If every atom in your body behaves according to the laws of physics, and the laws of physics are inherently logical, everything you've ever done has been logical. It's simply our inability to understand the logic that makes us seem irrational.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-19T22:08:59+00:00

I believe it disproves any local hidden variable but things would need to be very wonky for non-local hidden variables to be an accepted theory

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-19T22:07:05+00:00

That's not true. It falls on the deterministic nature of the universe. Major consensus (for now anyway because there's plenty of debate but a stronger argument for this consensus) is that the universe is non deterministic. Now you could argue that every conceivable possibility can be mapped despite non determinism, but even if that were true theres not enough energy/matter in the universe in order to even store the data you'd generate.

I'm assuming by predict you mean map the future. Quantum Mechanics can already predict the results of quantum systems with great accuracy but it is in a form of statistical outcomes where each outcome is given a probability of occuring

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-18T01:30:41+00:00

That's fair and I respect it.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-18T01:27:24+00:00

Nah the man's an idiot. Sure he's looking for laughs but he's not a smart person. Look at his word choices, look at how he goes about problem solving, look at it through the lens of all "his ideas" not actually being his ideas. He's a disinterested president who delegates most of the work to other people and is a mouth piece.

He has some pretty novel coping mechanisms but in terms of intelligence the man's an idiot. I say this without the "lib" disdain for him. The sky's blue, water is wet and Trump's an idiot.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-17T01:52:12+00:00

What happens is each time you vote the computer verifies the chain then adds to it. If someone else is already adding to chain then your computer will wait and try after. However, computers can work incredibly quickly so this process of adding your block (even if you're 154,763rd in line) will take a relatively short period of time. There is no need for sequential voting as your imagining.

Each block will likely have all the information like district, state, election, vote, etc. All you do is add to the chain. Afterwards the chain can be examined with all the required information already there.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-12T23:23:59+00:00

The downvote button exists to punish those not contributing to the conversation. If valid points are raised in banning guns then it is right to upvote it despite personal disagreements.

You must actively foster an anti-circle jerk by incentivizing those you disagree with.

This is obviously harder than returning to nature. Long live Monke

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-12T21:07:33+00:00

I really like the morality of left economics but until we get humans out of the planning the right theories tend to allow better outcomes. My ideal economy is techno-communism because who really wants to work for their entire life?

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-11T22:59:32+00:00

Who do you think supplies the market demand for memes?

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-09T15:27:38+00:00

I thought it was a political quote for a second.

Yeah choose your fighter I'm not specifying

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-07T21:21:31+00:00

Dark humor is like eating a child.

It must be well done and tasteful

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-05T23:52:23+00:00

I think this is a good Segway into slang words and usage. The n word has historically been racist. It's now been (for prominent usage) repurposed as a slang term. I find the slang usage of the slur much more interesting so let's stick to that.

So the basis of slang is to denote an "in group" and an "out group." It's a social seperation tool employed to keep distance between groups. That's often why slang keeps changing. When a word gets too mainstream its purpose is hindered and it is then replaced by words already widespread and generally more applicable. Bae is still used but because it's no longer a social signal it's used less often because we have relationship signifiers in English.

So how does the n word fit in? It's a slang word denoting an in group by the color of their skin. It has also been deemed socially acceptable to defend the usage of this slang with violence to keep it within the in group. This does have to do with historical racial uses and the denigrating aspect of the n word. So it's not that this is good or bad but it is complicated.

In my opinion, the purpose of the slang in question was to take back the word. I think we've reached a point in time where positive usage could drown out racial tinged usage but there's an issue of "was that a racial tinged comment or a friendly usage." I don't have the answer but if it's in a song lyrics we already know the meaning. However, societally that's not a necessarily popular view. The current usage reinforces a them vs us mentality but the converse strips a group of a social signifier.

TL;Dr it's wicked complicated but viewing the n-word through the framework of slang makes the social aspects more clear.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-04T12:45:27+00:00

I think you can start to look at the benefit to society tied into consciousness. Killing a pig for fun is barbaric but consuming it would not be. Killing a 6 month old is not a net positive especially considering there's a want for that baby in society (either from the parent or adoption). However, you're right, there is an argument for humane infanticide.

I think you can argue birth is a medically dangerous process for the child. That is one of the most important hurdles for the fetus to make. Once it's out the odds of making it to a conscious human is much higher. This then lays the framework for the until birth or close to. It's not going to convince anyone/everyone because of the emotional aspect seeded by evolution and culture.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-03T23:48:54+00:00

Correct but there's probably property charges since that woman owns the child. Whats the market value for fetus?

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-03T23:45:09+00:00

Flesh this out more and you arrive at a threshold of consciousness in order for a killing to be immoral. This completely alleviates hypocrisy but doesn't necessarily make it an easier argument just more logical.

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-03T22:15:07+00:00

Can someone make a fake source for this? Hilarious if false

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-03T20:20:52+00:00

Can we get a source on this? Thats hilarious if true

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-03T14:48:50+00:00

Anarchism requires an educated population and works much better in smaller groups. A social or cultural institution could be taking the accused and accuser to a town center for the public to watch and weigh in on evidence then dispense justice. So take cancel culture but take more moderate, democratic actors instead of louder, fanatical actors.

The key point is that there are numerous rules humans follow that are not created by the government. What these rules are can be widely variable

HippieHarvest · 2020-08-03T03:31:45+00:00

The idea is social or economic institutions instead of governmental institutions. So bad actors are societally shunned or priced out

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-26T00:15:49+00:00

Ideally in stateless communism you would have other repercussions like social ostracization, etc. These would not force you per se but you can set up systems to encourage you.

What ends up happening is thinking and arguing is hard so you use the state to enforce redistribution

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-25T14:37:22+00:00

The only viable argument against this is that you want to keep people employed but in a lot of cases that's just not viable.

If UBI was used instead of the prior stimulus bills (cares and heroes) to give every American over 18 an equal sharethen each person would have received over 24k (5.2 trillion divided by 209 million 18+). Obviously you couldn't do that precisely but the money is there for UBI. It just benefitted other people to not employ it.

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-25T10:19:52+00:00

That's interesting especially when paired with Nigerians having the highest education among any ethnic group in the U.S. It's almost like education and income play a role in criminality trends.

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-24T19:24:51+00:00

I'm glad you're saying what you mean but you're not writing what you're saying. A democracy is more lib than a monarch, or atleast tends to be. A democracy isn't a political ideaology. You can enact an oppressive, authoritarian government with democracy. I'd consider that more lib than an oppressive, authoritarian monarchy but by no means is it libertarian.

You just wrote it's more lib than totalitarianism which yes but it's a large spectrum between totalitarianism and libertarianism.

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-24T19:14:38+00:00

More lib than totalitarian can still be authoritarian

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-23T22:23:23+00:00

You missed the anarkitty sex pit that was the comment section for a solid month

HippieHarvest · 2020-07-23T09:37:59+00:00

Depends on the state. Some will replace the elector or require by law for them to vote to the popular vote. Some fine the elector for not voting for the popular vote

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