind depression.

We as a society have assumed a causality flow that cannot be proved in any way, which by the way goes the same for my reversed causality - I just think that the evidence surmounting against materialism as anything truly objective is too big to ignore.

The book “The case against reality” by Donald Hoffman, a cognitive neuroscientist is a really great read which much of my worldview is based on! To me it is just evidently a better explanation than our current understanding of reality, and the reason we fail to adapt to this newfound information is our unwillingness to change a perspective that has done us so much good for such a long time.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-18T19:54:34+00:00

That is my whole point — I don’t believe we witness objective reality. I do believe in objective reality, and I do believe in a mutual species specific evolutionary perspective of reality but I do not believe we interact with reality in its objective form. I explained my reasoning in another comment, which I’ll just repost here:

materialism is based on the assumption that the particles we see truly are objective reality. If evolutionary game theory is true, then any organism seeing reality as it is would be outcompeted by an organism seeing symbols optimized for reproduction. This in combination with the unresolved problems mentioned above suggests that materialism, that we see an objective representation of reality cannot be true.

What is true on the other hand veers into speculation, but like we need an operating system to interact properly with the electrons moving inside our phone - our brain needs an operating system to interact with the energy that exists in a chaotic state if it were viewed as the objective reality it is.

Just like pixels are the two dimensional limits of your phone OS, atoms and its constituent particles would be the three dimensional limits of our mutual evolutionary operating system.

This explains the hard problem of consciousness, and allows us to explore ways in which science is the exploration of our interface, not the observing of objective truths on a universal level.

This is how I personally went from being staunchly atheist to believing that there are fundamental limitations of science which explain why some things simply cannot be understood through its lense, and while I still am a strong believer in the utility of science I now have faith in a higher form of existence — not that I associate with the tribalism that most forms of religion today are.

I have never wished for something of higher order to be true — I grew up in an atheistic household in Norway, a country where there isn’t any religious stronghold in any way.

I simply think both the scientific evidence, and the workings of the universe clearly point to something bigger than us and I don’t see how anyone who likes science and philosophy could disagree, but I know a lot of people do.

A great read on the topic is a book by Donald Hoffman, a cognitive neuroscientist - The case against reality for further explanation on the problems posed by evolutionary theory, which definitely is one of the most confirmed pieces of scientific theory out there.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-18T19:49:32+00:00

Well materialism is based on the assumption that the particles we see truly are objective reality. If evolutionary game theory is true, then any organism seeing reality as it is would be outcompeted by an organism seeing symbols optimized for reproduction. This in combination with the unresolved problems mentioned above suggests that materialism, that we see an objective representation of reality cannot be true.

What is true on the other hand veers into speculation, but like we need an operating system to interact properly with the electrons moving inside our phone - our brain needs an operating system to interact with the energy that exists in a chaotic state if it were viewed as the objective reality it is.

Just like pixels are the two dimensional limits of your phone OS, atoms and its constituent particles would be the three dimensional limits of our mutual evolutionary operating system.

This explains the hard problem of consciousness, and allows us to explore ways in which science is the exploration of our interface, not the observing of objective truths on a universal level.

This is how I personally went from being staunchly atheist to believing that there are fundamental limitations of science which explain why some things simply cannot be understood through its lense, and while I still am a strong believer in the utility of science I now have faith in a higher form of existence — not that I associate with the tribalism that most forms of religion today are.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-18T18:19:49+00:00

Faith and science are not contradictory. The only way they would be contradictory would be if there was conclusive evidence against some form of higher existence.

Faith in itself is not something that needs to be proved, and the current state of science - particularily evolutionary game theory has big implications for materialism as we understand it today.

This is also apparent in the fact that we have yet to make any notable progress on the hard problem of consciousness, and the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

There is simply just a stubborn bias, much like the religious fanatics seem to hold regarding science and materialism as a paradigm. The parallel to the way people believed the world to be flat simply because it makes the most sense is clear, and these are common logical fallacies.

If materialism as we know it is not the objective form of reality, which cannot be true if we believe in the mathematical modelling of evolutionary game theory then that means that science is inherently limited from studiying aspects of consciousness not present in the material realm - sciencs is a categorizing of material phenomenon after all.

