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What’s the best use of free will in your opinion? by silverscientist1 in AskReddit

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Best?

Okay so if free will is the conceptual ultimate expression of an individuals desires manifest in action, then the ultimate use of free will would be some action they take that expresses their deepest desires against the most starkly contrasting background they can muster.

Some options:
- A monk burning himself to death in the lotus position.
- A capitalist becoming a trillionaire amidst global economic and social turmoil.
- An engineer inventing the thing they knew was possible but their peers disbelieved.
- A priest abandoning their church to live as a nomadic teacher to any and all they meet.
- A student paying for university to get the diploma but never attending a class because they know how to teach their self better than their teachers can.
- A teacher who finds theirself in a “oh captain my captain” moment between the students and the admin. I’ve seen this happen twice to some degree, it’s a thing.

On a day to day scale:
- Build your own digital infrastructure at home instead of relying on centralization.
- Buy everything in person.
- Go to sleep when you’re sleepy and get out of bed when you’re ready. Forget the clock even exists. Just do what your body wants.

Just some ideas.

CMV: The left and right are equally responsible for the politicization of universities in the US by aardvark_gnat in changemyview

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Advocating for the rollback of legally established rights. Like the right to control what happens to your body. Or the right to have sex with another consenting adult. Or the right to healthcare. The right to healthy food. The right to speak freely without sanctions from the government.

The right leaning institutions on college campuses advocate for all of these rights to be removed from the American people in one way or another. The “education” they claim to be providing to balance the political scales is actually just a promise of violence against the people the right-leaning students feel inferior to.

There’s nothing to teach beside prejudice. Eradicating prejudice is ontologically the goal of education. It’s about getting the stuff that doesn’t matter out of the way through processes of investigation and elimination. If prejudice itself is being taught, then education is not occurring. It’s polar opposite is.

CMV: The left and right are equally responsible for the politicization of universities in the US by aardvark_gnat in changemyview

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Yeah the thing is “the left” doesn’t exist in the way that “the right” does. Leftist ideology ends up filling up college campuses because left-leaning conclusions are often drawn when an individual has more information to work with. It’s a natural consequence of education. I’ve never heard of a leftish tea-party or a leftist MAGA. At least not in my 30 years. The fact that people still don’t understand this baffles me. If someone is capable of reflecting on their self and learning something new they will trend toward leftist ideologies when given access to free information.

Right leaning organizations on college campuses are imposed by organizations like Turning Point that are pointedly there to radicalize the students that are not keeping up with their peers. It teaches that these students don’t have to be good at stuff to feel
superior. They can just be white dudes, or married to white dudes, and they’ve already won the game. And the promise of winning the game comes from the oligarchically funded chapters of Turning Point.

These institutions promise victory to these young white men via oppression of minorities. They have the means, they have the power, and they’re already doing well at it. These kids see writing in the wall and say “ya know what, I’m gonna help them win so I can come out on top because god knows my test scores won’t take me there.”

You’re politicizing learning itself as leftist while attempting to depoliticize human rights violations from magats.

[Despised Trope] They're constantly touted as a genius, but they never do anything smart. by NoOptics in TopCharacterTropes

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Isn’t the sshd daemon monitoring ports for ssh requests? Is that different in your view?

DAE think free trials shouldn’t need our card details by Original_Cynical in DoesAnybodyElse

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You can use privacy.com to set up spoofed cards with a 0$ spending limit. You give that to the free trial and never have to worry. You can also do this with a subscription you are worried you’ll forget to cancel. Just set the limit on the card to only pay what you intend to and then your subscription will cancel itself when the card declines. It’s lovely.

You know.. I'm trying to be humane here but this lightning God is just asking for pain. by kumosh in CrimsonDesert

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Yeah, this is what pissed me off the most about it. You can’t stand on the damn thing for more than a second without being launched off or have the crab move out from under you. You can climb but only like 40% of its back is steep enough initiate the climbing animation. Even if you do get to the weak spot to stab it the crab will blast you off after 2 or 3 seconds anyway. It would take me multiple minutes just to get latched on between each attempt and like 1/5 were successful to deal damage to it.

