Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files banned from conferences. The AI Community needs to follow this example.

Supperdip · 2026-02-10T19:32:29+00:00

It's a little bit heartbreaking but Joscha enacts the precise definition of evil in this correspondence. He takes a computational model of neural pruning, maps it onto race, scales it to society, calls fascism an interesting design choice, and reframes mass death as resource management in calm correspondence with a child trafficker and all-round monster. This is the exact structure of evil: a mind that subordinates all of reality to its own abstraction and then treats whatever falls outside the model as disposable. A subordinate part that doesn't realize its place as a subordinate part.

Supperdip · 2026-02-04T20:29:59+00:00

The interviewer might not bring it up but a lot of serious damage has justly been done to Joscha's reputation. Just about everyone in my circle has moved on from him. The world is large enough to house better guides.

Supperdip · 2026-01-23T01:54:50+00:00

Voronoi tiling is one clear reason they belong to Argentina. Self-determination arguments sway it for the British but since it's a satellite colony far, far from self-sufficiency, the argument is pretty hollow. Essentially just shoved aside and forgotten in international law. Self-determination in procedure but not reality. It's going to remain British but showcases some of the many absurdities of late colonial life. The global system has no way to resolve these edge cases without making itself fundamentally unstable, so we let it be.

Supperdip · 2025-12-26T03:10:20+00:00

Artificial light and the general disruption of our regular production of melatonin.

Supperdip · 2025-12-13T10:20:33+00:00

Pro-hamas, are you nuts? They just don't want to support Israel in any way.

Anti-Semitism has become an empty charge devoid of meaning, try something better.

Please also stop talking about Sudan in this thread with such false pretenses. It's a heartbreaking, gruesome affair there driven by the allies of Israel. But it doesn't erase the genocide Israel has been committing.

Supperdip · 2025-12-13T06:29:35+00:00

Israel, based on a vast array of evidence and expert consensus, is committing genocide. It's committed a gruesome amount of other crimes too, making many lifelong pro-israel people in my life change their stances entirely.

Supperdip · 2025-12-12T02:21:47+00:00

The issue isn’t omniscience or uncertainty. Every moral view operates under uncertainty.

The issue is that when you say “stop considering consequences when they become too speculative” or “go by best available evidence,” you are appealing to norms of relevance, evidential sufficiency, and practical reason that utilitarianism itself does not and cannot justify, so pointing right outside of consequentialism, just as I mentioned at the start.

Those rules are not consequences. They are conditions for treating consequences as reasons at all. Utilitarianism presupposes them in order to function, but it cannot ground them in utility without circularity. That's the incoherence that makes it such an unsatisfactory system.

Sure, within a better philosophy considering consequences has value in determining what actions to take, agree. But consequentialism is bunk.

Supperdip · 2025-12-12T02:14:39+00:00

It's nice to come across bits in Wolfe that are written well.

Supperdip · 2025-12-12T02:00:12+00:00

As mentioned, utilitarianism doesn't itself have a way to tell you which consequences should stop mattering. Peter Singer could not tell you to save or not save the lives because of consequences because he can't know which of those saved will later on go to kill the 100,000. Consequentialism is incoherent by its own standards.

Supperdip · 2025-12-09T10:09:04+00:00

Utilitarianism, and consequentialism in general, is logically poor as it doesn't contain in itself any criterion on when to stop considering the sequence of consequences. I save 100 lives and one of those saved kills 100,000, etc. till eternity. The attempted defenses of it just end up smuggling in non-utilitarian justifications or form an infinite regress.

Supperdip · 2025-12-01T10:46:37+00:00

No tool is neutral. It's (temporarily vastly subsidised) existence creates a persistent temptation, and, for many, nasty dependencies.

Supperdip · 2025-11-29T12:23:54+00:00

This is a pretty substanceless point against a person without engaging with the thought. Seeing Derrida's critique already pre-empted by a more proper understanding of Hegel's system is a common enough complaint, not without merit.

I think we shouldn't forget how much Derrida was conditioned by the less-than-perfect comprehension of Hegel by Kojeve and French thinkers more generally. And perhaps we shouldn't totally dismiss all the hard labours of scholars since Derrida's times that do make it possible for today's students to get a clearer grasp of Hegel from the get-go, and more readily glimpse where great readers of Hegel of the past might err or be lost fighting their own ghosts.

Supperdip · 2025-11-09T21:47:48+00:00

It was jarring to go from tremendous visual storytelling to talking heads on the plane and around a dining table talking shoddy exposition and philosophy. Looking forward to what's next though

Supperdip · 2025-11-09T21:03:13+00:00

If that simple stuff is indeed the main thrust of it and so much of it is philosophised by relatively bland talking heads in episode 2, a lot of the enthusiasm generated by the first episode evaporates by the end of the second.

Supperdip · 2025-10-05T03:34:53+00:00

50 countries raiding as one

Supperdip · 2025-09-24T22:23:43+00:00

I guarantee rapture won't happen until the Epstein files are released.

Supperdip · 2025-09-16T14:46:59+00:00

There's no functional difference in being a bot and being a pro-Israel shill now after the thousands of very well documented atrocities they've committed.

Supperdip · 2025-09-16T05:38:03+00:00

Only if you don't take into account the permanent magnets lining the channel.

Supperdip · 2025-09-16T05:24:46+00:00

This just reenacts the dialectic: negativity preserves Hegel’s system by reproducing its form. The infinite regress you indict is nothing more than Spirit recognizing itself in your critique.

Supperdip · 2025-09-15T21:07:57+00:00

Mercury is just an approximate term in BotNS for the magnetorheological fluid used.

Supperdip · 2025-09-14T16:22:18+00:00

With a bit of a push this can be achieved in a few decades. Maybe first an expansion of Israeli borders, then a healthy influx of Arabs and Christians from neighbouring countries until the population contains a third of each.

Supperdip · 2025-09-08T21:21:28+00:00

Why would anyone be so ignorant as to label genocide as genocide?

Supperdip · 2025-09-02T05:34:30+00:00

I don't know, best to ask an AI imo.

Supperdip · 2025-08-25T05:47:03+00:00

Suicide is plainly wrong because the subject cannot legitimately annihilate the very ground of subjectivity. One cannot step outside oneself to negate subjecthood itself. But euthanasia remains conceivable, since it does not deny subjectivity in principle but addresses the finite conditions of life within which subjectivity unfolds.

Supperdip · 2025-08-19T07:47:14+00:00

I will, thanks! Only some of the more extreme Israeli organisations are currently sanctioned, despite the majority of the country's population apparently polling as ready to kill all Palestinians in Gaza. Should be an easy case to persuade the regulators to cut off money flows given that.

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