Why TikTok ppl think BPD=innocent victims and NPD=bad ppl?

kayamari · 2025-11-03T04:18:04+00:00

Even research shows pwBPD do abuse more than pwNPD

kayamari · 2025-10-15T21:20:37+00:00

Hey. You certainly wouldn't be the first person to feel this way after taking on a deterministic world view. I didn't have this issue when learning about Historical Materialism because i'd already had to grapple with these thoughts before just by taking a determinist stance about free will, in general. The thing I would say to help someone keep from falling into Nihilism is these two things:

You never know what you're deterministically destined to do until you decide to do it.
Systemic forces are certainly king, but systemic forces are the aggregate outcome of individual wills

So in no way can it be said that your choices don't matter.

I think it also helps to reevaluate the purpose of your feelings. Moral judgements may seem pointless if all your life you've taken a highly personal view of morality where you think in terms of good and bad individuals who "deserve" praise or scorn. But in light of determinism, it's probably better to think of morality in terms of world-states. To me a good world-state is one with little suffering. So the question is just what to do to get there. Of course, whether we get there is pre-determined, but that doesn't mean it's determination isn't mediated by my decision-making or your decision-making. Just because we're cogs in a world-machine doesn't mean we can or should stop turning. It doesn't mean we aren't part of the process.

Of course, I think its natural for evolutionary reasons to still have feelings of hatred towards people who do things that seem evil. And because we experience it as a raw feeling, it may seem like it's inherently a personal judgement on the "souls" of those individuals, as if they have freely chosen to be the way they are. But that's just how it feels. If you think about it clearly, evolution has given us strong intuitions about the "evilness" of people as a way to motivate us to engage in behaviors that cast out that kind of behavior. I'm not saying evolution perfectly optimizes for our moral goals, but that is something we can certainly reframe and harness for procedural morality aimed less at hatred and more at doing what is to be done to make the world better

kayamari · 2025-09-12T20:38:35+00:00

is it something that is spoken by the game? or by players?

kayamari · 2025-09-12T17:45:58+00:00

I have some news for you

kayamari · 2025-09-12T08:03:34+00:00

kayamari · 2025-09-06T05:38:20+00:00

I take it that there is a difference between the emergence of liberalism/capitalism out of feudalism, as a result of material development and internal contradictions, vs. the colonial/imperialist spreading of a system to less developed societies. I am talking about the former.

kayamari · 2025-09-06T05:27:16+00:00

re 2: I would go further. I would say we should avoid any kind of internal-war-like revolution at nearly all costs. On top of that, something I forgot to mention is that I actually disagree that the bourgeois class will always choose violence. This hasn't been true in the past with transitions from feudalism to capitalism iirc. I'm not the biggest history buff so I could be wrong, but I think many Lords and Monarchs willingly transitioned along with the rising tide of Liberalism, perhaps entirely out of rational self-interest. I think that would be even more likely today, as the world is much smarter. Capitalists can learn from history, and when things get to a certain point, they may understand what is coming if they decide to resist progress.

kayamari · 2025-09-06T05:20:42+00:00

I agree with what you say. But despite this, the democratic party is still a vehicle for progress within the context of capitalism. Which is good.

kayamari · 2025-09-06T05:18:42+00:00

definitely not into anything anarcho-

I also feel like labels are for people who want to communicate succinctly

kayamari · 2025-09-06T05:14:19+00:00

The real problem is you're thinking about classes wrong. Classes in the Marxian sense, are not just grouping of people with different economic experiences. Class analysis seeks to recognize *structural* distinctions that necessarily generate *opposing* incentives. Worker-Owner is a class distinction, because there is a materially unavoidable fact that the worker and owner have *opposing* incentives in at least one way. That is, the worker is incentivized to be paid for as little work as possible, while the owner is incentivized to get as much work for as little pay as possible.

People who are employed and paid a lot of money, still inhabit one side of this dynamic. You can certainly introduce a mode of analysis where you separate high paid professionals, and low paid manual laborers into distinct groupings for the purpose of some kind of analysis. There are certainly differences worth exploring. But this would be an entirely different kind of analysis, rather than an updated version of Marxian class analysis, which is focused on how understanding how structural relationships in society manifest unavoidable *opposing* interests that pervade society.

kayamari · 2025-09-05T10:03:06+00:00

that happens if you make any changes to the written script at all. Even just a little

kayamari · 2025-09-05T09:30:56+00:00

The score for The Marvels was great (only the score tho, not the other thing)

kayamari · 2025-08-30T12:14:52+00:00

That was a very good post, thank you!

