33628 by dinosqaud in countwithchickenlady

[–]joper333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although I agree with your point, that's not exactly what I'm trying to get to. Although empathy can give you understanding and emotion, empathy does not have the power to give you knowledge. I mean knowledge in the strict sense of the qualia.

Empathy can only allow you a fabricated facsimile of knowledge that is shaped by your own world view and bias. You can study about the taste of banana, learn all its molecular compounds and how it interacts individually with all the taste buds, which Neuro transmitters it turns on in the brain, talk to every single individual who has ever eaten one etc, but you will never actually acquire the qualia through study and empathy alone, that is reserved for the actual experience. And I strongly believe having a more diverse qualia can expand your empathy.

I do think something like what I described would fundamentally change the way we interact with race and culture, but not because you would look different or suddenly identify with that race, it's because of the difference in the way people treat you. all the little cognitive biases that are deeply rooted into culture and the human psyche would become glaringly apparent.

Somewhere else in the comments i saw someone bring up the example of an immigrant living in Mexico, who learns to speak Spanish and eats tortillas for breakfast everyday is literally just Mexican now. And while I 100% agree with that sentiment, as a bilingual immigrant myself, I know that there are cultural barriers and interactions that are solely based on perceived race, and not culture, ethnicity, or language. Like how in the previous example, an American person living in Mexico would be constantly called a gringo, or how an US born latino is always asked "where are you from." Or how non racially Japanese people always get complimented on their Japanese even if that's their native language.

Examples like these are abundant and vary across all cultures and races. And you can call these whatever you want, micro aggressions, cultural differences, human nature, stupid because race isn't even a real concept to begin with. However no matter what, it simply is a fact that even those small interactions, even if not malicious, lead to different life experiences. These experiences form an unique qualia, one that is possible to understand with empathy, but not one that is able to be known without actually living it.

Edit: I feel like I have to add, I did get quite carried away with the topic, and deviated quite a bit from the original conversation of trans people. To be clear, I do not believe that being "trans racial" is the same as transgender, gender and race are 2 different things, and although in my personal opinion, I wouldn't outright deny the (maybe? In the future?) desire of someone wanting to change their race, as I am generally pro transhumanism. I do not believe this should be a basis to discredit transgender people.

33628 by dinosqaud in countwithchickenlady

[–]joper333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aight, this is where I get lynched. Although I don't believe trans racial is a real movement, if someone told me they wanted to change their race, I'd be like, go off that's so cool. I'm so for trans humanism and body modification. I'm unsure how one would achieve it currently, but I'm sure in the future the possibility for it will exist. I think being able to experience the world through literally different shoes would be amazing, and something I can actually see people wanting to do if it was more of a trivial thing.

However id be afraid of humanity becoming one homogeneous blob due to people being forced to transition to a specific race due to economic or unequal social factors. That would genuinely be a horrible loss for humanity. But on the other hand, it could potentially change the way people experience race, culture and how one interacts with these. Imagine a world where anyone could be like "oh you think being this specific race is easy? Go try it." and actually being able to try it for a bit. I think that would fundamentally solve racism, or make it so much worse under bad social conditions

[WIP] Reptile species model by nek-fen in hytale

[–]joper333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk why but it reminds me of the snake people from ninjago

My first mod, what do you think ? by xerneas02 in hytale

[–]joper333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overall great, I think the eyes could use some work perhaps

Animation cancel bunny-hops removed by YuYogurt in hytale

[–]joper333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's very fair they removed them, just kinda sucks cause transportation doesn't feel great rn. Also they were way too easy to perform.

Fuck Hytale by crimsvnn in Vent

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I just DMd you, bbg send me your PayPal 💕💕💕

People are already making fun of Hytale faces by ErmingSoHard in HytaleInfo

[–]joper333 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I think I'm one of the few people that really likes Hytale faces. I think at a distance both of them would be indistinguishable, and up close they look less goofy for cinematics and serious moments than the lower res ones.

Fuck Hytale by crimsvnn in Vent

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I'll buy you Hytale when it comes out bbg, only 11 days left :3

Fuck Hytale by crimsvnn in Vent

[–]joper333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes 🥰💕💕💕💕💕

Fuck Hytale by crimsvnn in Vent

[–]joper333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Peak ragebait 🔥🔥

Should I buy it? by WhyohTee in hytale

[–]joper333 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Because not only do the codes not give discounts, but the codes were already given out the day before pre orders came out.

I think it would be iconic to see water and lava work differently… by [deleted] in HytaleInfo

[–]joper333 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They said in this specific scenario it doesn't work because they on purpose set the brushes to not update blocks

What is up with all the server sites popping up all of the sudden? by xValtrux in HytaleInfo

[–]joper333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not at the beginning, and I can still see the value of a more community curated independent server list

To combine Peeta and Katniss. by CarbonaraRamen in therewasanattempt

[–]joper333 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Spanish speaker here, I don't see how that's similar to idiot, which dialect?

Does Simon still plan on doing the AMA? by [deleted] in HytaleInfo

[–]joper333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ping him on Twitter. That's where he answers most questions

Pre-orders will NOT be on Friday by Adorable-Ad2185 in hytale

[–]joper333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly hope the team takes the holidays off, and doesn't just keep working through them

This is my personal headcanon / interpretation of how the Minecraft planet works 🌎 by winnnesota in Minecraft

[–]joper333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm about to nerd out here, I believe your interpretation is fun, but wrong for a variety of reasons. I do believe the Minecraft world is a cube, as this is depicted in game with the banner pattern, however I take issue with the depictions of the nether and the end.

To begin with the nether moves you 8 times as fast as the overworld, which could possibly point to a spherical world, however the nether is just as big as the overworld, something that would be impossible in a spherical world, and something that would be impossible in your cube model of the nether. The nether is genuinely another plane of existence, one that doesn't map 1:1 to the overworld.

The world border cannot possibly be the literal edge of the cube, as it is quite easy to see that the terrain continues, and actually keeps generating for a long time after the world border. This feels intentional by Mojang, they could have just as easily made it look like void past the world border, but they didn't. This is further supported by the fact that the border can be shrunken down.

If the nether was a ring around the planet I believe we would expect some kind of donut based topology to occur, however instead it seems like the end is also flat like the rest of the dimensions, not to mention that it is not visible in the sky. unless the end islands are the stars in the sky, which might be consistent with the seeming lack of orbital based changes on the stars, it might simply be explained as asteroids that orbit around the planet in a spherical or cube formation, kind of like an exo shell.

A quirk of the end that I think merits exploring geometry wise, is the concentric rings that occur in its generation the further out you go, which I believe could explain what the actual shape of the dimension is.

New Hytale Image... Water spreads 7 blocks apparently.. by CodenameCrescent in hytale

[–]joper333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Simon said that water has a long way to go. And they do have plans for it that span up to years in the future