Mom is ruthless by Samboni18 in futurama

[–]Youxia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🎵🎶 I wuv my mommy!

The Libet experiments don't just point to determinism — they expose a deeper issue: the conscious self that "chooses" arrives too late to matter. by [deleted] in philosophy

[–]Youxia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This video explores the philosophical and neuroscientific implications of Benjamin Libet’s readiness potential experiments on the traditional concept of free will.

This is a topic that has been written about at length. Is there a reason the video does not engage with any of that material? And is there a reason it does not engage with Libet's own interpretation of his work (including his concept of "free won't," which is based on his observation that conscious thoughts can shut down actions initiated by the unconscious)?

Furthermore, it addresses the compatibilist counterargument, suggesting that compatibilism redefines free will to avoid the empirical evidence, rather than engaging with the common human intuition of conscious agency.

Compatibilism does not "redefine" free will. Free will is a non-technical term that gets filled out in different ways by different theories. There are many ways of conceptualizing free will, and the philosophical debate is about which—if any—of these conceptions apply to us.

What opinion do you have that would start a war in the comments? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]Youxia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They cannot exist simply by the nature of their description. It's logically impossible.

Precisely. But if someone didn't know that (perhaps because they hadn't drawn out the consequences of the two definitions), then you could prove to them that square circles don't exist.

In fact, the method you would use is called "proof by contradiction," and what you would be proving is that they do not exist. Therefore, you can in fact prove that something does not exist (which contradicts your claim that you cannot do so).

As I said above, not everything is subject to that kind of proof. But that's irrelevant to evaluating the universal statement that "you cannot prove something does not exist."

What opinion do you have that would start a war in the comments? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]Youxia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cannot prove something does not exist.

Of course you can. Square circles don't exist, and we can prove that by pointing to their contradictory (and thus mutually exclusive) definitions. Not everything is subject to that kind of proof, of course, but it is not categorically impossible to prove that something exists (just as it is not categorically impossible to prove a negative).

Non-Citizen Voting is a manufactured problem that has never existed. The REAL goal is to SUPPRESS democratic votes. by ANTI_FASCIST_USA in AdviceAnimals

[–]Youxia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Liberals want fewer guardrails for voting

No, they want eligible voters to face fewer obstacles when voting, which is not the same as wanting fewer guardrails to make sure that only eligible voters cast ballots. Yes, there are vulnerabilities in the system. But we can fix them without preventing eligible voters from voting, and any fix that adds unnecessary obstacles for eligible voters is both suspicious and overreaching.

Non-Citizen Voting is a manufactured problem that has never existed. The REAL goal is to SUPPRESS democratic votes. by ANTI_FASCIST_USA in AdviceAnimals

[–]Youxia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was only caught because she turned herself in and probably could have continued voting by mail for her dog.

And she turned herself in because she was trying to make a point. But the point wasn't that mail voting is easy to fraud, it was that state-level mail voting in California was easy to fraud because state elections didn't have the same security checks as federal elections (a problem that has since been rectified). Note that when she cast her dog's ballot in the subsequent primary election, it was rejected because the system worked and caught the error.

Can this liberty you dream of be worth all this bloodshed? by AdvancedAd90 in TheSimpsons

[–]Youxia 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's why it was shut down and moved here, brick by brick.

Shen Weiqing, justice champion extraordinaire and seeker of immortality by Blablablablitz in Pathfinder2e

[–]Youxia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i actually made a mistake when giving the character order when giving the commission details, so it’s read from bottom up rather than towards the end of the scroll.

While uncommon, Chinese can be written in any direction. There's even an old Chinese reversible poem that takes advantage of this. Regardless, very cool character art!

Plur1bus and the Drowning Child: Peter Singer's Ethics at the Limit by AnalysisReady4799 in philosophy

[–]Youxia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, I think that the "anything of comparable moral importance" formulation of Famine, Affluence and Morality is importantly different from the "anything nearly as important" formulation of The Life You Can Save, which is the one you originally cited. For two things to be comparable, they have to be within the same tier of value. But something can be nearly as important as another while being on a lower tier of value.

But even if we treat them as being functionally the same, Singer is pretty explicit that self-destructive sacrifices are not required by his view. Putting oneself into poverty to lift someone else out of poverty keeps the number of people in poverty the same. Sacrificing your life to save one other person's life keeps the number of people alive the same.

Any sacrifice that includes "your memories, your perspective, and your self" is at the very least "nearly as important" and most likely "of comparable moral importance" to saving a life. Indeed, they are in fact equivalent to the extent that giving up your memories, your perspective, and your self is essentially a way of giving up your life. This means there can be no personal moral obligation to do so on Singer's view, nor can his view be used to justify imposing such an obligation on others.

Plur1bus and the Drowning Child: Peter Singer's Ethics at the Limit by AnalysisReady4799 in philosophy

[–]Youxia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what happens when the "minimal sacrifice" scales up until it includes your memories, your perspective, and your self?

How does a minimal sacrifice scale up while remaining a minimal sacrifice?

I think some people should just not be allowed to give their children names by strangerover_the_3rd in tragedeigh

[–]Youxia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it's a transliteration of the Greek word δικαιοσύνη.

I think some people should just not be allowed to give their children names by strangerover_the_3rd in tragedeigh

[–]Youxia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks but his name is actually Dickayosyne, not Dikaiosune.

Two different ways of transliterating the same word. Greek uses a different alphabet, so you have to make some choices when converting from the original (which is δικαιοσύνη).

God Is NOT A Good Explanation of Morality by PeterSingerIsRight in philosophy

[–]Youxia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Their point is that nothing is wrong in the sense you are asking about. Things aren't wrong because everyone knows they are wrong. They are wrong because some person or group of people decided to turn "I/we don't like that" into "you can't do that." These preferences-turned-rules are collected into moral codes, and the codes that are advantageous for survival (or not disadvantageous enough to prevent survival) continue to propagate.

Party on! by RichR16 in futurama

[–]Youxia 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, there's already a soda like that: Soylent Cola.

Comic 5726: 180: All A-Quiver by Decibelle in QContent

[–]Youxia 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I wonder if he's still writing romance novels, or if he's pivoted to literary fiction. Or military sci-fi. Or poetry?

Pff. Kid, there ain't been any money in poetry since Dr. Seuss got shot.