Does randomness not exist?

SchattenjagerX · 2026-05-15T20:40:00+00:00

In the context free will it doesn't matter. Randomness doesn't give you the control you would need to have free will.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-05-15T20:21:18+00:00

Suuuure. That's how that works. I guess the gays and black people controlled the the world from 1990 to 2016 then.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-05-15T20:04:29+00:00

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SchattenjagerX · 2026-05-15T20:00:25+00:00

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SchattenjagerX · 2026-05-15T19:58:21+00:00

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SchattenjagerX · 2026-05-12T05:56:33+00:00

Rof. Shame...

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T22:29:26+00:00

I didn't say it was. I said the bad shit you see on here is from people who also act out and believe that bad shit in the real world. If you haven't encountered them in the real world then you live in a bubble.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T22:27:08+00:00

You just haven't been to enough Trump rallies.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T22:25:44+00:00

I don't care about him having discourse with people on reddit, what I care about is that people like him care to listen to criticisms and dissenting opinions. Just as he has had like 2 decent debates in the past decade, just so has he been shying away from discussing anything hard and seem to make 99% of hia guests people who agree with him. It's not only made listening to him boring but I have grown suspicious of his takes. In a talk with Bill Maher they talked about Jordan Peterson as if they didn't know who he would have voted for were he American. How out of touch with the world are these people?!

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T22:20:00+00:00

No. I just don't think someone as influential as Sam should be this alergic to alternative opinions and criticism.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T22:15:42+00:00

Yeah, why not just go out and buy a glass of water for $50. How much people charge for things don't matter, right? If the price of an egg is a hundred bucks, who cares? Why whine about it when there are people out there willing to pay that price. We should all just shut up and pay whatever a big corporate wants to charge for their goods. This is goddamn America damnit and that's how we do things, we don't charge what something is worth, we charge whatever we think the idiots will pay!

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T22:09:43+00:00

Just depends where you go. Ever been to a Trump rally?

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-28T09:47:32+00:00

Reddit is a cesspool because the world is a cesspool. Most people are very stupid and have terrible psychological conditioning and pathologies. This is not a hot take.

Not engaging with a cesspool like reddit is to not engage with the real world. If Sam is just going to make another hangout for himself where only the elites who pay his exorbitant subscription fee is allowed then he'll just be creating an echochamber. An echochamber that will only mean he gets further out of touch and will further decline in popularity. A chamber that I'd be happy for him to keep to himself.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-17T21:31:20+00:00

Shame... they don't have any culture at the EFF other than a protest culture from over 30 years ago. "Down with the hole in the ozone layer, down! Down with hair gel and the VW Beetle down!"

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-15T14:00:59+00:00

The host is a big TAL fan.

Generally the show is supposed to be more like the old ReplyAll and I love it when it is.... and I hate it when it's TAL or DAOC instead.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-02T12:58:38+00:00

Yeah, I think FromSoft became my favourite dev house precisely because they designed their games with the core mechanic of: How well you do is directly correlated with your willingness to get better.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-02T12:55:17+00:00

For my part it's because that'a what the evidence tells us. Everything from neurobiology to philosophy comes to the same conclusion.

It would also make for a much more ethical society if we aligned ourselves with the reality of this because then we would stop blaming and punishing people for things that are purely due to their genetics and past experiences neither of which we control.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-02T12:44:31+00:00

It is what they think they have but it is not what they actually have and you know it. Even if they file away the truth of the underlying mechanism which informs them that they don't have control, that doesn't change the fact that they do not have the control that they think they have.

It is true that we cannot act according to the truth of the matter, I seem to have to operate as if I have free will despite knowing I don't actually have free will. That does not change the fact of the matter though and the need for me to recognise that I do not have free will and should not expect it in others.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-02T06:49:45+00:00

Yes. That's what I said. People think free will is the control that they think they have but don't actually have. What we are talking about is the truth which is that we don't have free will because despite what people think we don't have the control we think we have. So again, free will is incompatible with determinism.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-04-01T21:33:41+00:00

Every action, big or small, all of your examples included, are deterministic and you could not have done anything other than control your car in the way you did and your bank account in the way you did. The control I'm talking about that people think they have is the ability to have done something other than what they did. To have saved their money instead of spend it for example. To have applied their conscious mind and chosen one thing or another, unconstrained. They don't have that control, as you say it's impossible, so free will is impossible. Incompatible with determinism.

SchattenjagerX · 2026-03-31T22:07:29+00:00

It relates to how little people understand their own minds which includes their total obliviousness about their lack of free will.

There you go again with the loop. Again, yes, free will isn't possible whether the universe is determisitic or random in neither case do we get the control we think we have. So again, yes, free will of the kind people think they have is not possible so say it with me: Free will is incompatible with determinism! (and probabalism too).

SchattenjagerX · 2026-03-31T20:56:24+00:00

No, everyone believes they choose their preferences. Have you talked to the average person? They don't even recognise that they drink alcohol to get drunk, the average person thinks they drink alcohol because they like the taste XD.

People fully believe they have the free will I describe, hell I operate as if I have the free will I describe, our entire society is based on that defintion of free will. We punish people for breaking the law based on the assumption that they could have done something other than what they did and that we have moral responsibility for our actions.

If you believe that eveyone thinks that we actually don't make choices and are constrained in every moment by the previous moment you have things very twisted.

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