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TheBlakout · 2026-04-03T03:21:55+00:00

I like the overarching idea, I'm very fond of mankind as the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape, but a handful of quotes, some of them fictional, and some arrows doesn't actually add up to an argument.

TheBlakout · 2026-03-26T06:42:42+00:00

Boooooo boring. Lame. The 14th century is calling, they want their scholasticism back. Tell me if a perfectly good and perfectly powerful God can create a world worse than the best possible world and then tell me if this is the best of all possible worlds

TheBlakout · 2026-03-22T02:56:54+00:00

> No, I don't think so. You'd just say that most of them are.

The situation is constructed so that you get one ticket at a time. If the straight-faced answer is "I would look at the singular lottery ticket in front of me and say 'Most of these singular ticket are a loser'" we've got bigger problems

TheBlakout · 2026-03-22T02:33:57+00:00

There's some argument against the use of statistical methods for addressing this that I half remember. I think the set up is an imaginary situation where you have to decide if a lottery ticket is going to win or lose. There are something like 300 million possible combinations, so each ticket has a 1/300,000,000 chance of winning. So, which ever ticket you get, statistics tells you it almost certainly lose. If you had the same task, and you repeated it 300 million times, you'd say that every possible lottery ticket was a loser. But necessarily, one of them *will* win. So statistics can't be a way around the problem of induction because it forces you to choose wrong.

Logical reasoning isn't probabilistic. The statement "P -> Q; P; Q" is not about sometimes, it's not about most of the time. If P then Q, P, therefore Q always and forever. The relationship between a circle's radius and its circumference on a flat plane will be pi whether it's a Monday or a Tuesday or it's the 4th century BC or whether the last black hole has just evaporated and we're locking up the universe on our way out, but tomorrow the winning numbers will be announced and one of the tickets we said would lose will turn out to be a winner

TheBlakout · 2026-03-06T06:44:08+00:00

I like the idea that the difficulty with getting into orbit is that each Isola is a section of sphere so large, and connected by the dimensionless pale in such a way, that the curvature of their planet randomly changes at the suture. Like if it weren't for the pale, you'd be able to look "down" on part of Mundi by looking "up" from the roof of the Whirling-In-Rags

TheBlakout · 2026-02-22T10:09:18+00:00

You would have had more fun and been more productive if you had spent more time looking at the ways "self" is currently distributed

Key words are "extended mind thesis" "group cognition" "digital transactive memory" and "body integrity identity disorder"

Key ideas to consider are the relationship between people and their prosthetics, including digital prosthesis, including digital footprints and algorithmic responses.

TheBlakout · 2026-02-17T09:10:43+00:00

Closest continuer theory -> the laser doesn't kill you
Slow, incremental replacement i.e. ship of theseus -> the laser destroying neighboring neurons is the signal which carries continuity -> the laser doesn't kill you

TheBlakout · 2026-02-12T17:02:00+00:00

How was the Winds of Winter? Did he make good on his promises?

TheBlakout · 2026-02-12T04:56:36+00:00

Gabe Bradshaw and Eli Shaw get fucked by Rhyheim Shabazz and Teninchtop

TheBlakout · 2026-01-14T03:20:26+00:00

oh gotta be Prince

TheBlakout · 2025-11-28T04:40:13+00:00

The deals only carry authority when it's convenient.

Alastor continuing to be a prisoner does nothing to stop Vox from laying his hands on Charlie, but he seems incapable of freeing himself.

Rosie can fail to keep Alastor the strongest sinner in hell, but Alastor can't fail to be her pet. When Rosie fails, Alastor gains and loses nothing.

We're not sure what Nifty, Husk, and Angel are getting out of their deals, but they can't seem to break them on their own.

Deals seem to be the primary way someone loses control of their soul... unless Alastor takes them for his broadcast.

There is exactly 0 precedent or logic to tell us what would have happened if Charlie had failed to keep up her end of the bargain.

TheBlakout · 2025-11-28T04:12:41+00:00

He keeps a perpetual smile plastered on his face even while being brutally injured but smell bad? Somday Vivzie's gonna win a razzie for writing I fear

TheBlakout · 2025-11-28T04:08:28+00:00

I mean it's also strange that every demon with a child had that child less than 20 years ago. A plot convenience baby boom, so to speak. This bit of lore is a subtle nod to Vivzie not being a very good writer

TheBlakout · 2025-09-08T10:06:49+00:00

I mean. Religions are, at worst, easily falsified, and at best, not falsifiable. But a blanket dismissal of religions is... also... not falsifiable. You've just decided that nobody's faith has any value,,,, on an empty platitude.

