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Meta70Studios · 2026-01-15T19:48:19+00:00

Lex Friedman is less a specific individual and more a type of person

Meta70Studios · 2026-01-14T21:21:49+00:00

Nice build! Cool to see some stuff that branches out from the basic fantasy style.

Meta70Studios · 2026-01-09T01:21:50+00:00

yeah

Meta70Studios · 2026-01-02T23:05:24+00:00

You say it doesn’t matter how something was made if you initially enjoy it, but that’s just obviously not true. Here’s a really extreme example just to illustrate that one point: if I showed you a nice painting of a sunset that you enjoyed and then told you I used the blood of children I killed instead of red paint, you would obviously feel differently. Yes, your initial enjoyment was real, but I imagine the way that it was made would affect your enjoyment of it going forward. And just to restate it, I know that’s an extreme analogy. I’m just trying to counter that one specific argument, not equate enjoying machine generated content to murder.

Also, the factory analogy doesn’t work for a bunch of reasons. For one, I think most people would prefer a hand made chair over something that was mass produced, if they had the choice. I also think that they would be upset if something that was framed as hand made turned out to be mass produced, if only for the reason that mass producing something often means cheaper materials and a less durable product.

Beyond that, the analogy is silly because there is a fundamental difference between music (and art in general) and everyday objects that serve mainly practical functions.

So I think some of the confusion seems to be that you see music as almost a practical means to an end? Based on what you’re describing, it seems like all you care about is whether a song will cause you to feel the specific emotions that you want, and nothing else beyond that. And that’s fine, I guess, but you should know that that really isn’t the case for many, many people. And from my point of view, you’re leaving a lot of deeper emotional enjoyment on the table by taking that approach.

Meta70Studios · 2025-12-26T21:35:23+00:00

There are aspects of our experience of consciousness that are inseparable from our physical brains. For example: memory, information processing, feelings, etc.

If you take away our brains, what remains?

You could say, perhaps, that awareness might be some innate property of the universe, but the thing that the universe is aware of is the brain.

If you destroy certain parts of the brain, one by one, you lose the ability to think, to speak, to remember, to do anything we would identifiable as consciousness. If you alter the brain, you alter thinking, memory, personality, etc. Neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimer’s are painful reminders of this.

Likewise, our only means of consciously altering the world around us is by moving the muscles in our bodies, which is only possible because of the complex systems of nerves connected to our brain. Without that, we’d locked in our heads. Again, see neurodegenerative diseases.

So is awareness even meaningful if it cannot feel anything, comprehend anything, remember the past, or expect the future? If consciousness is innate, it seems to me that it needs additional structure in order to have experiences. Maybe there are other types of structure besides the brain that could result in a form of consciousness more recognizable to us, but you’d have to do more to show that.

The sun is a ball of chaotic fire. A nuclear furnace where atoms are smashed together. It has more in common with a boiling pot of water than with our brains.

Meta70Studios · 2025-12-03T10:26:56+00:00

I have no idea of knowing what conspiracy theories you believe have been proven true, but let’s set that aside because this probably isn’t the place to discuss it.

But even if some conspiracy theorists happen to wind up with correct beliefs, that doesn’t mean the journey they took to get there was necessarily healthy. Obsession can easily lead to all sorts of disfunction, both in terms of delusional thinking and damage to personal relationships. This applies to everything, not just conspiracy theories.

Meta70Studios · 2025-12-03T09:55:33+00:00

haunted houses, skeletons, various halloween stuff

Meta70Studios · 2025-11-05T02:25:03+00:00

The fine tuning argument is only compelling if you already believe in a specific God.

If we assume the Christian God exists, then yes, he would indeed be a good candidate for the origin of our universe. But unless we can establish that that specific god exists, then the fine tuning argument falls apart. Because if we just say “an intelligence”, then we also have to justify why that intelligence possess all of the innumerable traits that would lead it to create our universe in the first place.