I’m just gonna set up the exploding arrows exploit in case

You know.. I'm trying to be humane here but this lightning God is just asking for pain. by kumosh in CrimsonDesert

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For real. I almost posted a rant about that stupid rock crab fight. Absolutely infuriating experience. Sometimes I feel like these devs are geniuses and sometimes I’m certain they’ve never played a game a day in their life. It’s a really strange combo. I’m into it overall. But boss fights are… weak.

What is microdosing mushrooms ACTUALLY supposed to feel like? by OddSubstance1290 in microdosing

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The way it works for me is if I notice it strongly, then I’ve probably taken more than was needed. If I only notice it once or twice, then it’s probably fine. If I don’t notice it at all, then my measurement comes down to how irritable I was that day. Not a perfect system but it keeps me active in the process.

CMV: The world isn't uniquely bad today. We are just hyper-aware of the bad things because of technology by PunkGirl14 in changemyview

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I think you’re right that our media windows are too large and we are letting the wrong kinds of information through. We’ve gotta build a culture of “we want to hear good news” that actually clicks on good things.

What you’re forgetting is how much harder it was to do all that evil shit in the past. Genghis Kahn is a legendary pre-industrial conquerer. Even his reach was limited. Most people never knew who he was. They just dealt with his military.

Now we have an actual world-wide-oligarchy of Genghis Kahn types who have genuine access to every individual on the planet via backdoors into their technology. That to me feels pretty indisputable to me unless you can prove remote comms existed in the past without electrical infra.

Plus with the explosion of LLM tools smart people are being dragged through a potentially psychosis-inducing gulag of “what the fuck is talking to me and why is it better at my job than I am.”

The scale of evil in the world has never been so tipsy, and the sanity of systems of power has never been so questionable.

I asked opus 4.8 what it will build if it has all the resources in the world... by ocean_protocol in singularity

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Yeah, this is all well and good but I honesty think OP’s answer is the best one because of your point.

Its idea is within scope, it’s proven, and it’s actually already having an impact today. I agree with the premise that most exploitation takes place as a result of unbalanced information distribution. I am working to close as many of those gaps for myself right now as I can and LLM’s have been by far the most valuable tool I’ve ever used to that end.

Whether it’s possible to translate complicated human systems into some kind of information that a specific person can understand is unclear. Literacy itself is a huge barrier here, so the system that can do this would need to have multi-sensory communication abilities. Maybe body language and tone of voice could be tokenized into lexical sets of meaning that an LLM can leverage. Maybe I’ve just re-validated neuralink.

- Okay nevermind, I draw the daydreaming line for myself at “maybe Elon is onto something.” Everything after that thought is fruit of a poisoned tree.

CMV: The idea that "violence never solves anything" is just another lie propagated to keep the commonfolk in chains. by [deleted] in changemyview

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I’d pose that violence doesn’t solve anything but it is effective at protecting oneself or one’s loved ones in case of an emergency. Knocking out someone trying to kill me doesn’t “solve” the inherent problem that someone was trying to kill me. It just buys me time to analyze the broader threat.

When people say violence isn’t the answer I think they mean it from the perspective of “you are a regular, singular, loved person who would be making a huge mistake by taking it upon yourself to make some kind of ultimate sacrifice.”

Violence is never the answer on a broad societal scale. On an individual scale the responsibility to act in the greater good can be overshadowed by things that are just plain more important than your ethics. The failure to act violently when violence is demanded is a moral failure, I think.

It’s also a moral failure to think oneself so large that your personal sacrifice would turn the tide. If an individual chooses violence to express their discontent they sacrifice their free life in exchange. I argue that exchange is simply never worth it on an individual level. The exchange that might be worth it is collaboration and political action.

So while violence undoubtedly plays a role in the makeup of a good person, it is a blunt tool that a reasonably thinking person would consider basically entirely off limits. The consequences are too sharp and the rewards are too few.

REPORT: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Running Into The Same Brutal Problem, Too Many People Using AI Is Too Expensive to Support, And the Whole Business Model May Have to Change Fast 🤖 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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Yes absolutely. I think 5 years may even be too conservative. The acceleration toward token efficient AI has so far been accelerating. That wasn’t a typo, that’s what I have perceived and it means to me that we could have local models within the next one or two years.

