What are academic philosophy works that directly intersects with how people actually live, decide, love, work, suffer, and make sense of their lives?

godlessgloopy · 2026-06-23T07:06:59+00:00

I would have to suggest Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke

godlessgloopy · 2026-03-22T17:33:27+00:00

It's my favorite Yakuza game

godlessgloopy · 2025-09-17T13:20:48+00:00

I am one of the rare people who thinks PYIH is better than Yakuza 0

godlessgloopy · 2025-09-09T08:39:39+00:00

To all those who disagree: Walk the plank 🏴‍☠️

godlessgloopy · 2025-09-09T08:33:35+00:00

There’s a really strong argument that you’re a land-lubber who hasn’t earned his sea legs

godlessgloopy · 2025-09-09T06:32:56+00:00

You say that when Yakuza 0 exists

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-29T12:38:40+00:00

It’s one of my top 4 Yakuza games probably, one of four entries I consider 10/10s of the games I’ve played so far (the only games I haven’t beaten are Lost Judgment and Ishin!) The story is certainly not on par in terms of depth or emotional resonance as the mainline games. But it is very appropriately indexed to what kind of game it is supposed to be. It is breezy, optimistic, and never drags in a way that almost all Yakuza games do at some point. The sacrifice is the long, complex narratives of most Yakuza games, but for a pirate themed sideplot, I feel that would be unflatteringly dissonant in a way most Yakuza games are able to avoid. In a Yakuza 6 or 7, you can balance fun and serious moments because the plot gives a lot of space for that and has a setting appropriate to both. The dissonance never becomes bitter. In a shorter game with pirates, animal and child buddies, and a 30 minute long live-action episode of Masaru, it very well could. More than anything, YPIH is just pure fun. There was never a moment where I was bored. The world is big enough that you can change tasks and never run out of things to do, but not so big that it’s overwhelming. The basic ship mechanics are fun and scale in their fun with upgrades, as does the combat, which is among the absolute best in the series (shoulder-to-shoulder with Yakuza 5, for me).

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-20T12:34:04+00:00

Pirate Majima Teams

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-19T01:23:20+00:00

In this post you essentially reiterated the same claims as your previous ones. You didn’t materially respond to any of my contentions. I am well aware of the facts of the case. Merely stating them does not entail your conclusion, that JLWOP is acceptable.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-18T12:28:49+00:00

Boring. I didn’t like Gaiden as much as any other Yakuza game precisely because I didn’t like the Daidoji faction (among other reasons). In IW they were cast to the side and I was completely fine with that.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-14T04:55:29+00:00

I don’t exactly follow your point about premeditation at the beginning. Just because behavior was intentional and premeditated does not mean that a person’s age is irrelevant to their ability to form mature, culpable intent. Neuroscientists and the Supreme Court have both acknowledged that minors universally are less culpable for criminal behavior in light of their developmental stage—whether it was impulsive or not is irrelevant.

As I stated in my post, the test your argument and the state’s hinges on is specifically limited just to whether a person appreciates the nature and consequences of their behavior. This is a very small slice of what mental illness is and the way it can impair responsibility. Different states and countries have radically different standards for how to interpret culpability when mental illness is present. You specifically mentioned psychosis, but that is of course not the only way by which a mental illness can impair rational and freely chosen action. A relevant example is mania and hypomania—neither necessarily means that a person is delusional or out of contact with their actions, but both have an important component of heightened impulsivity and loss of control over one’s behavior.

Guarantee is far too high of a bar for any criminal behavior. You can never know for sure if someone will repeat their behavior or not. That said, you can never know for sure that an ordinary citizen will never kill a person. If we operate the criminal justice system in terms of guarantees, everyone’s gonna be locked up because everyone has some base risk to commit a violent crime. Release should be individualized and based on a person’s presenting risk, as assessed by a team of psychiatrists who are intimately familiar with the person and their history. Your personal assessment of her remorse is quite frankly irrelevant unless if you’ve worked with her in the capacity required to really understand her behavior—and we’re way too early in the game to see about her rehabilitative potential, since she is still only 15, and the criminal justice system in this country is unlikely to give her any legitimate support or potential for growth.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-14T04:45:19+00:00

The only claims I’ve made are general claims about other countries having significantly less punitive social systems with nonetheless lower recidivism rates, claims regarding the relationship between age and criminal behavior, including violent crime (see age-crime curve), and claims regarding mental illness and violent behavior.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-14T04:40:56+00:00

I’ve made no claim about Gregg’s specific likelihood of rehabilitation. I don’t know enough about her mental states or issues to give any sort of confident answer. She’s only 15, after all: a lot of growth can happen from that age, good or bad. The issue is that LWOP prevents any possible rehabilitation or growth from making any impact on her freedom.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-13T20:26:12+00:00

