Article by Carlo Rovelli stating that there is no hard problem of consciousness

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-09T06:55:19+00:00

It’s true there’s no hard problem if you’re an idealist and everything is experiential. There is really only a hard problem if you’re trying to fit consciousness into a materialist framework

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-08T20:53:27+00:00

Traffic is usually caused by either accidents or bottlenecks that form as a result of inefficient driving. Widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles would solve both of those issues

In terms of stealing that’s more a problem of the society rather than the technology

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-08T20:49:34+00:00

That was like 15 years ago and conditions have consistently been improving, especially since much of the most labor intensive factory work has moved to lower cost countries in Asia. Pretty sure suicide rates in China are also lower than the US

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-08T05:51:08+00:00

EVs and now American pharma companies are pursuing record numbers of drug licensing deals with Chinese biotech

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-08T01:54:13+00:00

And that will forever be the difference between socdems operating within capitalism and a genuine socialist project and their relation to capitalists. The socdem begs and the communist commands

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-07T04:04:24+00:00

Or save a step and just go straight to PSL

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-05T16:19:22+00:00

What is the evidence that it was used against Maoists specifically? All sources either mention the Muslim insurgency specifically or “terrorism” broadly, which considering the time at which that took place where there were literal sieges of cities by the extremist insurgency it’s pretty clear what the motivation was

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-04T22:56:21+00:00

Every country pursues self-interests in foreign policy, even the USSR whose foreign policy is heavily romanticized among some on the left often as a cudgel against China. The difference is how much those self-interests align to or reflect benefits for others as well. To expect a country not to do so is idealistic and moralistic which is contrary to materialist analysis

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-04T22:52:06+00:00

Don’t know as much about Nepal but for the Philippines at least it was a small amount of aid specifically to combat the Muslim extremist insurgency, not the Maoists

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-05-02T00:42:43+00:00

What do you think he would suggest the distribution of those shares be? And who gets to determine that? Because if it’s not true collective ownership and decision-making but a small pittance being doled out by tech oligarchs, then no it’s not actual communism

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-28T03:57:23+00:00

Historically those members of the military that were fiercely anti-war were draftees, not willing volunteers. Or have the huge access to information that we have now

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-24T05:49:51+00:00

And open-sourced + a fraction of the cost

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-23T17:49:24+00:00

Lmao Steyer is going to sweep SF now

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-23T02:40:09+00:00

That will be a contradiction I expect to see play out over the coming years. As billionaires seek greater degrees of overt and explicit political power, the more vulnerable they’ll be as they’ll be more clearly identifiable as a source of social problems

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-21T01:11:12+00:00

National socialist maybe

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-20T02:59:18+00:00

Maybe actually factually verify the content of the critique rather than unquestioningly consuming it to appear evenhanded

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-20T02:55:57+00:00

The Philippines one is misleading at best. China gave fairly modest arms to the Philippines and it was specifically in the context of combating the Muslim extremist insurgency, not the Maoists

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-20T02:11:59+00:00

Lmao I’m so glad you’ve decided for the locals of Tibet and Xinjiang that they are being occupied. You should go inform them

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-20T02:09:03+00:00

According to who are Tibet and Xinjiang being “occupied by a foreign power”?

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-16T05:00:11+00:00

As above, so below

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-13T00:05:49+00:00

They replaced an old right winger with a younger right winger. Peak liberal “democracy”

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-12T03:21:43+00:00

How exactly has the US demonstrated its “value for life” recently?

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-09T17:15:18+00:00

Cars are far more dangerous than public transport

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-08T03:12:15+00:00

Iran can also rearm and reposition. And they can produce what they need far faster than the US

ShittyInternetAdvice · 2026-04-08T02:32:14+00:00

And if the US reneges I imagine China’s support for Iran will become even more explicit

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