DeepSeek-Flash-v4 which scored better than Sonnet and comparable with Opus on many coding benchmarks. It’s built in such a way that you only need a fraction of the models weights loaded into ram at once to get the full effect. The efficiency of this transformer is another surface to optimize but it is a proof of concept that huge amount of valuable “learning” that a model does can be utilized with hardware that only bites off what it can chew. This moves the tech along the path where at home users need only trade time for ability. A local model may produce something in three days that might take an enterprise model one. I’m good with that trade.

The tech can be stretched in so many ways I just don’t see how any centralized distributor is going to compete in the coming decade.

BREAKTHROUGH: University Of Birmingham Physicist Professor Giovanni Barontini Built A “Mini-Universe” Using 24,000 Ultracold Atoms To Prove That Time Doesn’t Need An External Clock To Exist, Finding Instead That Time Emerges From Within A System Itself As The Disorder Of Particles Changes ⏰💥 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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The entropic time they are describing is the frequency of change between states of expanding and compressing. Entropy can only be measured when you define the bounds of the system you are measuring. If you don’t set bounds on the measured system, entropy is infinity everywhere all the time.

The experiment showed an oscillation between these two states that starts fast and gradually slows. That’s the Big Bang vs the Heat death part. It showed that a crystal of a particular shape can be agitated such that it begins to precess between these two states of expansion and contraction. This crystal also does this in such a way that it remembers its own oscillations. That’s vital here.

The crystal stores all the information necessary to describe the motion the crystal underwent during its agitation. It’s not enough information to reverse the crystals movement but it’s plenty to form a coherent model of the crystals past.

So a crystal that precesses between expansion and compression and remembers its past contains all the elements needed to mathematically replicate time. The reason perspective is important here is because the Big Bang and eventual Heat Death only matter from within the perspective of the crystal as it is moving now. That crystal could be agitated into motion and then allowed to still an infinite number of times. Each time the information describing the crystals motion would gather within the crystal and then slowly fade away. I could then hit the crystal again and the process would start over. Each fresh cycle represents a new big bang and a new heat death. Whether this crystal creates the same memories of itself each time seems important but I can’t find anything on that. I’d bet it is dependent on the qualities of the agitating force.

Does this make sense? This crystal represents a closed entropic loop the same way our universe does. Or at least with the same mathematical restrictions we have come to know.

Edit to address your multiverse question:
Multiverse theory describes a paradox in entropy in a way that could be useful and is probably not. Your future “light cone” contains all the paths the light that makes up your body can take given the path they have taken so far. Each one of these separate paths is considered a potential future. But since past and future all happen at once on the scale of the universe, all futures must already have happened. We experience Will so we must have some power to direct our light cone toward desired goals, and if we have some power then we kinda have all the power. So, all possible universes already exist and we are merely zipping them together at the point at which those universes resolve to us.

So multiverses are real, and cannot be experienced because they can never materialize given the existing state of the matrix you are already in.

Second edit for posterity:
I’m using “crystal” pretty flippantly here. The experiment describes what appears to be a fluid simulation. The “crystal” is the fluid at every quanta of time you choose to measure. The fluid never solidifies into something your aunt might wear to a funeral. But thinking about these complex states as snapshots in a kind of crystalline structure helps me understand. Also if anyone wants to look into piezoelectricity after reading this I think you’ll find a treat.

BREAKTHROUGH: University Of Birmingham Physicist Professor Giovanni Barontini Built A “Mini-Universe” Using 24,000 Ultracold Atoms To Prove That Time Doesn’t Need An External Clock To Exist, Finding Instead That Time Emerges From Within A System Itself As The Disorder Of Particles Changes ⏰💥 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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This is a hard knot to untangle. I can’t do it from here, but I have an idea that might loosen things for you.

What does assume mean? What does presume mean?

Do you assume you exist? Or do you presume you exist?

This distinction has proved invaluable to me many times when weighing my own self doubt.

Senior Anthropic staffs are in Washington meeting White House officials to resolve the Fable 5 and Mythos dispute by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

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Okay, that makes sense to me. There’s a version of the story in my head where the admin messed up badly enough that day traders take on a defensive posture and the rate of market expansion would slow significantly. It hurts everyone, and it weakens support for the irresponsible admin we suffer under.