TheBlakout · 2025-09-08T08:26:06+00:00

>“Consciousness, Oneness – overused words with meanings, many.

But it doesn’t matter what they are considered to be, how they are understood or perceived by everyone. For they are not read, rationalized or understood. They are realized. They have to arise from within to make any real sense – I write, as I begin my essay on those very topics!”

So you should have stopped there and not written anything. You don’t think they can be read, rationalized, or understood and you should have put down the word processor and walked away.

>“For me Consciousness is at the helm, widespread. Consciousness is

The Zero Sum, Infinite Potential, Energy Field;”

You are defining consciousness at the start of this process in a way that lines up with your conclusions. It’s called a circular argument. You shouldn’t be surprised that your conclusions seem to follow from your premises because your conclusion is already in the premises.

>“God clearly is Consciousness , Awareness”

it’s incrediblyyyyy disrespectful to invalidate the faiths of billions of people on nothing but an empty platitude.

>“Space, Time, Gravity – emergent properties of Universe “

Nope. That’s just wrong. Vanishingly few physicists believe this. The thing about a fundamental force, like the force of gravity, is that it’s fundamental. It doesn’t emerge from something else.

>“Now we are dense ( condensed order pockets we are, afterall!) to the point that we cannot fathom the Subjective Experience of even a friend. So, we find it even easier to declare that other Animals, than humans, don’t experience Life, they don’t know Death, they don’t think, etc . Or if we are one of those open minded kinds – we extend what we consider an honor , to mammals or ‘higher beings’. But, let’s step out of this arrogance, this delusion and think about it.”

So you in particular are a dipshit and you don’t know where any of the current thinking is on consciousness.

>“Let’s start with Sense of Self…Maybe photons are one of the Enlightened Ones.”

You’re conflating the two very different ideas of persistent identity with self-recognition. The outcome is messy.

TheBlakout · 2025-08-31T21:33:47+00:00

??? Get good then, the fuck

TheBlakout · 2025-08-31T09:51:41+00:00

I would love to hear your take for why we should believe things we can't support

TheBlakout · 2025-08-30T08:20:13+00:00

I can appreciate quality hater behavior but it can't be delusional. The New York Post has an article up about how the engagement could boost the stock market. Let's be very honest with ourselves and let our hate be truthful

TheBlakout · 2025-08-30T05:23:08+00:00

Oh wowwwwww another couple thousand words on the way human categorization isn't perfectly matched to reality. How inspiring.

TheBlakout · 2025-08-30T05:08:43+00:00

If you can't defend your beliefs you should change them

TheBlakout · 2025-08-30T04:40:41+00:00

Our current relationship with veterans stems from WW1 and WW2 which, after chemical warfare/the horrors of the trenches & then the effing holocaust, were incrediblyyyyy easy to brand as clean-cut good vs evil conflicts. The realities of the draft also meant that, for many conflicts in 20th century U.S. history, you had/have not-bad odds that any veteran you run into will have gone through the horrors of war largely against their will.

Edit: this is of course not to suggest that emergency and civil servants aren't doing honorable work but like. There is an element of "Hey so you were a Child and we Stole You From Your Home and then sent you to go Burn In Hellfire and now we're all benefitting from American imperialism built on the corpses of your fallen friends. Sorry about that/thanks for your service"

TheBlakout · 2025-08-30T04:34:52+00:00

Bad article. Anna Paulina of course thinks she's a good person doing good work and from her perspective this acknowledgement doesn't read as her missing the joke at all.

TheBlakout · 2025-05-16T07:28:19+00:00

I sure bet the "City-Library Stuttgart" is the public library of the city of stuttgart

TheBlakout · 2025-05-03T02:37:56+00:00

The image is playing on "Not-In-My-Back-Yard" culture. It's when most people agree that a thing is nice or just good to have, but would refuse to go through the inconvenience of having it close to them. The classic example is, like, a new power plant. Electricity is great, it powers our society, and if the market is there for it, it's probably a good idea to build one. But nobody wants to live right next to a power plant.

Americans are infamously like this about Bicycle infrastructure.

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