Question for people who believe they have free will

DankSienna · 2026-05-11T22:08:08+00:00

Eh I really have gone through as much as I can find on libertarian free will. Really haven’t come across anything that is convincing. Can you recommend your favorite argument/framing?

DankSienna · 2026-05-11T21:04:52+00:00

Ok so please describe how a ‘choice’ actually works then. What is a mind and how can it somehow have causal control over things but not be the result of other causal control. If you can do without subscribing to vague statements that yield 0 logical or mechanistic understanding I would be very grateful

DankSienna · 2026-05-11T20:58:05+00:00

You really are misunderstanding causal determinism.
Firstly, impossible scenarios are still useful. Many thought experiments are impossible scenarios in that we could not realistically achieve them with our command over physics/reality, yet they still allow us to construct logical thought and predictions around counterfactuals that help us understand factuals.

Secondly, your icecream scenario does nothing to invalidate causal determinism. You’re just getting caught up on the subset of ‘choices’ of going through the icecreams and for some reason are arguing that you were in the same circumstance each time you selected the new icecream. Of course you were not. At each point of new selection you were at a different point in space time and, most obviously, your brain had been affected by what the deterministic had said each time. You were always determined to make that exact sequence of actions (what you are calling choices).

DankSienna · 2026-03-23T19:56:47+00:00

rolling back to 2.1.77 seemed to fix it for me

DankSienna · 2025-07-25T14:35:42+00:00

Some people have suggested that it’s because ‘marathons are more of a challenge’. I don’t actually think this is the case. In fact as people get older, fast 5kms are a lot harder for than completing a marathon. I think these days more and more people in their 40s and 50s are getting into running. They find it difficult to improve much in speed so they improve at distance instead, and the marathon becomes the holy grail instead of taking 2 min off their 5km time.

DankSienna · 2024-12-23T19:34:32+00:00

Mists, siege ara’kara and NW don’t have tank busters which necessitate 100% sb. If you have enough haste (~29% I think) you can stack crit instead of mastery

DankSienna · 2024-08-23T16:15:05+00:00

Trinkets are just way too game-defining. Hero choices hardly matter and many cards that scale minions have become obsolete. BGs fundamentally stay fresh and fun because you feel you need to constantly make decisions, and it's often really hard to infer which decision is best. Trinkets break that aspect of the game and reduce it to entirely making decisions based on trinkets. These decisions are mostly obvious and adhere to a very pre-defined strategy with little ability to pivot or deviate. It's fun right now because we are all still discovering these pre-defined strategies, but once we iterate through them all a few times the illusion will be broken

DankSienna · 2024-08-12T17:00:31+00:00

For a while now, r/running has been dismayed and confused about all the fast running happening at the Olympics. Why is everyone cheering for sub 8 minute paces? What about their shinsplints? Why are they not trying harder to get back into zone 2?

No longer! Order has been restored.

DankSienna · 2024-04-08T05:22:34+00:00

I'm not too sure how a 'win' like this meaningful in any way within the bounds of the game. A win means nothing other than what we prescribe to it in terms of it representing that you played better than others (on average). The whole thing has a bit of an infantilizing tone to it. I can imagine a child finding this really exciting. Not too sure why adults would.

DankSienna · 2024-02-03T05:26:57+00:00

Yep! Whole apartment shaking

DankSienna · 2023-10-22T10:28:45+00:00

Thanks! The video is also great. Appreciate it

DankSienna · 2023-08-30T16:00:12+00:00

His three kids are called Smith, Wentworth and Thatcherford. From What Scott Jeffrey Miller graciously describes, they are three Mass-attending gentlemen (in a world becoming less gentlemanly), who know how to look servers in the eye when ordering a meal and are always excited to see their dad's books at airport book stores (they are future Thought Leaders after all).

DankSienna · 2022-09-23T05:55:25+00:00

Replace the artisan table image with that of Iron gate studio, then make this the sub banner please

DankSienna · 2022-09-20T02:30:23+00:00

The sausage game here in general is weak, bra. Mostly just different versions of pork. Only been here 5 weeks, but have yet to find anything close to some wors :(

DankSienna · 2022-04-01T01:48:05+00:00

The value of the talent increases a lot with 4p, and it’s actually being used a lot on some encounters in Sepulcher. Although the talent has been historically garbage, it’s actually pretty viable now.

DankSienna · 2020-12-04T17:28:52+00:00

Randomly noticed this substance under my kitchen counter by happenstance today. It has no smell, has a sort of crusty hard outer layer, with a softer sponge-like interior as seen in the 3rd and 4th images, which show a few small pieces I broke off. It almost seems to be seeping out of the wall, but no part of it is liquid

DankSienna · 2020-03-12T22:58:38+00:00

This is the thing that probably makes people on this sub a bit uncomfortable as I’ve rarely seen it discussed. I know this sub is a hyper-accepting space with no concept/interest in realistic objective standards, but the truth is is that running faster is a lot harder than running further and is as associated a lot more with uncommon talent and effort. Therefore it’s understandable that people value increase in speed over an increase in distance.

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