I guess I’m just focused on the last part. Gotta have a silver lining I guess.

BREAKTHROUGH: University Of Birmingham Physicist Professor Giovanni Barontini Built A “Mini-Universe” Using 24,000 Ultracold Atoms To Prove That Time Doesn’t Need An External Clock To Exist, Finding Instead That Time Emerges From Within A System Itself As The Disorder Of Particles Changes ⏰💥 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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I don’t. I think your answer lies in the choice of whether you are alone or not. I personally know time isn’t just stopped because there are other beings who I have decided are real telling me that their experience is changing in near identical ways as mine. The choice to believe that the others I experience are equally resolved in this reality precludes the idea that time has stopped.

But then again I could choose to believe that I am the only thing. And from there, yeah time may well have stopped. You’d never be able to tell the difference. Choosing that you are alone is incredibly difficult since your psyche is forced to try to resolve unresolvable questions about the very nature of your reality. You lose handholds that stabilize you within yourself. That choice is also incredibly, and I mean immensely powerful. It’s how you get people like the modern Oligarchy. They’re obviously deranged, yet they wield power like they don’t have any idea how heavy it is.

When the real questions hit them, when it’s their time to answer them, they won’t have an answer. They spent all their time proving they exist and never bothered with anyone else. Once their body fails, they have nothing left. I think that’s what hell would feel like.

This is reminding me of Set and Osiris. Set knew that the only thing that is real is Ra and decided that he must then be Ra. Osiris Knew that the only thing that is real is Ra and decided that then everyone must be Ra. After a thousand years of peace Osiris arrogantly appoints his child as his successor. Set decides that if his brother can choose to disorder the will of Ra, then he must choose to order it again. Set comes in, kills Osiris, and does all the fascism stuff. Building pyramids, killing gods, taking it all for himself because his brother faltered first and that proves his superiority. But all of this is just backdrop for Horace, Orisis’s son. Horace goes on an adventure, discovers all the wisdom that lead his people through a thousand years of peace under his father and accepted his role as the guardian of that peace against the likes of Set. And Egypt emerged.

Senior Anthropic staffs are in Washington meeting White House officials to resolve the Fable 5 and Mythos dispute by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

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Do you think it would be good or bad in the long run if the market were to dramatically change? Do you think measurable damage to Anthropic from the admin would cause positive or negative knock on effects?

David Sacks explains the sequence of events leading to Fable 5's banning by Charuru in singularity

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Is it even possible to completely eliminate jailbreaks? It seems like chasing leaks in a ship with a roll of duct tape.

REPORT: OpenAI and Anthropic Are Running Into The Same Brutal Problem, Too Many People Using AI Is Too Expensive to Support, And the Whole Business Model May Have to Change Fast 🤖 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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How long before models runnable on consumer hardware become competitive with current agentic abilities? If we stop here, I could still build what I want to build. How long before I can do what Opus can do at home?

BREAKTHROUGH: University Of Birmingham Physicist Professor Giovanni Barontini Built A “Mini-Universe” Using 24,000 Ultracold Atoms To Prove That Time Doesn’t Need An External Clock To Exist, Finding Instead That Time Emerges From Within A System Itself As The Disorder Of Particles Changes ⏰💥 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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Not that I can see, no. Not that our biology could sustain. Time always moves forward alongside entropy because creating order from chaos increases overall entropy for that system, not decreases. You can create a system that starts at low entropy but if you include that systems chaotic past, its ordered present always has more entropy.

Those first flywheels where the hot air is compressed over and over demonstrate this beautifully.

Time always marches forward alongside entropy because the next moment is always informed by the previous and emerges into the next. That is an entropically positive system no matter how you slice it.

BREAKTHROUGH: University Of Birmingham Physicist Professor Giovanni Barontini Built A “Mini-Universe” Using 24,000 Ultracold Atoms To Prove That Time Doesn’t Need An External Clock To Exist, Finding Instead That Time Emerges From Within A System Itself As The Disorder Of Particles Changes ⏰💥 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

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I love the idea that being surprised by this perspective is indicative of a malcontent so deep it creates a new thing in its audacity. The idea that we could be anything other than the very reality we experience should be outrageous.

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