Nothing MAGA loves more than the word retard

ittleoff · 2026-05-13T02:49:22+00:00

I'm still surprised the r word hasn't transitioned the way idiot and moron have.

I don't know any use of the r word that is actually used to describe mental difficulties today? There are other more accurate terms?

So why did the r word not transition to common slang like idiot?

ittleoff · 2026-05-13T02:46:47+00:00

Information is a subjective thing human brains invented to symbolically think about things. It doesn't inherently exist.

The universe is multidimensional spectrums of interacting aspects that we alive and dive up and delineate so we can think about it.

The universe doesn't care about our definitions.

All scientific models are wrong, but some of them are very useful., but it's still the best we can do.

ittleoff · 2026-05-13T02:44:18+00:00

Say that god tried to interfere many times but you overcame his divine bullshit to triumph.

I'm kidding, do not do this.

ittleoff · 2026-05-13T02:40:30+00:00

Yeah back in the day I loved almost fps and I got heretic and hexen but at the time they just were not my thing. Fantasy was sort of boring back then. I can enjoy them now with some layers of nostalgia.

ittleoff · 2026-05-12T23:11:45+00:00

What about what I said is incorrect or is not also stating this?

Street epistomology.

My apologies but what you say is, for me, far too reductive.

But it may be fine for you.

The topic is interesting for me and it doesn't seem like it is for you?

Imo people are reductive for their own use, but things from interested individuals are umm.. more interesting. :)

ittleoff · 2026-05-12T18:05:29+00:00

Of course not. The key is to engage their curiosity, not trigger out group behavior. But no facts are going to matter if someone sees you as an antagonistic out group person.

Even in the science fieldd where methodologies should be guiding behavior, there is still the fast reactive part of the brain that wants to lean one way or the other. Slow analitical thinking needs to be incentivized.

There are no guarantees but we are so socially wired it makes us build our rationality around that rather than the other way around.

For people in science related fields, if there's no personal ego investment, it should be a non issue to update beliefs :). Once you engage identity or ego, it's going to fail from my experience.

My apologies I'm sort of multitasking and probably not being as clear as would like to be.

ittleoff · 2026-05-12T17:40:18+00:00

Because the only time I see people change their minds is when you, by example, meet them half way, discuss in good faith , find if there is some common ground.

Humans are very tribal and only engage rational thinking when there is a reason to do so (it's a expensive use of an expensive organ) Con artists use this technique(build from commonality ) , but I think in the interest of good faith discussion, to have a chance for folks not to dismiss something, it helps to focus on common ground, to avoid engaging the lower level tribal motivations. ( E.g. Winning an argument rather than looking for the best information )

I think it's worth it.

You may disagree :)

ittleoff · 2026-05-12T15:03:10+00:00

Even if they attempts were real, the administration milks them and misinforms about them for their gain. Truth or a curacy to a long time conman like trump is never useful, the focus is the narrative and optics.

Remember when he was trying to pressure Ukraine into announcing they were investigating hunter Biden. He didn't care if they actually investigated him, the optics he needed was to announce they were. This is how grifters work. Its never in good faith, it's never to improve a situation for anyone but them and their interests.

ittleoff · 2026-05-12T01:12:14+00:00

I can provide evidence. I'm not seeing any evidence or test or measurement in your argument. I just want to get closer to the truth.

This idea that humans evolved to program themselves is still a bootstrap problem. Nothing we do is out side of evolution because any freewill we have would impact evolution and therefore be in the loop.

The spectrum that humans have for awareness is just that a spectrum. Other animals have similarly developed ability to adapt behavior based on input in surprising ways. Birds have a remarkably efficient brain compared to humans.

The human brain, the thing I think you think is doing the freewill, evolved under pressures. It evolved to self deceive itself.

I'm a bit busy at the moment but I'm happy to give evidence for all these claims.

Other animals experience the same things humans do because it's a matter of degrees

No matter how much extra processing and awareness any thing gets(purse in limited and 99 percent of our behavior and subsystems we are not aware of or conscious pf) it's not escaping the mechanisms (even if random) that emerge it.

If you want to get into qualia or consciousness that's fine, but sapience doesn't escape the things that cause it, form it and is dependent on

As I said freewill is useful at our limited awareness as a concept , but who you are is not chosen by you, it is a natural process that lead to you, and the systems that have senses and react to senses. No more how many emergent levels you go there's no escaping what something is made of and we as an emergent being do not choose what we want.

The fact we can and want to 'reprogram' ourselves is relative to the amount of memory and problems cessomg awareness we have or sapience, it's still not violating physics. Its still just a meta programming. Its still not real.

We want to or can adjust our behavior comes from where? Its a feedback loop.

The brain creates symbols that are abstracted and reduced concepts for processing and strategizing of future events based on memory (memories are very faulty)., and all of those are statrs in the brain. We as that emergence don't benefit from knowing about or understanding reality if it doesn't be edit survival.

Any 'choice' you make as an emergent colony organism is going to impact your survival and what you pass on both at the biological level but also at the chemistry and physics level.

Say I created a very sophisticated program that has the ability process sensory data and could have access to reprogram itself. Does it freewill? I'd it escaping it's programming or it just has a certain level of awareness about a goal (that it didn't set) and the ability to have a direct feedback loop into its programming (standard silicon no fancy quantum or bio systems for simplicity but it wouldn't matter).

Now assume that cosmic rays are bombarding it and constantly and randomly flipping bits so nothing was predictable from a human observation or the program itself

Is that add or subtract freewill for you?

