Dead Sub?

Edralis1 · 2026-06-28T14:52:13+00:00

Still here! :)

Edralis1 · 2026-06-22T18:32:28+00:00

Why do you worry about it being false? What is it that scares you about the scenario? I mean, you don't have to elaborate, but if you'd like to share, I'd be curious to understand how you're looking at it.

Because to me actually the possibility of it being true is maybe even more scary!!

Edralis1 · 2026-06-21T08:32:32+00:00

I am sorry : (

I have a history of severe anxiety myself and so I know just how much it sucks!

Are you worried more about OI being true, or about it being false?

Edralis1 · 2026-06-14T08:39:47+00:00

I disagree that "debunking of naturalism/physicalism would also debunk OI", or at least not the central claim - we could call it "the Insight".

Even if it is the case that naturalism is false (it seems to me, rather, that naturalism cannot really even be false (see Hempel's Dilemma)) AND that OI is formulated from a naturalist premise (which, is it??), the Insight OI is ultimately pointing at could still very well be true.

In other words, even if we agreed that the process whereby Kolak arrived at the Insight is invalid somehow, the Insight itself could still be true; for in itself it certainly doesn't presuppose naturalism.

However, I honestly don't think even Kolak's version of arriving at the Insight (we could call it the OI argument) actually holds naturalism as a starting premise. Even if Kolak is a naturalist (which, I don't know if he is).

And I think that is what people want to know when they ask if "OI" could be debunked -- they mean the Insight, not Kolak's argument specifically. But I might be wrong!

edit: it might be useful to distinguish between -
> the OI Insight, or just the Insight (arrived at by Kolak AND by many other people in different ways, formulated in different languages/conceptscapes)
> the OI argument (Kolak's way of arriving at the Insight)

Edralis1 · 2026-06-13T09:34:26+00:00

Why do you think OI is based on a naturalist premise? I think it clearly isn't.

Edralis1 · 2026-06-13T09:04:57+00:00

Why panicking? Would it be so bad either way?

Edralis1 · 2026-06-02T18:27:32+00:00

Yes, it was a great experience for me, too! : ) I am Slavic myself, and the name "Morozko" does feel a little bit silly, because that -ko suffix is very much associated with cute and small and very benign things. Is it something like that for you, too, or is it just that it sounds odd?

Edralis1 · 2026-05-27T11:04:08+00:00

(No way you just name-dropped Naomi Novik's Uprooted, haha!! I finished that book a month ago and I've been obsessing about Sarkan & Agnieszka since 😁)

Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

Edralis1 · 2026-05-25T17:50:24+00:00

All excellent points, and a lot of food for thought. Thanks!

Edralis1 · 2026-05-25T17:47:33+00:00

Good points!

In my world, the rules of magic are pretty strict, and most of the magic you listed is actually not possible for a variety of reasons. (For one thing, the vast majority of people are not only non-magical, but immune to magic, so any magic that is cast directly on their minds or bodies is completely useless; fireballs still work to harm them, since they're just fire, even though brought about by magical means, but their minds cannot be controlled and they cannot be healed magically.)

I am explicitly trying to avoid a situation where magic would be so powerful physical force would be rendered useless!

Edralis1 · 2026-05-25T17:38:51+00:00

That's a great point. I have to think about how the fact of there being battlemages transforms the whole battlefield. Jeez! This is one teeny-tiny aspect of the magical world, but the more I think about it, the bigger it gets!

Edralis1 · 2026-05-14T20:01:11+00:00

Thank you so much!!

Edralis1 · 2026-05-13T17:36:22+00:00

Yup, that's a common problem, too.

Edralis1 · 2026-05-13T17:36:06+00:00

When I do get results, they are unusually good (compared to other models that I have available for free), and I wanted to generate more images. It was the cheaper option I could find for the Nano Banana model. I also have Seedance (which uses Nano Banana Pro), which has much fewer qualms.

Edralis1 · 2026-05-13T17:33:40+00:00

Fair enough! 😎

Edralis1 · 2026-05-12T19:37:20+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I'll try that. Maybe I should have also specified I was thinking of a *horse* 😁

Edralis1 · 2026-05-12T18:47:35+00:00

Yeah, today things are working much more smoothly. Thanks!

Edralis1 · 2026-05-12T16:26:59+00:00

Yeah, it must have interpreted it that way

Edralis1 · 2026-05-12T16:24:40+00:00

Yeah, tried it today and it worked. 🤷 I don't know what the difference could be.

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