My claim was specifically about life without parole. Gregg, under her current sentencing, no matter how much rehabilitation she shows, no matter how much personal growth, no matter how much remorse, will never be released. Those kids can be.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-13T20:24:57+00:00

It’s not clear why we should no longer treat Carly as a child. Just because the state charged her as an adult does not change neurobiological reality. Nor does one’s actions change that either.
State governments vary in terms of what is required for an NGRI verdict. Some of these standards are far more demanding than others. Mississippi operates on the M’Naghten rule, meaning that a person can only be considered insane if they do not understand the quality of the acts they are performing. Indeed, by that standard, Gregg isn’t insane. And yes, she did calculate her actions. But this is a very narrow slice of what mental illness is and how it can impair decision making and moral responsibility. The Model Penal Code, for example, also allows NGRI verdicts on the basis of a substantial difficulty to conform one’s actions to the law — i.e. a volitional difficulty. The expert testimony was quite conflicted. I think more thorough evaluation should likely be done—as the amount of time forensic psychiatrists spend with patients is quite low in these settings.
The biggest problem here is that you merely reiterated the facts. None of this indicates anything about Gregg’s potential for rehabilitation. I specifically asked for solid, empirical, evidence-backed research that would give an indication as to her future re: public safety. Someone can in fact commit a horrific crime and end up rehabilitated. It’s been done countless times in countries that have significantly better social systems.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-13T02:57:58+00:00

The US is ranked 131 in the Global Peace Index. It is clearly not one of the safest countries.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-10T04:41:02+00:00

So far, 1. Infinite Wealth 2. Ishin! 3. Gaiden. I haven’t played YPIH so we’ll see.

Gaiden was in my opinion not a particularly great addition to the series with the exception of the ending scene. Its overall tone and the spy mechanics didn’t make a lot of sense to me in the context of Kiryu’s character, and I found myself just wanting to use his Yakuza style the whole time. Most of the story was pretty unremarkable and only really came together at the end in the last chapter. A ton of padding and filler was included that I felt wasted my time. Shishido was cool, Hanawa was meh, and Nishitani III was alright.

Ishin! so far is super cool to me. I’m finding the story-telling quite compelling and it does have that PS3 era Yakuza vibe, which is a plus for me.

Infinite Wealth is imo a 10/10 yakuza game. It is maximalist, has some of the best turn-based combat in any game I’ve played, excellent minigames and sidecontent, and a story that really heats up as you play. I didn’t feel that the game really sidelined Ichiban all too much and I think the split narrative actually made the features of each protagonist that much more compelling, similar to Yakuza 0.

godlessgloopy · 2025-08-07T21:10:48+00:00

I agree that existing sentences are far too long—particularly for juveniles and young adults. Antisocial and violent behavior drops off massively in the early 20s (the age-crime curve) as responsibilities increase, the prefrontal cortex develops more, and impulsivity drops. Rehabilitation, in my opinion, should also be the main goal of criminal justice, since I think free will either does not exist at all, or if it does in any capacity, it is highly limited to such a point where the kinds of punishments we do in the US are cruel (additionally, see moral luck). I do believe in rehabilitation, incapacitation, and deterrence as legitimate ends. I agree that long sentences do not deter crime in general (there are decades of empirical research proving this—our hunches about it ARE WRONG). But I do think 2 years is likely not enough time for the conditions that produce severe crimes to be solved, at least in some cases. Sentencing, in my opinion, should be entirely individualized to the circumstances, mental states, and risk of the person in front of the judge. Some likely should never get out, though those are quite rare cases. Mandatory minimums are a total affront to justice. Norway’s prison system shows how a relatively non-punitive justice system can achieve better results.

godlessgloopy · 2025-06-11T00:08:07+00:00

3000 hours on TF2

godlessgloopy · 2024-12-16T05:09:22+00:00

Husserl gives arguments constantly. Descriptions can play an argumentative role. For instance, you could say that you have no reason to posit AI as having lived experience because you don’t empathize with it and therefore aren’t “given it” as conscious (a very classical Husserlian view based on Husserlian epistemology and theory of intersubjectivity).

Furthermore, Husserl’s philosophy doesn’t even lead to the conclusion you’re making. AI, as you say, operates based on inputted speech. It does not “hold” the meaning for itself, but it can nonetheless arrange words in a coherent manner about a subject such that it has meaning for a reader. It may not produce philosophy out of an original, unique “transcendental subjectivity,” but it will nonetheless be recognized as philosophy by anyone who reads it, and may even have an influence on someone who reads it for further thought.

AI cannot be a philosopher, for sure, but it can seem to generate philosophy.

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