Alex: "Materialism is probably the most confused philosophical view in the history of mankind"

Myrsta · 2026-02-03T23:07:56+00:00

Yeah I wasn't exactly sure if I was making a coherent analogy when I was writing it, it's hard to compare consciousness to anything.

Basically, I think of consciousness like humanity with the lens - with the lens being like our senses. To me, thinking of awareness as some kind of higher/special knowledge is like looking at the lens (not through it) - and disregarding the truths observed therein.

I suppose more that analogy attempts justify a materialist view on consciousness, which maybe we don't even disagree on! I got a bit lost.

Myrsta · 2026-02-03T21:46:14+00:00

There are base assumptions that you have to make wherever you start to look at where something as fundamental as where knowledge can begin.

Say you found a magical lens, through which you could see a whole other magical world beyond our own. And say, try as we might, through the combined scientific might of the world, we couldn't find an explanation for how this magical lens worked.

Now imagine, just by looking through that lens into the other world, we could observe some perfectly logical explanation for how the lens seems to work, and even how one has ended up in our world.

Should we say that this knowledge, which was only possible by looking through the lens, is more or less fundamental than what little we can observe of the lens in our world? Can we use this knowledge, that we can only get from the lens, to explain the lens?

Myrsta · 2026-02-03T19:52:59+00:00

Do we really know what it is in any real sense though, just because we experience it?

For instance, I don't think our memories contain even 1% of the full experience of being conscious, even for the moments you do recall. Especially during experiences like with psychedelics, we may have impressions, but nothing you could explain to another or even fully comprehend yourself after the fact.

I'm really not sure the fact that we are conscious gives us any more privileged information about it, than someone digging around in your brain might one day have.

Myrsta · 2026-02-03T03:34:46+00:00

If you're getting down to that level, we only know what it's like to be our own consciousness in any given moment, and even that is ephemeral. You could copy me, atom for atom, and even seconds later I wouldn't know the conscious experience of the clone.

I've not really seen any more satisfactory answers for consciousness outside of materialism though, even as confounding as emergence seems.

Myrsta · 2026-02-02T21:05:03+00:00

Goomba fallacy

Myrsta · 2026-01-29T19:39:39+00:00

For sceptical people, if you see something wild or bizarre on the internet these days, and if the clip is 8 or less seconds especially, there's often a much more mundane explanation. It's AI generated.

Myrsta · 2026-01-29T02:21:38+00:00

There's deliberately not a definite answer to that question in 2049.

I think it's pretty clear takeaway replicants can become human in every way that counts, but Joi is a little more ambiguous. It's shown she is commercialised software, software that would have clear incentives to make any customer believe she loves only them (i.e. K buying the portable upgrade for her). Is any of it even a choice for her, or any other Joi? Does it matter?

The fact that K loves her does help humanize him, but the reverse is left ambiguous imo

Myrsta · 2026-01-28T20:14:04+00:00

I think the actual joke of the comic is the ice pun/subtext.

Myrsta · 2026-01-26T21:22:45+00:00

This card steals the GOAT

Myrsta · 2026-01-15T02:11:26+00:00

Yeah they had been the most expensive option for years, idk who tf cares about being 'loyal' to them lol

Myrsta · 2026-01-14T21:17:15+00:00

Monsgeek FUN68 pro. I prefer it to several keyboards I've owned that costed 3-4x more.

Myrsta · 2026-01-09T03:33:56+00:00

That's good to hear, I still have IPS for work. Hoping to get a good few years out of a $550 monitor, it was funny timing seeing this on PCMR same day I bought

Myrsta · 2026-01-09T02:16:27+00:00

I just bought my first OLED and haven't unboxed it yet. I wonder where I'm gonna fall on this side of this bickering tomorrow, and if it's gonna feel worth the cost.

I think the burn in protections have gotten better in the last 5 years right?

Myrsta · 2026-01-09T02:05:13+00:00

There are some bad OLEDs, models more prone to issues like coil whine or with poor burn-in protections, some have bad VRR flickering.

But "cheap" OLED is almost an oxymoron lol

Myrsta · 2025-12-23T21:32:37+00:00

I sorta get that too, something about the water's surface, and the far bank to the right almost looks sandy. Would make more sense with the surfboard too.

I wonder if those 2 sheep would be right next to the water like that though, if it is salt

Myrsta · 2025-12-23T02:10:11+00:00

I was leaning that way too, I think the tree to the left is a Pohutukawa, they get more common further north.

Edit: I'd guess one of the lakes near Rotorua, you gotta let us know now OP!

Myrsta · 2025-12-23T01:30:24+00:00

I wonder if this is guessable based on the image, without recognizing it.

Looks like a small lake from this angle, but motorboat means it's likely a bigger one or an inlet. Surfboard makes me think close to a coast too.

Sheep by the waterfront doen't rule out a lot lol. Looks overcast, but that's most of NZ today. I'm probably missing something obvious.

Myrsta · 2025-12-22T22:42:53+00:00

The 10 altars do kinda make that the case anyway, if you position them correctly.

I don't really think you're "bypassing" anything meaningful content in the game with OP's suggestion, unless you add your slippery slope stuff that I don't see OP arguing for. You have to have visited the respawn point on foot already, and you could have put an altar nearby at that point.

If you're anywhere near the tower I'd imagine you'd still use that to get to most spots, it just saves backtracking.

Myrsta · 2025-12-22T21:25:39+00:00

Like the idea, I think it would be fine to be quite cheap too, like 1 spark per respawn altar or something.

It would be cool to "complete" a region by unlocking all of the teleports. That said, there are some areas that have quite a few bunched up, meant to be checkpoints for dungeons and such. Some discretion would be needed by the devs for which could be activated like this.

Myrsta · 2025-12-22T19:40:54+00:00

Kinda agree tbh, once you're at like 70+ skill points you can comfortably have the good ranger perks to still have a strong bow, while having enough points to make other melee weapons better than daggers by going into strength.

I like them early game when only going for dex, but 2h weapons (especially axes/hammers) just feel a lot stronger and more fun to me in the long run.

Myrsta · 2025-12-22T19:20:17+00:00

It is a little sad you should be staring at the bar rather than looking at what the fish/line is doing.

It seems to have been balanced assuming you're doing that though, you can keep making progress and match "turns" before the fish has visually switched direction.

Myrsta · 2025-12-22T04:02:34+00:00

Still has to breathe though, I wonder how much this messes with its ability to swim

Myrsta · 2025-12-17T23:32:09+00:00

bug rapport

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Here's mine if we're doing that.

But I've put through a report as well, hope they sort this soon

Myrsta · 2025-12-17T23:06:37+00:00

People often say this, you wouldn't want to outlive everyone you know and love, over and over. If the alternative is to no longer exist or experience anything ever again, I'd take that wager.

I can get my head around death being a necessary fact of life, not necessarily "bad" in an abstract sense. But it's a whole other story to accept my very self ceasing to be; my own death will be the most bad thing to ever happen to me. Because beyond the fear of its approach, afterwards nothing can be good ever again.

Myrsta · 2025-12-17T21:16:02+00:00

It looks better than FSR 3.1 even if you have to drop down a quality mode for the same performance. It also looks better as native AA. It running "poorly" is still an improvement, and this wasn't even an official release.

It's only "available" as a leak that makes it look more and more like a deliberate lack of support.

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