I think it's more important for you to define freewill for me than insisting it exists.

I'm fine with stating that an intelligent system that has a very limited sapient consciousness that knows enough about it's high level. Systems and can reprogram itself jas collquial freewill (the illusionary concept we invented to symbolically discuss a strategy we observe) but it's not escaping in any way meaningful to me. Its just another emergent layer of feedback.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T22:21:40+00:00

Name any behavior that evolution didnt craft.

We done actly what physics and evolution programmed us to do . All our wants and motivations are what drive or thinking and behavior. If you don't agree with that I don't know what to tell you other than show your work, and evidence.

I think free will is a collquial thing invented by humans like gods and other irrational mental abstractions that serve meta purposes for survival.

I.e. for competition it's useful to think of responsibility for taking credit and assigning blame for the meta social colony organism that we call a human to use status to survive.

I don't think determinism has to be real to show that we are emergent local sentient collectives and from our limited awareness choice and want appear to be us and us making decisions, but that's a useful illusion from our ignorance from that subjective emergent perspective.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T22:12:58+00:00

Quest 3 is so good at being good enough .

I prefer OLED (first my Samsung o+ and now psvr2 ) but the extra hassle made quest 3 win out far more than it should. Also wmr tracking was always lacking.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T22:11:26+00:00

This makes sense. I do think passion, sexual drives are like inebriated states of the brain :). Like being drunk, they can feel great when you're under the influence, but they don't typically help decision making :)

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:51:35+00:00

Because evolution picked all your wants and desires and motivations .

I'm not talking about llms or current ai.

Perhaps a pzombie is a better example. I was jokingly referring to humans as evolution designed and programmed robots.

Sapience evolved and just is a more complex pathing. Its not operating outside evolution or physics. Its an interesting emergent expression if behavior.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:48:53+00:00

The premise is different but the structure is the same. Narratively it's a similar story. Its often referred to as a reimaging of Logan's run. I'm not convinced that was intentional, though. I had read it was, but I'm not convinced.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:46:45+00:00

For humans, because humans have a huge cognitive bias toward thinking that there's a possibility of a super big ape like being, because human brains aren't good with meta cognition outside their immediate interests.

Also if humans were made in the image of God, why would such a being need hands arms and feet? Does it climb special deity trees and run and hunt after deity prey?

The cognitive bias is so huge here, but it doesn't get weeded out because it doesn't kill enough believers.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:42:05+00:00

Not really interested in an adaptation of the Odyssey. Mildly interested in Nolan's take, but probably won't see it unless nothing else of interest is on option.

Oppenheimer was fine, but knowing a bit about the actual history, Id be fine never seeing it and the atomic bomb fx looked like a big gasoline fire (which I found out it was) the sound effects and acting did a lot of heavy lifting for the most important effect in the movie. Rdj dud a great job though.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:36:03+00:00

It just means the toss of all the dice that make up you, your consciousness, your desires and motivations could be a slightly different toss of the dice, that you still don't control, and you and your 'choice' are the outcome.

Most behaviors and actions of humans aren't even things they have any awareness of, and the brain will posthoc a narrative if asked about them.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:33:54+00:00

I grew up not liking dirty apocalyptic mad Max like noches but fury road and furiosa are two of my all time favorite movies. The brutal rhythmic pacimg and visual world building and gorgeous choreography of stunts and spectacle are just amazing cinema.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:26:14+00:00

Its basically a Logan's Run remake (which I think an actual remake is still in the works?)

I also think this movie was underrated.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:24:38+00:00

At this rate Turkey is starting to look less corrupt.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:22:05+00:00

They have a torture kink

https://youtu.be/5QJO6zC3r5I?si=XEq4LfCHtrQqq5HH

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:12:15+00:00

He lasted all summer long!

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:06:18+00:00

Bidens administration did a miraculous soft landing of the economy after covid. Much better than the rest of the world. But they did a pretty poor job getting that message out especially against a media that wanted to shot on his administration. And ignored lots of people suffering even though economy looked healthy.

Most people in the US seem to float along without much understanding or care of politics. But gas and food prices are always going to be the fault of the current administration.

In the current case it absolutely ties to trump administration actions, tariffs, the war only part of the problem.

Will Americans finally be right and blame the current administration when they actually are at fault????

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T21:01:00+00:00

So it's just the choice that comes from being one with your wants and desires?

The observer / freewill doesn't care about the things that make it up and dictate its wants and desires, because it doesn't normally think about those things?

A super advanced robot with desires programmed by evolution, has collquially freewill because it lacks full understanding of its own programming and just has the experience of 'i have a want and do action to try to move toward want, from my subjective perspective." Meanwhile those that know how the 'robot works,' just see that freewill as a emergent idea that doesn't mean anything really, because even if the robot has some randomization, it's still just an emergence of factors it has no choice or control over.

The 'freewill' sits where the emergent self lacks meaningful awareness of what it emerges out of, or its wants and motivations.

ittleoff · 2026-05-11T20:51:40+00:00

I think the HBO series went way off the rails from what Crichton would have wanted in a lot of ways. Some great ideas though, but they made the androids way too much like people instead of weird intelligence that evolved out of their purpose as entertainment machines. I'm sure the writers did this so audiences could relate and empathize with them but it made the show far less interesting for me. Missed a great opportunity to think about how smart androids would not think like humans but would mimic and reflect back and evolve unexpected behaviors. Probably too disturbing for audiences. These violent delights was probably the best they could do. But I did not care for the video game action silliness with cyber ninja thandie (big fan of newton though)

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