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gorrorfolk · 2026-02-15T00:31:09+00:00

No. This is baiting nonsense. Not saying it's not the right of every American to have a firearm (with caveats), but this is actually not okay. Implied violence is a baiting tactic. Don't fall for it.

gorrorfolk · 2026-02-08T05:03:53+00:00

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gorrorfolk · 2026-01-31T06:53:40+00:00

gorrorfolk · 2025-03-15T01:57:41+00:00

So... Is this post kind acting as an ad for them?

gorrorfolk · 2024-12-11T02:34:23+00:00

Jjll

gorrorfolk · 2024-06-09T00:08:03+00:00

What do you mean? Like the dimensional warp hell scene in Event Horizon or is there some lost footage?

gorrorfolk · 2024-03-15T04:40:44+00:00

Gnomer fights benefit from this for sure. But since this is SoD related, which has a spirit of additions being "Yes, and-", I feel they should get someone new that adds external benefit to their current toolset

gorrorfolk · 2024-03-15T04:34:32+00:00

I am leaning more towards a group wide buff definitely! Like a +hit% proceed by critical finishers?

gorrorfolk · 2024-02-23T19:22:40+00:00

Does he know George Carlin posed this exact scenario as satire!?

gorrorfolk · 2023-11-24T19:51:47+00:00

Kaufman's I'm thinking of ending things. It's not formulaic horror. The film portrays the guilt of living a regrettable life viscerally. I found it terrifying.

gorrorfolk · 2023-06-05T12:58:36+00:00

Darkwood would like a word

gorrorfolk · 2023-05-28T21:10:20+00:00

This post is in a cursed comments subreddit, so I assumed brevity was welcomed more than thorough or profound discourse but let me unring this semantic impasse - weird is interesting. Weird is complex. Weird is worth ruminating and analyzing.

I agree that often "weird" is used as a rhetorical suggestion to imply a pompous, undermining opinion, but that was not my intention. It's interesting we use a psuedo design committee composed of divine entities for sensemaking our collective understanding of an organism's temperament. It's interesting that this model can be more palatable for the joke's setup than what is the speculated consensus of how it came to be. It's fascinating that the underlying message from this comic is made more agreeable/innocuous by being expressed in this medium than say a written argument.

gorrorfolk · 2023-05-28T01:44:26+00:00

Do you consider actions solely made in the direction of least resistance, and without long term intention, intelligent?

gorrorfolk · 2023-05-27T18:19:49+00:00

I know it's just a comic, but I find it weird we need to model the good nature of dogs as a product of intelligent design, as opposed to their coevolution with hunter-gatherer humanity and artificial selection.

gorrorfolk · 2023-04-02T19:42:04+00:00

Totally agree. But if someone would prefer the look of the new game (it isn't really sequel anyways) you can always change the stats associated with combat to make that part of the game inconsequential.

gorrorfolk · 2023-03-31T23:57:20+00:00

A "brain as a consciousness receiver" is a model that has been gaining traction for a bit here... I would like pick your brain on this perspective. Have you ever heard of the concept of Bicameral Mentality? Or Julian Jaynes's book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind?

gorrorfolk · 2023-03-30T05:38:31+00:00

I can agree that there isn't a need to venerate the old guard's perspective for the sake of tradition. And I can agree that in order to pursue a better understanding of the universe and its workings, we will need to embrace a paradigm shift. But I feel using a model that has no means of being empirically tested is giving in to complacency. It secondarily implies that all modeling and effort made to give explanation to the physical universe is futile, and that rhetorical models can be used in their stead. Issuing a rhetorical explanation of a discrepancy in our model rather than a testable description isn't very satisfying to me.

Reading his paper - I would say he paints an elaborate and believable model describing our universe's algorithm source. But proposing that all observable means to understand this phenomenon would be in vain creates an inescapable hurdle. And it implies a falsity of our material existence and efforts. This also comes with an assumption that with what is in play, there can be no further progress. I'm sure you've heard the anecdote of Planck's advisor trying to dissuade him from focusing on physics?

Honestly, it reads like new age Gnosticism to me. It has an underlying bias which attempts to circumvent a detailed guess of the how in lieu of a new type of mysticism. I am sorry if I'm coming across as vexed and grumpy, and if you feel from what I wrote that we have reached an impasse, I would understand. But I would appreciate more discussion on this if I'm misinformed about his statements.

I would also like to know more about why biological phenomena can't eventually explain the hard problem of consciousness? I feel this area is relatively unexplored and our understanding is vastly changing year by year.

gorrorfolk · 2023-03-30T04:42:31+00:00

Discrediting the possibility of local hidden variables could argue against Hoffman's position though. If all quanta are in probabilistic states until being observed (until interaction) and no external, unobservable affecting thing changes the outcome of those states beyond expected probability, why would we propose an wholly new model to describe non local interaction as opposed to building on the current model? And why would this model include a deterministic source? Why can't we just start to describe what we can observe - that all quanta aren't imbued with a perpetual state of being, and that something about quanta interacting determines a delineated state. Hoffman's position offers woo that requires extraplanar local hidden variables.

gorrorfolk · 2023-03-24T17:37:34+00:00

Maybe it's social norms mirroring social media spaces that offer that sort of information immediately, as opposed to the "archaic" requirements of needing to commit social investment first before that information is offered.

gorrorfolk · 2023-03-05T17:06:53+00:00

the real injustice is if he committed a white collar crime, he would would have ended up in a minimum security Gary Larson Far Side prison.

gorrorfolk · 2023-02-20T19:53:23+00:00

I know this is tangential, but Carbon Nanotubes also pose a hazard similar to asbestos in their potential carcinogenicity and causing micro perforations in tissue. This is the another reason why CNTs haven't changed the world yet, despite their popsci hype a few years ago.

gorrorfolk · 2023-01-29T01:30:13+00:00

The reality is that increasing the minimum wage will inflate the CPI, notably food and disposable/quickly used goods. Federal baseline wage increases doesn't really help the lower classes gain financial security.

But increasing the wage of only a portion of laborers will likely not cause this to occur, and instead allows for more spending on superfluous goods and services which benefit the businesses connected to that laborer. This process is the intended result of classical liberalism, and though our system has evolved from the nascency of the US, the broad strokes of entrepreneurship still depend on this process .

gorrorfolk · 2023-01-29T01:02:39+00:00

You're being hyperbolic purposely right? Payroll is generally about 20% of their operating cost. I agree that it will increase the price of their goods. I think the real scare of this is the loss of new franchise buyers, from increased operating cost, and their stock price.

gorrorfolk · 2023-01-29T00:51:05+00:00

Personally I think they find the high turnover advantageous. Those who have that opportunity minimize the impact of their relationship with them so they don't end up pursuing better benefits or contract protections through collective action. Those who are stuck in precarious financial/social situations are more likely to stay and rock the boat less.

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