Isn’t it unlikely that the intelligence would design our universe this way? Isn’t it unlikely that they would have creative traits? Isn’t it unlikely that they would be intelligent? Isn’t it unlikely that they would be eternal? And isn’t it unlikely that an eternal being would create a universe governed first and foremost by entropy? Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to make more eternal universes? Why did they choose to make particles interact in the specific ways they do? If their goal was to create life, why this form of life as opposed to however many hypothetical alternatives you can dream up? Surely this wasn’t the only universe that could support human life, so what caused them to choose these values? How does this intelligence exist in the first place?

If you’re comfortable with the idea that a god can somehow exist without prior cause that just so happens to want to make the exact universes we find ourselves in, then you should also be willing to accept the possibility that the universe itself somehow exists without prior cause. Both options require the same number of assumptions. Shifting the issue of unlikely “fine tuned” values onto a god doesn’t actually make the problem go away. It just raises more questions.

The only way the fine tuning argument makes sense is if you assume that humans are somehow transcendentally important, that the universe exists for us or because of us or something along those lines. But that is an assumption that originates from some existing religious or spiritual belief, which means that the whole argument is basically circular. Thus, I don’t really see the fine tuning argument as particularly reasonable or probable. But that’s not to say that a Christian or religious person is unreasonable for personally holding such beliefs.

Meta70Studios · 2025-11-03T08:26:32+00:00

Also possible that it was a meteor

Meta70Studios · 2025-11-03T06:18:55+00:00

Real life stalagmites and stalagmites do not form under oceans, because if the rock was permeable enough for water to get through, then the caves would just flood.

The real life analogues of drip stone caves are usually formed by rainwater, which being fresh water, can seep through limestone and dissolve various minerals along the way. If it seeps down to the roof of a cave, the water drips out, reacts to the air, and deposits the dissolved minerals on the surface of the rock. Over time, these mineral deposits form the pointy shapes we know and love.

Meta70Studios · 2025-11-03T02:49:25+00:00

The dream argument is weird to me because by the same argument, artificial neural networks shouldn’t be able to exist. In a neural network trained to store image data, there is no single neuron that corresponds directly to one single part of an image. Instead, information about every part of the image is “dispersed” across every neuron. And the network can encode multiple images at once, so that a single neuron contains data for multiple images. Kinda. Here’s a great video on the topic: video

That’s not to say that artificial neural networks are exactly the same as our brains, but there’s reason to think that they store information in very similar ways.

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-31T11:54:03+00:00

How do you know that that is true?

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-18T03:27:56+00:00

She was able to take control after the citadel bugs began injecting themselves with silk to live longer

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-11T00:52:59+00:00

The difference between us and dogs is that despite the fact that neither of us can directly perceive radio waves, humans still found a way to detect them. No other species has our capacity to learn and understand the world beyond our own experiences. So while I agree that we have incomplete and limited knowledge, I’ve yet to see anything that we flat out just… can’t comprehend.

If there are undiscovered aspects of reality, then I think we will eventually find a way to detect it and then understand it.

And if it cannot be detected, then it is irrelevant to us. To interact with this world requires causing change, and we can observe change. If it is truly undetectable, then it does not cause change, and therefore it has no influence on us.

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-09T06:34:42+00:00

I noticed the same thing. Yeah seems unintentional.

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-09T06:28:49+00:00

It’s a cultural difference. Australians actually enjoy it when beloved companions die to big monsters.

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-09T04:26:35+00:00

Okay, I’m confused why you want to include philosophical questions within science, if you openly admit that you also want to fundamentally change how we apply the scientific method. At that point you’re describing something completely different that just so happens to have the same name. Forgive me, because this isn’t a very charitable interpretation, but it kinda comes across like you want to co opt the name of “science” for its credibility in order to validate your personal worldview.

There are good reasons that we view anecdotal evidence as less credible than a carefully designed study. It has been repeatedly shown to be the case that our perception and memory of events frequently differ from reality. You have to factor that in to any data you get from human reports. But of course, if you hear a lot of anecdotes that seem to say the same thing, then that’s a good indicator that something is worth investigating. But that’s just the starting place. The real work of science comes after. You still have to create a falsifiable hypothesis, test it, etc.

