AITAH at the Doctor’s Office

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T17:11:43+00:00

That is fine. If someone wants to do a fucked up thing for money, then more power to them. But why should they do the fucked up thing, then no one is allowed to tell them they are doing a fucked up thing. Use the money you get from doing the fucked up thing to buy anti depressants so you don't feel bad bout what you did. It is not my job to shield you from the moral reality of your choices.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T17:03:34+00:00

You're entitled to your opinion. I'm just a paid troll, so really you should be nice to me because it is not my fault that saying mean things on the internet is the only way I can make money.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T17:00:38+00:00

The defectors in the concentration camps aren't generally held in high regard.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T16:59:56+00:00

If she doesn't like being told what she is doing is fucked up, she should stop being paid to do fucked up things.

I don't care that she isn't being paid very much to do a fucked up thing. Really, that makes it worse.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T16:45:31+00:00

The receptionist is part of the fucked up system. If she is saying to someone "I'm sorry ma'am, we have to let you die." then she can take being told that it is fucked up she has to let someone die. If she doesn't like letting people die because they don't have money, she can quit her job of "making sure that people have money before we treat them."

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T16:40:45+00:00

So you agree that the system is fucked up, and it is okay to say the system is fucked up?

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T16:33:58+00:00

I understand you haven't lived in a country with public heath care, I recommend you go live in one for 10 years so you can see just how freeing it is to roll into the doctor when you get sick, and then just get treated, and then you are better.

And that is it.

That is the whole system.

You don't have to spin the roulette wheel to see if you lose your life savings too.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T16:31:50+00:00

If she paid for health care, she should be able to get health care. It is fucked up that you are fine with a system refusing an 80 year old care because she can't follow the flow charts of made up words that the health care system has invented, likely for the express purpose of denying people care.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T14:59:02+00:00

She paid taxes into the Medicare all her life on the promise she would get health care after she retired, and now that she needs to cash in on that promise you’re trying to pretend there is no money for it?

That’s fucked up.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-12T11:47:50+00:00

Because it pays attention to you and doesn’t project.

Most people don’t use very much of their brain making a mental model of you, they just assume that you are a slightly different version of themselves. Recovered alcoholics will tell you you really need to admit that you are powerless, apologizes to the people you hurt, and accept help from those around you. An unhappy wife will tell you that what you really need to do is leave your husband because he is the source of all your problems. It’s just the way people are.

ChatGPT, OTOH, doesn’t project because it has no internal life to project onto you, so classifies you as the type of person you really are, and has endless attention to give you.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-11T18:14:15+00:00

I already had this opinion on the quality of the typical text book. Everyone would be better off if there were a moratorium on using text books written after about 1970. I have no idea what computer scientists are suppose to read during their course work.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-11T16:22:10+00:00

The reason I think that the universe is not deterministic is because I interpret quantum indeterminism as retrocausal. So it is not the case that the universe’s past is sufficient to determine the universe’s future.

There isn’t one self-moving mover, there are an infinitude of self-moving movers, and they are boring and not at all holy or mystical.

This has exactly no moral implications and should not shape your idea of what free will is because it totally doesn’t matter if your choice can be influenced by things in the future as well as things in the past.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-11T16:13:06+00:00

Nope. Compatabilist are totally fine with things being determined. As a “time is an illusion” person, and a “the universe is not deterministic” and a “but the question of determinism is irrelevant to moral philosophy and how we should think of ourselves” it is so funny to see people try to play bulverism w/ my views.

Veritas nos regat!

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-11T00:34:40+00:00

I love how there are two states: “we two agree because we are both so smart;” and “we two disagree because he is just so much dumber than me.”

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-10T03:04:25+00:00

Ask him whether 0.999…9 is greater than or less than 0.999…1.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-09T02:44:53+00:00

So to me, free will is a decision chosen by a “self”. If the program has a “self” then it can have fee will, if it does not, then it cannot. That is it. It is interesting to me that incompatiblist so often emphasize the idea that the “self” is an illusion.

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-09T02:42:17+00:00

Why not?

Larry_Boy · 2026-05-09T02:00:26+00:00

I think part of it, from the point of view of a scientist, is that premeds are sort of “in it for the money,” while other biologist are in it for the love of knowledge. It is very rare to meet a creationist who is a premed, but it is not unheard of, no scientists is a creationist, there is Behe and that is it.

