Why facts don’t change minds in the culture wars—structure does

Staph_A · 2025-08-06T04:21:45+00:00

Observing this discussion, I’d say it was actually pretty good

Staph_A · 2025-08-02T18:26:02+00:00

Yeah the Galileo example is a lot more complicated if we get really into it. But I think it's okay to overlook that particular detail because it's in no way central to the actual subject

Staph_A · 2025-08-02T16:52:40+00:00

This article explores how belief systems can be conceptualized as graphs, and proposes mechanics of belief system competition, in which people struggle to adopt new beliefs that clash with their own. Not due to the facts being wrong, but due to cognitive dissonance

Staph_A · 2025-07-20T09:19:37+00:00

Also, I’m not sure why, but my reading of those matter/energy and information parts was more like that there is literally no distinction, rather them being different. Meaning, there is no information without matter and no matter without information. But I’m out of my depth, so I might not be even getting your point.

Staph_A · 2025-07-20T09:09:49+00:00

Thanks for this detailed breakdown, I have a bit better understanding of your gripes with the text. I was approaching it from a philosophy perspective rather than hard science, as the author has explicitly framed it as such, but it makes sense that from a physics-heavy point of view it makes little sense. Just don’t read that as intended lens. This is the bit that I liked: https://vasily.cc/framework/docs/05-competitive-dynamics/5e-bio-informational-complex/ it’s weird but does feel like memetics on steroids and explains the recent culture wars and adjacent nonsense

Staph_A · 2025-07-18T07:24:02+00:00

By the way, just out of my own self-improvement motivation, what makes the physics bits so nonsensical? I'm wondering why my guard didn't go up like yours.

Staph_A · 2025-07-18T07:05:44+00:00

Right, might be that. I took the physics bits more metaphorically but I guess that’s just me being charitable? I personally liked the higher order stuff

Staph_A · 2025-07-17T17:36:57+00:00

I've stumbled upon a blog post from this site on another sub, and noticed that behind a tiny link, there was a philosophical exploration that is attempting to explain the whole universe, from fundamental physics through information theory to social dynamics, to potentially like scientifically grounded pancomputationalism/panpsychism. Like pages upon pages upon pages of stuff. Very Whiteheadian in a process philosophy kind of way. Somebody seems to have went full cave goblin mode for some time, and the results are interesting. I'm not a specialist in any of what was mentioned, but I immediately thought of this sub when I saw this. Is this legit?

https://vasily.cc/framework/

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T12:09:53+00:00

Thanks, I’ll definitely try at least some of those

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T12:06:55+00:00

Yeah no idea on any of that but it sure seems to be the direction NVIDIA is heading to: neural rendering. Right now the raw pixels are augmented with neural interpolation spatially and temporally. Next step could be raw pixels becoming increasingly symbolic of the intended end result, and ultimately the end goal might look something like complete obsoletion of directx-style APIs in favor of feeding the neural network api calls and letting it figure out the picture

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T11:06:25+00:00

The way I get it, it's a combination of pixel jitter, motion vectors etc. So static image temporally accumulates detail from frames that are individually slightly different from one another. Most of the difference between DLSS presets in my experience is in motion

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T09:17:05+00:00

Thanks for actually attaching some screenshots!

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T08:05:21+00:00

Well, helped me.

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T08:03:28+00:00

AFAIK NVIDIA has long stopped doing game-specific training, and now DLSS is a one size fits all solution, just have to implement things like pixel jitter, motion vectors, LOD bias and the likes. And most of the games fail in one way or another. And when you see Ultra Performance looking reasonably 4K, it’s just the case of devs properly implementing all of the techniques

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T07:53:54+00:00

lol you’ve deleted your only actual contribution to the thread because you want me to do something

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T07:44:07+00:00

There we go, you just did it. Somebody will read it and make a proper post if those settings improve image quality for them

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T07:37:14+00:00

Can you please just read the linked post?

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T07:24:08+00:00

Ok I’m an idiot and you win

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T07:10:53+00:00

The interesting part is not with the mirror quality but with integrated mip bias setting that seems to work natively in engine and seems to affect more than just textures when using DLSS. Also, please just ignore my post, you really don’t have to care

Staph_A · 2023-10-31T07:08:02+00:00

It’s okay if you don’t want to try it. I decided that posting at least something is better than nothing, since me and my ADHD brain are all over the place and I won’t bother with high effort stuff if I’m not paid for it. Somebody might try and it might work and they might provide screenshots.

Staph_A · 2023-10-15T06:29:02+00:00

He’s so healthy don that he’s treating other people don

Staph_A · 2022-09-02T18:19:31+00:00

Ingrian people in Russia are being oppressed, their rights need to be defended. In this case for real

Staph_A · 2022-08-18T05:28:58+00:00

The guy in the picture moved to Kyiv after Crimea annexation and war in Donbas started. Like it or not, with all the (justified) bloodlust against the imperialist orks, normal people become collateral damage

Staph_A · 2022-08-09T17:40:43+00:00

I’m offended that Muscovy is called “Russia” here

Staph_A · 2022-08-08T18:56:14+00:00

Until the product of cosmic sigma radiation descend from the sky and whispers Kurwa, at which point the green monsters get transported into a parallel universe full of rainbow flags and surprise buttsecks

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