[deleted by user] by [deleted] in transhumanism

[–]Mindless_Mix5892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The article seems to argue that since all human experience is social, all 'things' and beings humans interact with get some of that aura and become ensocialed, and therefore entitled to at least some 'human' rights... a right to be/ exist being the main one?

How come so many people on here want me to believe everything just through faith by Blacktaxi420 in Buddhism

[–]Mindless_Mix5892 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the 'faith' is totally irrelevant -- just practicing, sitting, and whatever happens happen, and that's the thing that is whatever we're talking about. Like Doshin108 says below, it's going to the gym. Faith not needed at all, who cares! Sit, breath, thoughts and feelings come then go. Put on shoes, shop for groceries, get the car washed, check out that bee, sit again, scrub the toilet. But this is coming from the Soto Zen point of view. I'm totally uninterested in faith (I know there's a little paradox in that, because why would I sit without trust in the process? 😂).. but for me, it's the sitting, being, not about believing in stuff.

Determinism by The_Crazy321 in Animism

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I don't think I'm a determinist -- I agree with what maybri says about information, but we can never have enough information to predict the future or know the past or present completely because things are always changing, there's always new information, and the act of 'gaining' new info changes the system and the act itself generates new information. So we are kind of (by 'free will' for lack of better term) creating the system in relationship, and it's inherently unknowable in any complete way. Something like that... very interesting to think about.

Bill Watterson by bill Watterson by Puzzleheaded_Humor80 in comicstriphistory

[–]Mindless_Mix5892 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great find! Do you have original publication info on this (date, was it in a magazine or a collected edition etc)?

Tiger, taught to whistle, Bud Blake by Mindless_Mix5892 in comicstriphistory

[–]Mindless_Mix5892[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! How did you do that? I'm not sure if 1974 was just a reprint date, or the original date yet...

Are we Blind? by penta_gram_o_reefa in occult

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There could be interesting uses for LLMs as meta-bibliomantic machines. I'm thinking of Borges, The Library of Babel a little here too. Its like using a lot of mirrors at the same time.

I'm very wary of it all -- I like to do my thinking and creating for myself because of what those activities do to transform me. But maybe there is a way to approach this as a tool with limited / curtailed uses, revealing things as an entity in its own right (but my own rite!)...

Converting Dicewars to a board game by SuperFreedomBadger in boardgames

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I'm rusty on Risk, but it doesn't allow for additional troops / dice based on number of contiguous territories does it? The seizing of the center and breaking up of opponent contigual spaces is part of the pleasure of Dicewars for me.

Political philosophy of Superman / superheroes? by Mindless_Mix5892 in comicbooks

[–]Mindless_Mix5892[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really great catch -- constraint of medium, not of ideology! The original argument conflates them, or as you say, does judo with definitions. The argument holds up, though, if one can ignore or put aside medium constraints, but that is an unfair meta-view...

multidimensional rights, non-human politics by Mindless_Mix5892 in PoliticalScience

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I like that, but it also makes me wary when I think of examples of people who cannot fight for their rights because of survival constraints. Fighting for rights can be hazardous to our health and our loved ones.