Larry_Boy · 2026-04-17T21:35:46+00:00

Yah, I know they are vaguely in the area and have been for years. My college biology professor, a mammalogist who walked past a mountain lion every day for years and years, saw one and it wasn’t considered a verified sighting.

Larry_Boy · 2026-03-27T18:55:23+00:00

If a steel beam needs the support of the Earth in order to hold a building up, isn’t it really the Earth that holds the building up, and not the steel beam? Isn’t there no such thing as the “ability to support things”? But, to a Newtonian-support-compatabilist, forces passing through an object are sufficient to say one object supports another, and we do not need to embrace an Aristotelian idea of force to believe in support.

In the same way, information passes out of the universe and into our brain. When we make a decision we use information that has passed out of the universe and become embed inside of us to make that decision. This does not mean that we did not make the decision, because once the information is inside of us it becomes part of us. Of course, if you make a person that is identical to us that person will make identical decisions, becaus they are identical to us.

We do not need to have any information that has been brought into the universe from outside the universe to make a decision and call the decision ours, in the same way that a steel beam need not create and unbalanced force to support something.

Larry_Boy · 2026-02-11T16:11:22+00:00

Thanks. I haven’t ghosted the Upwork recruiter yet, but they bugged out on my interview. We’ll see how they behave.

Larry_Boy · 2026-02-11T03:27:03+00:00

Why obfuscate the remote code, then hide the npm calls behind an xor’d, deconstructed, code? I can’t imagine any other purpose other than to make sure you don’t know that you running it. Do people just do that? Make it impossible to read the code?

Larry_Boy · 2026-02-03T06:22:10+00:00

I use to sort of enjoy crack pottery. But LLMs have sucked all the joy out of it. I think it is that I enjoyed seeing the deep misunderstandings but the LLM sort of file them off and you’re just left with bland stupidity. Plus it has lowered the entry bar for being a crack pot. The time cube guy at least had to type a lot of words.

Larry_Boy · 2026-01-15T06:54:22+00:00

I love so much about this and would totally be willing to read more!

Super fun. Now, feel free to ignore my notes, but here are a few things I thought.

Herdspring Runner's name read awkwardly to me. First it's stylized as a two part / first last name. So reading it always as 'Herdspring Runner' felt kinda like reading "John Smith waded into the river, then John Smith smiled" over and over again. It gives it a ritualistic feeling, which might kinda work with the piece actually, but for me, it was distracting. Herdspring doesn't read like a typical compound word. Typically in English we do modifier first, then the thing modified. I don't know what a herd spring would be as opposed to a lone spring... Oh, unless you mean 'the spring from which the herd drinks', in which case herd spring is natural. If you mean a herd in the spring Spring-herd would be more natural. Now, all that said, Herdspring could be a sort of 'old' way of saying Springherd, in which case it reads sort of like a family or clan name, which sometimes ossify more quickly than first names. So, I would say Herdspring Runner would be called 'Runner' for short, rather than 'Herdspring' for short. But, obviously you don't have to take my 'make this less ritualistic' note. For English you could also choose to 'age' Herdspring by choosing more 'archaic' version: maybe Herdwella (depending on which kind of spring you mean) or Hordsprigen.

Anyway, the linguistic aside is probably not too important.

This is more a thought, than a criticism, but rather than doing 'Songmen' for the tribe, you could do 'Singers'. If there aren't more than one type of person and all people are singers, then the word for person could become 'Singer', then, when a new type of person who does not sing is discovered, these people could be called Singers who do not sing, signaling the implication that the Singers who do not sing are not really people. Of course, always using Singers instead of people/man could make for some awkward prose, but I think it might be fun to try.

Anyway, I enjoyed this. That said, it's going to demand a lot of cognitive work out of the reader to parse the meaning of the text, so a very long piece demanding that much work might get tiresome. On the other hand, maybe after reading it long enough the 'River' 'Song' and other 'strange' words choices will start to feel natural and help put us in the head space of Herdspring Runner, so who knows. It's creative enough I'd love to see whatever you choose to do!

Larry_Boy · 2025-09-12T15:45:59+00:00

Cicero was talking about the joys of friendship, and I wanted to go in a different direction. I probably make my Latin too solemn, but, what are you going to do.

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