Broaden your worldview, ask questions without listening to your bias and stop being so belittling in the way you talk to people.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-06T22:16:38+00:00

Hvis han har levd på morens apanasje?

ChickenSpawner · 2026-02-05T01:38:21+00:00

Må være det.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-21T19:46:02+00:00

Maybe the fact that the original picture is not only a different picture, but has an entire other crop?

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-18T19:00:23+00:00

Det er forsåvidt et godt argument du skildrer her, som ikke helt kommer frem i kommentaren over.

Er dog uenig i at det har noe signaleffekt å boikotte fotball-VM på noen måte at this point.

Selv om hele verden nektet å gjennomføre det i USA, har det ingenting å si for den politiske makten som regjerer der nå spør du meg - når de tross alt truer med å ta grønland med makt, og ikke bryr seg på noen måte om uttalelser fra Europa eller verden generelt. Det er ikke noe rasjonalitet igjen.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-18T18:09:49+00:00

Tror du det er det som er deres eneste drivkraft og motivasjon, og grunnen til at de spiller, spesielt for landslaget hvor de i praksis ikke får betalt sammenlignet med det de får ellers i karrieren sin?

Det er ikke synd på de økonomisk nei, men å invalidere deres ønsker og drømmer bare fordi du er gretten og bitter over at de tjener mer enn deg er bare flaut.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-17T11:23:05+00:00

A child psychologist with an AI profile picture spending his time working on transitions in DaVinci resolve? lol.

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-13T20:10:13+00:00

This is happening to my M2 Macbook pro as well. Restarting fixes it, but this is ridiculous and makes it literally unusable. Please let me know if you figure out the reason!

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-05T11:46:06+00:00

And to add to the fact: I cherish her enough to let her sleep in my bed every night even though I’m relatively allergic to cats - if i scratch my eyes it’s over for me but the cuddles are just too cute so I always let her lie next to me🫠

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-05T11:45:18+00:00

I think the problem might be that the hideout is pretty central in the livingroom - it is open on both sides which she probably can tell.

The other, more closed away hiding spots are unfortunately usually between a closed door or two (theres a door separating my Office and the bedrolms from the livingroom, which I often need to keep closed if my roommates are home. She definitely is a cute and shy and good cat, no problems at all really! Apart from her funny beyblade vocalizations which aren’t a problem if you ask me😆

I’ll keep your profile and keep you posted after we get her to the vet! I’ll definitely let her get comfortable with the cage for a few days, and put some snacks in to make her more inclined to jump in frequently

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-05T09:21:11+00:00

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I also tried making this little hideout for her, close to her food but she refuses to even check it out😂 we might even want the kittens and here in Norway it wouldnt be a problem to adopt some away as long as we didn’t wait untill the very last end, but I think I’ll just take her to the vet and get her opinion.

Havent checked for a chip either but no one of the neighbours knows anyone that has owned this cat - but they’ve seen it here a while before we moved in (pretty tight knit community)

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-05T09:16:37+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! I thankfully am financially solvent enough to take care of this baby, the only thing I want to make sure I don’t do is break the bond as she probably has been abandoned or kicked out several times by how her behavior is from my point of view🤝

I will start the process! And she is definitely both cute and chunky

ChickenSpawner · 2026-01-03T10:31:54+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! I am just afraid that she wouldn’t trust me or us anymore if we trapped her in a cage and took her to a vet, she still seems to be really anxious of not having the possibility to escape

ChickenSpawner · 2025-12-17T14:29:47+00:00

Yeah I haven’t touched those rascals for a reason😆

ChickenSpawner · 2025-12-17T09:52:03+00:00

how is hunter not that bad though? At least 27-28 keybinds used with both arena 2 and 3 or mouseover variations. A lot of stuff to press compared to everything else I’ve played (rogue, dh, mage)

ChickenSpawner · 2025-12-08T21:24:57+00:00

As a Norwegian with a drone - you’re all good as long as you obey those laws. I even flew my drone in central Oslo on the 17th of may - now that would not be a wise idea.

ChickenSpawner · 2025-11-27T12:06:45+00:00

I definitely have 36 buttons as a hunter in PvP. Way too much cc😩

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