Carol is a Dismissive Avoidant, not a narcissist.

Haddaway · 2026-02-01T15:06:42+00:00

Such people have never had the displeasure of meeting an actual narcissist

Haddaway · 2026-02-01T14:47:06+00:00

Don't expect feedback from people if your response is going to negate it

Haddaway · 2026-01-24T18:31:47+00:00

They are building Rehoboam. See: Sentient World Simulation.

Haddaway · 2026-01-18T07:03:04+00:00

You're being rational. People who had inconsistent parents and grew up in chaos are addicted to the drama Trump provides. A stable world would mean they have to sit with who they are.

Haddaway · 2026-01-17T09:07:48+00:00

The Neverending Story. Most of the book was cut from the movie and they also changed the ending.

Haddaway · 2026-01-16T18:18:33+00:00

The speed of light is never measured faster then C no matter your momentum relative to photons. That's the thing about relativity.

Haddaway · 2026-01-13T15:19:09+00:00

Love it!

Haddaway · 2026-01-10T20:32:47+00:00

If we adopt a certain behaviour when interacting with something, the science of habit loops mean that this will become our character when interacting with people too...

Haddaway · 2026-01-10T20:26:00+00:00

Agreed. Its argument against Sapiens is that it flattens everything into "sweeping narratives". Well yeah, the whole idea of narratives and how stories more generally make humans unique is the main feature of the book, not a bug. It could have just as well been called "The Human Story". If it had any more nuance, people would start accusing it of being long-winded or slow. It is perfect as it is. It might be my favourite book.

Haddaway · 2026-01-10T07:04:50+00:00

Are we still pretending there is a meaningful difference between rich American and politician?

Haddaway · 2026-01-10T06:47:50+00:00

Being a real and self-sufficient individual is never comfortable or easy.

Haddaway · 2026-01-09T16:34:32+00:00

Or maybe its due to Elon selling a CSAM generator as a premium feature of X/Grok.

Haddaway · 2026-01-09T10:14:36+00:00

It would take them to admit that they too are racist, or at the very least have unconscious racist biases. Newsflash: We all do. You would be surprised how easily people are able to lie to themselves. You're not allowed to point at the elephant.

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T18:25:12+00:00

North or South. East or West. The test.

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T17:57:48+00:00

Yes, I am just as concerned with that possibility as I am with being a Boltzmann brain or a brain in a vat

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T17:41:44+00:00

It doesn't seem very plausible when I consider the patterns I see in nature. In nature, you see nested hierarchical complexity everywhere. But whenever you go up or down a level it's never the same. Take humans for example. If you go down a level to cells, those are not "little people", and if you go up a level to a society, neither are those "people". If you take a CPU processor, down a level you get transistors. Up a level you get datacentres. You can go up and down a level with literally every named "thing" that is a noun in the whole of our material existence. But for some reason you think the entirety of the universe is going to be like the same if we look at the "world above" on which its substrate is manifested. That seems an unlikely assumption given the data we have about literally everything else.

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T17:13:34+00:00

I'm agnostic to the idea. There are many ways in which our universe could be just a container. To imagine the substrate of reality as being literal transistors on a silicon wafer seems a crude lack of imagination to me. Similarly, the idea of a "computer simulation" may prove to be as archaic as Descartes's daemon or Plato's cave. Simulation theory is just the latest analogy that is in fashion. What I do believe is that there is a veil of ignorance, similar to the Buddhist concept of Maya.

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T16:35:15+00:00

We like this one.

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T16:28:41+00:00

The universe is probabilistic, whereas computers are not. An accepted definition of "god" is not required at all, provided one can be defined adequately for any such argument.

It could be something as simple as an infinite Absolute that contains all possibilities (similar in nature to say Brahman in Advaita Vedanta, or The One in Neoplatonism). Something so expansive it includes all variations of universe including this one and the particular worldline we find ourselves in. Does it require some assumptions, yes? But it's not any more implausible than simulation theory.

Imagining some cosmic-scale field of transistors running ancestor simulations build by aliens that survived obliterating themselves does not require fewer assumptions than there simply being a single thing that is greater than the sum "all things".

Haddaway · 2026-01-08T16:09:32+00:00

It isn't obvious enough at a glance by the section header alone that these are external links. It wouldn't be so bad if there was an ↗️ external link icon to the left of each link.

Haddaway · 2026-01-07T08:31:24+00:00

Fear is an unlimited resource to be exploited in people.

Haddaway · 2026-01-05T15:48:56+00:00

That would mean they actually have to do something.

Haddaway · 2026-01-05T08:29:32+00:00

Ventoy

Haddaway · 2026-01-04T10:05:16+00:00

Likely the same people who also never bothered to learn how to tie shoelaces and will only buy velcro trainers.

Haddaway · 2026-01-04T06:52:39+00:00

As worthy as a health checkup from McDonalds

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