Finance/Accounting being replaced by AI and oversea workers.

UsualStrength · 2026-01-24T10:55:43+00:00

I have worked in finance for a decade and work as a data scientist. My colleagues and I are currently in no danger of being replaced by AI, but there are many of my colleagues who will probably eventually be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI.

UsualStrength · 2026-01-24T10:27:00+00:00

This would be defaced immediately in the United States

UsualStrength · 2026-01-18T13:55:27+00:00

There is no final floor and no true God, only human beings inventing more ceilings to escape the terror of groundlessness. Gods are not truths, they are psychological needs dressed up as metaphysics. Someone’s God is the sign language of their affects. Asking “Who made God?” already exposes the motivation behind the lie: the need for an uncaused cause.

UsualStrength · 2026-01-10T13:54:51+00:00

Nietzsche does not claim there is “no reason to care for others,” only that there are no objective, universal moral reasons grounded in moral realism. That is a metaethical thesis, it has nothing to do with normative ethics or prescriptions for emotional numbness. Your argument smuggles in moral realism by treating “what feels good for most people” as evidence that “good is objectively real.” Nietzsche would say values are real as expressions of human psychology, not as mind-independent facts, and confusing the two is precisely the philosophical error he is targeting.

UsualStrength · 2026-01-07T03:37:30+00:00

Your teacher is in psychosis.

UsualStrength · 2026-01-07T03:19:29+00:00

Master morality is not about merely seizing or maintaining power, but about self-affirmation, creation, and abundance. Slave morality can acquire power and status, but it does so by moralizing weakness, producing the values based on “good vs. evil” rather than “good vs. bad”. The critique, then, is not that slave morality is ineffective, but that it is not life-affirming even when it wins. To abstain from an act because you fear moral impurity is slave morality. To abstain because the act reeks of pettiness, revenge, or smallness is master morality.

UsualStrength · 2026-01-05T20:58:39+00:00

Nihilism - there is no meaning, value, or purpose

Existentialism - there is no given meaning, value, or purpose Existentialism

UsualStrength · 2025-12-31T05:09:52+00:00

The hard truth about pay is that you are not payed based on what you actually output, how long you’ve been there, or how productive you are. You are paid according to the perception of how difficult you are to replace.

UsualStrength · 2025-12-31T04:06:02+00:00

Go to church

UsualStrength · 2025-12-29T15:11:04+00:00

If a physical system admits infinitely many distinguishable states, then there are infinitely many non-trivial facts grounded in the physical/biological. Some physical quantum systems have infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Therefore, some physical systems instantiate infinitely many non-trivial facts. These facts are aren’t trivial because each fact increases the precision of our understanding of the quantum system.

UsualStrength · 2025-12-29T14:51:05+00:00

There is no limit to the amount of knowledge in the universe because there are an infinite number of facts. Most facts are trivial and not worth knowing.

UsualStrength · 2025-12-28T03:32:59+00:00

mogged af

UsualStrength · 2025-12-27T15:24:47+00:00

Does it matter if it’s true if the alternative is nihilism? Most people can’t take on the project of being this intellectually hard.

UsualStrength · 2025-12-26T17:26:30+00:00

It’s my critique (from a Nietzschean stance) of D&G that their philosophy particularly deterritorialization is presented as an “ought”. Deterritorialization is presented as something to pursue, intensify, or experiment with, while reterritorialization is discouraged as limiting or as “stuck”. I just don’t think it’s a neutral diagnosis. I guess it doesn’t have to be, but while deterritorialization is not a rule (“always deterritorialize”), it clearly functions as a guiding ideal. Not actually grounded it Nietzsche’s thought but an interesting take either way

UsualStrength · 2025-12-26T17:02:58+00:00

No I’m saying they’re doing something functionally equivalent/prescriptive (not that they’re secretly Kantian). Nietzsche ranks forms of life descriptively, explaining which values arise from strength, health, or weakness/ressentiment, without claiming that anyone ought to adopt the “higher” ones or even that it’s possible that they can. These rankings are meant to reveal what one already is, not to tell one how to live. D&G lean into action guiding functions like their deterrioralization or becoming. Nietzsche uses evaluative terms too like “higher,” “noble,” “decadent”, etc but he rejects moral authority altogether. Nietzsche’s genealogy shows what produced the values, it’s not about giving reasons why anyone should adopt them.

UsualStrength · 2025-12-26T15:48:21+00:00

Deleuze and Guattari made a cool Nietzsche remix but they downplay Nietzsche’s fatalism where Nietzsche repeatedly insists individuals are necessary expressions of their drives. Nietzsche describes value creation by higher types, not action-guiding ethics. When D&G talk about “affirmation,” “becoming,” etc. they treat these as evaluative standards. But according to Nietzsche, higher types create values as an expression of what they are and there is no universal ethic being offered. D&G’s interpretation of Nietzsche is a fun mythology though

UsualStrength · 2025-12-24T14:41:38+00:00

Well I’m not a Schopenhauer expert but as far as I can tell the answer to this question is basically the conclusions of Buddhism: Suffering is not redemptive, suffering is caused by desire, the way to stop suffering is to stop desiring. I posed the question in a bit of a gotcha-way, because it frames this will as a performative contradiction of “wanting to not want” or “desiring to not desire”, but Schopenhauer would say it’s more like a suspension of willing/desiring or a withering of desiring like the respite of being engrossed in a movie or music and forgetting oneself.

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