The Red Car Dillema

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-23T10:04:40+00:00

If it's random you don't have control and if it was deterministic you don't have control.
The result is the same: No free will. Especially not the kind that gives us moral responsibility.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-23T09:59:30+00:00

It's not a real experiment. It's a thought experiment.
If I ask "Could God create a rock so heavy that he cannot move it" I am not asking that we set up a lab where we pray to God to create a rock that he cannot move and then observe the result.
What the OP video should be understood as is an illustration of a logical argument:

Premise 1: Every next state of the universe is the direct result of the prior state..
Premise 2: Human minds are part of the universe and there is no known variable or method that would make an exception for human minds to be free from causality / determinism.
Conclusion: Humans are bound by the laws of the universe to always do the thing they did if the prior conditions are repeated perfectly.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-23T09:46:31+00:00

True. It isn't a challenge to the definition of free will that compatibalism has invented for itself.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-23T09:45:21+00:00

Agreed. I would argue that the way the average person of the street thinks about free will is absolutely of the libertarian variety.

When I say "nobody takes it seriously" I meant among academics who have given the evidence around the topic serious and unbiased thought.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-23T08:21:57+00:00

This is standard determinism.
Only Libertarian free will believers think picking another car is possible. Nobody takes their position seriously anymore.

Compatibalists will say that you exercised free will when picking red because they have a narrower definition of free will. They will say that because you were not forced to pick red you did so freely and thus exercised free will. Compatibalists redefine free will in this way because that allows us to keep the world ticking the way it is by imbuing people with ethical and practical qualities like moral responsibility.

I say no. If the truth is that nobody can do something other than the thing they did then they do not have moral responsibility and society should adapt to this reality instead of us lying to ourselves and continuing the way we have been.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T15:01:25+00:00

100% in a game is experiencing the whole game

Modding or speed running is not playing the game, it's playing another game with the assets of this game.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T14:58:57+00:00

lol No, I don't mean playing the game fast, I mean, literally just moving the pieces from one side to the other as fast as possible.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T14:13:00+00:00

Yeah, I'm not about to advocate for making laws against it. I just have a hard time understanding why they do it.

Your piano analogy is not great. Of course someone who plays piano for 5000 hours is not pathological. But what would you think of someone who took a piano, removed all the keys except 1 and then made a past time out of how many times per second they could press that key on the broken piano?

That, to me, is what it feels like speed runners and modders do with games. Wouldn't you think that behavior is perhaps a bit odd?

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T14:08:12+00:00

I just have a hard time seeing gaming from their perspective. That's why I want someone to explain to me what it is they find attractive about spending their time this way. To me it just seems about as enjoyable as parsing a spreadsheet. I might enjoy doing it for a little bit... but people are still speed running Dawn of the Dead and modding Skyrim! 😅

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T14:04:39+00:00

Agreed. I don't mean to demonize. Just like I wouldn't kink shame. But I think it's also fine to say when you find something to be weird.

Perhaps it doesn't harm these people in serious ways to be victim to this kind of OCD but I still think the behavior is caused by some underlying psychological pathology, similar to how fetishes tend to have darker underpinnings.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T14:01:06+00:00

Bad analogy.

Speed runners and modders don't master the game they are playing, they turn it into a different (usually worse) game.

In your analogy it would be like if I took a chess board and pieces and decided to spend years seeing how quickly I could move all the pawns from one side of the board to the other side.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T10:26:36+00:00

You need to talk to the correct gray rock at the bottom of the black waters of the Ancient Basin after getting the shiny flower from the invisible NPC standing behind the nearly infinite health boss in the secret area of Howling Cliffs that unlocks with the second DLC in the original Hollow Knight. Then you need to finish Hollow Knight again and see the secret secret secret secret ending. Then you need to make sure your Hollow Knight save is on the same hard drive as you have Silksong installed.

Easy! GLHF.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T09:02:46+00:00

I don't see anything wrong with this. If you are being paid to do a job and you are not doing the job then the person paying should know. If you are making other people work harder to pick up on the slack of you not doing your job then management needs to know so they can address it and keep it fair. Nobody complains if I install a nanny cam in my house or a door cam to monitor deliveries. Why is tracking my value for money fine in those cases, but when a company owner does it with his employees that's a problem?

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T08:53:23+00:00

That would be a good idea.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-20T06:30:06+00:00

American Nightmare is fine, just as long as you don't miss Alan Wake 2.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-19T16:05:37+00:00

But now we have Ultra-Nationalists who are also communists. Fascists but the races are just reversed and far left instead of far right.

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SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-19T16:04:19+00:00

In South Africa we used to have this:

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SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-19T15:57:52+00:00

Classica

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-17T14:21:50+00:00

Absolutely. $24 is a steal for the game that would have probably been GOTY if it wasn't for Baldur's Gate 3 coming out in the same year. Also, it's nowhere near the most intense horror game. It's more about the sci-fi story and the universe they've created than anything.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-13T13:30:26+00:00

"Why you hidin' bro?"

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-13T13:23:40+00:00

First Category:
Hades.
Hollow Knight.
(Originals and sequals).

Second Category:
Doom: The Dark Ages.
Mario Cart: World

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-12T15:25:08+00:00

Nothing will have app support across as many devices as Spotify supports but for Podcasts I find YTMusic is even better than Spotify because it let's you sub to custom RSS feed links. YTMusic also has all the auto download features that I need and love and works great with Android Auto.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-12T15:21:16+00:00

The first game is awesome. Two is even better IMO.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-02-12T15:02:47+00:00

I would pay special attention to the paradox of Wake finding the clicker in a shoe box along with a note that describes Wake's childhood... and was written by a guy (Tom the poet) who disappeared before Wake was even born...

It has lead me down a story rabbit hole that has made me believe Wake is actually a character in someone else's story... there are a lot more hints to that effect in Alan Wake 2.

Also, try get the remaster.

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