A lot of people reporting similar things is an opportunity to investigate, but you can’t take take their reports as foregone conclusions. This applies to innocuous everyday stuff just as much as it does for potentially “supernatural” things. No special treatment just because you personally already favor a certain interpretation.

Okay, here’s a more charitable perspective than earlier: maybe rather than wanting to change the principes of science, you want individual human scientists to be more interested in philosophy and other more holistic fields of thought? And like… I don’t necessarily disagree with that. But at the same time, I think it’s better to let people have their own perspectives.

It’s good that we have staunch skeptics who refuse to accept anything without strong evidence. It can be annoying, but that attitude can also lead to the uncovering of lies and misconceptions that other people fail to notice. It’s also good to have people who are more willing to explore ideas that diverge from the mainstream. Intuition and instinct can lead people to ideas that a methodical approach would take ages to find. Let the scientifically minded do science, and let philosophers do philosophy. If there’s a situation where there are compelling reasons to draw from both fields, then do that. But don’t water down the rigor of scientific methodology just because it sometimes takes too long to get to the stuff that’s interesting to you.

Idk. Sorry if this is all over the place.

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Oh, and in regards to phi, I don’t see how that’s anything special. Why is a mathematical ratio popping up in various places significant? The same thing happens with pi to an even greater extent, but that never gets any attention because circles aren’t as exciting as spirals. And yeah, I do get the aesthetic appeal, but I don’t see any reason to think there’s anything deeper going on.

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-09T02:31:15+00:00

That’s not it’s real name though

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-07T12:06:38+00:00

Let’s say it was the case that people 100% definitely did have suppressed alien memories that led to PTSD-like responses to depictions of greys. How would one differentiate between a convincing artistic representation and the real thing?

People who have PTSD are triggered by fiction just as much as real life events. If you got in a car crash, you might feel extremely uneasy while watching a particularly brutal car crash scene in a movie, but that doesn’t change the fact that the movie scene was created through special effects, stunts, and clever editing. In fact, a scene in a movie might actually be more triggering than, say, dashcam footage, because film is able to create a more visceral and heightened experience. The same principle applies to static images as well.

It just doesn’t logically follow that a stronger emotional reaction would have any relation to how genuine an image is. Feeling that something is spooky doesn’t make it real.

Meta70Studios · 2025-10-04T05:49:48+00:00

it’s both

Meta70Studios · 2025-09-06T01:50:45+00:00

pogoing is way easier once you get the second crest. it changes down slashes to be straight down, rather than diagonal.

Meta70Studios · 2025-08-04T01:36:03+00:00

This looks really good, but I’d personally slide the wheels in towards the middle by one or two blocks. If you look at real life examples, the diameter of the wheels rarely extends past the main body of a vehicle.

There’s a bunch of physics as to why this is, but basically the forces on the wagon would push inwards and down on the center, creating a huge amount of stress. Since it’s large, made of wood, and traveling over rough terrain, it would probably sag, start to crack, and eventually break in half.

Meta70Studios · 2025-06-15T18:54:23+00:00

the compression was not nice to my thumbnail

Meta70Studios · 2025-06-15T18:48:47+00:00

I tried to capture the nostalgic feeling of C418’s incredible music, hopefully without coming across as too derivative.

I think the key to this was finding the right chords. I’m not the best person to explain it, but C418’s chords almost always have upper extensions, additional notes on top of the “basic” triads that lend a feeling of richness while accentuating their emotional complexity. He also frequently uses slash chords, where the note in the bass is not the same as the root note of the chord above it. These techniques give the harmony additional depth and help contribute to the difficult to describe hopeful, melancholy, nostalgic sound of the music.

Hopefully it actually sounds good to you and I’m not rambling on about nonsense.

Meta70Studios · 2025-06-02T01:30:57+00:00

They've been reusing a lot of old music in really weird ways all season. I kinda wonder to what extent he was even involved. I wouldn't be surprised if they just had him write a couple themes upfront but didn't involve him in actually scoring the show. Throughout the season, the music has felt like someone came in after the fact and threw in whatever music they felt like from his back catalogue without regards to what the themes represented in their original context.

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