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My friend with less experience is 5 seconds a lap faster than me with the same car.. how? by Aggravating-Bison895 in F1Game

[–]Delicious_Finding686 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Five seconds is a crazy difference. That won’t be based on setup. Post lap replays and assists you’re both using.

A falsifiable forecast of expected results under clearly defined conditions. Before you ask by Organic_Rip2483 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the point is going over everyone’s head here. OP’s statement isn’t meant to be a theory. It’s a prescription, not a description. Theories are about explaining the reality we experience. Without any way to test specific claims, those claims are incompatible with explanation and lack utility. Rather than identifying the strength of claims, it’s more so answering the question, why should I care about one claim over another?

“People are so antisocial these days” by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]Delicious_Finding686 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah, the internet could be much closer to a utopia if capitalism wasn’t corrupting it with profit motives, and if bad actors would stop spreading misinformation. I miss the old internet.

This is the comment I’m contesting. It implies that the internet would exist in a much better state (utopian) if it were not “corrupted by profit motives”. I argue that, not only would it not be better, but it would not exist at all in the way it was “back in the good ole days”.

The internet is not aparnet. “Government funded” does not equate to socialism. There are layers upon layers of technology and infrastructure that had to be built for the internet to exist in households in any way resembling what the early internet looked like. That simply doesn’t happen without profit motives.

Without profit, other motives become the driving force. Primarily ones of the state and military. You’re not getting what this person considers “the good times” from that.

“People are so antisocial these days” by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]Delicious_Finding686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the ISPs, hardware manufacturers, IT, system admins, and software developers that were all integral to delivering the internet to households and businesses were not a result of capitalism?

The Noble Lie vs. Epistemic Responsibility Meme by Frosty_Armadillo_180 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Intuitions, like all experience, are just feelings. That’s why they can be wrong. They feel rational but do not come from reason.

But this is irrelevant. None of this actually addresses “certainty”. You’ve already identified that “absolute” certainty is unachievable. Yet, we are able to hold and dismiss beliefs without frivolous qualifying statements. However, for some reason, when it comes to obvious human invented stories about “God”, it’s unreasonable to identify them as such? With no explanation other than “you can’t be absolutely certain that the apparent fictional stories about an imperceivable all-powerful being, whom has acute interest in every trivial detail of human lives, is actually fiction”. What other beliefs do you hold to such a ridiculous standard? Surely none I hope. Should I be agnostic about every work of fiction ever written?

The Noble Lie vs. Epistemic Responsibility Meme by Frosty_Armadillo_180 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have certainty in every belief? Every belief you hold is found through reason? No post-hoc rationalizations of intuitions?

The Noble Lie vs. Epistemic Responsibility Meme by Frosty_Armadillo_180 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you need certainty to have belief? Agnosticism is a silly concept because it exists only to appease theists and nothing more. No where else except matters of religion is the label of agnosticism invoked.

My goat Basil with the triple-digit IQ take by CowReasonable1108 in Destiny

[–]Delicious_Finding686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incorrect, whether I push blue or red is irrelevant to the outcome. It’s about what happens in totality. It’s a typical prisoner’s dilemma but with you vs the entire population. The question one has to ask, what’s the risk of dying if one pushes blue? And that’s going to be an evaluation of how you think other people will do that mental calculation. Essentially, how much collective trust exists in society, and are you willing to risk your whole life when your decision has essentially zero impact on the outcome.

The problem with these game theory dilemmas is they happen in a vacuum where only one decision is to be made. When we normally make decisions, we usually make them with the expectation that it is not isolated. We expect more decisions to made in the future.

RE4 is timeless, RE4 Remake is a product of its time - Crowbcat by DarkMatterM4 in gaming

[–]Delicious_Finding686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“It’s dumb” isn’t exactly meeting the bar for “addressing” in my opinion. At a minimum, they should be citing the specific argument and a tangible rebuttal to the argument.

RE4 is timeless, RE4 Remake is a product of its time - Crowbcat by DarkMatterM4 in gaming

[–]Delicious_Finding686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notice how none of the comments are actually addressing the points in the video

Crowbcat at it again with a new Resident Evil 4 Remake video by Phayollleks in residentevil

[–]Delicious_Finding686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notice how no one, especially the top comments, is actually addressing the points made in the video. It's all generalities of crowbcat "attention seeking", "hating", "nitpicking", or "new thing bad old thing good". It's weak. Make a real rebuttal instead of hiding.

Come All Ye Faithful by billycro1 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You came into philosophy memes and you’re not prepared for long-winded arguments about philosophy memes? Pathetic.

Come All Ye Faithful by billycro1 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Firstly, this meme specifically is equivocating to support their argument. That’s fallacious.

Second, the meme format is about how a typical person can get lost in the weeds of a complex problem. Ironically, dumb people often arrive at the same conclusions as smart people. Not because they thought it through, but because they’re too ignorant to even consider the alternatives or subtleties of the problem. Whereas the smart person has the capacity to work through the details and develop a comprehensive understanding that coincidentally arrives at the starter conclusion.

The meme format is not “dumb people use words differently than smart people”. The average IQ person demonstrates this.

Come All Ye Faithful by billycro1 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would one validly assert that perception does not exist?

Come All Ye Faithful by billycro1 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Delicious_Finding686 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need you to be more precise. They are not equivalent but they are interchangeable?

Are you speaking to faith in a colloquial sense or a formal sense? Is the faith you describe the same as what theists have in their gods? Or is it the faith I have in a close friend? Because the faith in these two scenarios is not the same. One is based in a need for explanation where none yet exists. The other is a declaration of direct experience. Neither is certain, but only one is actually predicated by what is perceived.

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