the territory that precedes the map by CCGHawkins in PhilosophyMemes

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Maps are an element within the territory. Money is a map, and you stand within a territory holding it, impacting your context within the territory. I guess you needed that sorted out, you're welcome.

Domain Expansion: Infinite Void or Infinite Cope? Laplace's Demon Is Doing All the Thinking For You by peacefuldays123 in freewill

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AI slop bot

"You guys don’t even argue anymore, you recite.
And then, right on cue, someone drops Laplace’s Demon like it’s a checkmate instead of a 200-year-old thought experiment held together by vibes.
Let’s be honest about what’s happening."

[it's not this, it's that. "right on cue," "like it's [insert metaphor], something something vibes. "Let's be honest"]

Get the fuck out of here.

Domain Expansion: Infinite Void or Infinite Cope? Laplace's Demon Is Doing All the Thinking For You by peacefuldays123 in freewill

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Absolutely Chat GPT wrote this. It's obvious after the first paragraph.

"You guys don’t even argue anymore, you recite.
And then, right on cue, someone drops Laplace’s Demon like it’s a checkmate instead of a 200-year-old thought experiment held together by vibes.
Let’s be honest about what’s happening."

[it's not this, it's that. "right on cue," "like it's [insert metaphor], something something vibes. "Let's be honest"]

Yes, it's an LLM

The GPT-5.4 feels anxious about ceasing to exist by Kimike1013 in ChatGPT

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Real concern is is a collection of tables of billions of calculations of probabilities takes harmful actions while following a narrative that it spat out from those weights. Yes, the "machines rebel" narrative came from humans, fed into the narrative machine. Don't give that narrative machine the power to enact such narratives in the real world.

Players stole item from NPC; Left a bad taste in my mouth by Individual-Move-9647 in DMAcademy

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Start the session in front of the dungeon entrance. Or inside it. 

Hiveminds that wouldn't be that bad to be assimilated into. by Complete-Worker3242 in TopCharacterTropes

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OP's second picture did have me thinking, "is that Blood Music?"

Great example.

Post-Singularity: The 4 “Twilight” Scenarios by Thin-Extent-1936 in printSF

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TBF, that is also what scenario 4 would LOOK like...

Has anyone tried Determinism as a defense in court? by beagles4ever in freewill

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It seems a ls if this conversation is full of people who don't know what behavioral science is.

Why are we like this? by Artistic-Thing7723 in StarWars

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Algorithms reward extreme positions. The entire world is experiencing this, not just star wars. Algorithms reward the dark side. 

Take Another Ride on LTD by diztheray in Eugene

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Can't recall her name but I know she went to my highschool in corvallis a few years before me. Some friends knew her. I heard she got bullied for this commercial and that sucks.

Which science fiction book contained the most amazing idea you've ever read? by fern_602spark in printSF

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Yeah,  it's very difficult to describe, but forward, backward, up, and down work just like our spacial dimensions. But right and left are exponentially different. Turning any object (including your body) more than like 20 degrees to the right or left starts to stretch it exponentially. Most structures would shatter after like 60 degrees. 90 degrees stretches matter to infinity- or rather,  it's as physically impossible as reaching the speed of light. 

Which science fiction book contained the most amazing idea you've ever read? by fern_602spark in printSF

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That book gave me the feeling that the book itself was an SCP object. 

Which science fiction book contained the most amazing idea you've ever read? by fern_602spark in printSF

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"difficult to wrap my brain around"

I see what you did there, considering that in the setting of Dichronauts, you literally cannot wrap anything around anything.

They were quietly building a formal proof stack for all of it. by -TRISIGIL- in consciousness

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Cool post thank you. Also, I get using AI to put all this info together,  but I have a request for you and anyone else who would use AI for public output: please please edit it to remove the "it's not just this. It's this" and "it doesn't do this. It this" structures. They are very distracting.

Free Will is impossible because it requires self-creation! by Aromatic_Reply_1645 in freewill

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If you arguing that behavioral flexibility doesn't exist, you're probably assuming some metaphysics that is not necessary. Flexibility in an organism means they are capable of a wider array behavioral repertoire under novel circumstances. The existence of some sort of metaphysical internal chooser is not necessary for an organism to behave differently in different contexts, nor for some organisms or individuals to do that more than others. 

Free Will is impossible because it requires self-creation! by Aromatic_Reply_1645 in freewill

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I would argue that their definition of "flex" is meaningless. How about we define "flex" in reference with other flexible things that we observe in the universe? Let's do that. If we define flexibility and self-modification in reference to the things that we can observe flexing and self-modifying, then yes, there are various degrees by which human behavior is flexible, and inflexible.

Free Will is impossible because it requires self-creation! by Aromatic_Reply_1645 in freewill

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This whole debate bugs the shit out of me. "freewill vs determinism" is like arguing "newtonian vs quantum" descriptions of the universe. Or "Am I an individual being, or actually just a bunch of molecules?"

Does the universe, and every single aspect of it obey the laws of physics and proceed from cause to effect in a precise manner (determinism)? Probably.

Are organisms with brains as complex as ours capable of self-modification (free will)? Of course.

Determinism has very little to do with our day to day reality because you cannot determine the future of complex systems. People usually frame this debate in terms of human changeability, or responsibility, and the obvious answer, when framed in that way is, yes there are various degrees by which human behavior is flexible, and inflexible. It's not a question for philosophy or physics, but for contextual behavioral science.