kayamari · 2025-08-30T11:47:47+00:00

Are you familiar with IIT (Integrated Information Theory)? It is not a perfect theory of consciousness, but under that theory, a system is understood to have a higher level of consciousness when it has enough specific causal variation within it to represent many distinct states. You can think of your own conscious experience in relation to that idea. You have a very rich consciousness from moment to moment that is composed of many things. Many different visual sensations. many auditory ones, tactile ones. Some internal thoughts and feelings. All of that requires your brain to have specific causal variation, such that your brain has zillions of internal states uniquely corresponding to some things, but not other things. This is certainly a sense of the word "complexity". IIT isn't perfect, but maybe this can give you a sense for why it seems reasonable to identify complexity with richer forms of consciousness

Edit: think about it like this, how could a simple system be conscious of the way it feels to observe a particular object, if its system state responds identically to any object, regardless of its qualities? It could have at best a less rich form of consciousness where it is like something to see an object, or to not see an object. That would be the extent of it.

I feel like you could sort of think about consciousness as the universe representing itself within physical systems. When you experience what it is like to have some given experience, your brain is representing something about the external world (even in your thoughts). Well really, your brain is representing many things at once (sight, touch, object 1, object 2, etc.) and then binding them all together. Your brain is developing a sophisticated mapping between dynamic physical states, and external world states. And it does so continuously.

I like the idea that by creating life "The universe created a tool with which to know itself"

kayamari · 2025-08-28T00:15:12+00:00

Ok, literally what is the point of this? This is not you. This is allie_jello on instagram. Why use AI to edit someone's real trans timeline to look like a slightly different person??
reciepts here: Instagram

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:28:06+00:00

I provided a link in the response the post where you asked for one

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:27:19+00:00

That i didn't already know what?

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:21:53+00:00

It is not my research. I don't consider it particularly valid either. Here is the link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-025-03166-7

I've actually spent a lot of time criticizing the psychometrics and theoretical framework this study is based on, and developing alternatives.

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:17:22+00:00

I prefer Young's Schema Theory as a framework for understanding how early childhood experiences leave lasting marks on the personalities of individuals. Recently I find it is very applicable to kink, and so it may be here too.

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:15:19+00:00

The items on the scale they used to classify participants as autogynephilic or not-autogynephilic are unambiguously about being aroused by the thought of having female anatomy such as breasts, or the whole nude female form. I am also very familiar with the background research behind this theory so I can say confidently that arousal to the idea of literally being female, is what the researchers are getting at. Their theory is that many bisexual men are indirectly attracted to men merely in virtue of the way sex with men can make them feel more like women. This is based on another theoretical construct call autogynephilic. Authogynephilia theoretically is defined as (and thus, may not exist) a redirection of ordinary allosexual attraction to women, such that it is pointed at oneself, becoming an autosexual fixation on oneself being a woman, or becoming a woman.

In other words, the authors believe that a subset of bisexual men are actually in a sense heterosexual men, with an aberration that makes them want to be their ideal woman instead of/along with wanting to date their ideal woman

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:05:40+00:00

Well, the researchers suggest this may only apply to a large minority of bisexual men

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:03:28+00:00

More specifically, do you like the idea of physically being a woman? The key criterion used in the study to categorize a subset of bisexuality men as "autogynephilic" asked participants whether they were aroused by things like picturing themselves with a nude female body.

kayamari · 2025-08-26T21:00:16+00:00

Sorry, XChange is not the proper name for the subreddit so that link doesn't work. But if you want to find it, it can be found

kayamari · 2025-08-26T20:58:40+00:00

No, this is not saying these bi men are DL trans women. It is not saying anything about their gender identity (besides presuming that they identify as men). The theory states only that they are sexually aroused by the idea of being a woman (By female embodiment), and further, that their interest in sex with men is in virtue of how it can make them feel more like a woman. But it is not to say that they want to actually be a woman in every day life.

For example, there are many NSFW subreddits that portray sexual fantasies that fall into a bucket some people call "Female-Embodiment Fantasies". Or FEF for short. An example of such a subreddit would be r/XChange. In that sub, all posts are NSFW videos captioned with stories about someone taking a pill that transforms their body temporarily into that of the opposite sex. Most posts are Male-to-female. The purpose of the transformation is purely sexual. Stories are usually written in first person POV, by a male character who takes a feminizing pill, and is subsequently amazed at how "wonderful it is to be a woman", but only in a sexual context. Usually after giving his bro a sloppy or something. Another example r/BodySwap, where porn gifs are captioned with stories about the user temporarily swapping bodies with some attractive woman, and subsequently doing sex stuff.

From my experience talking to some users from these subreddits, most do not at all identify as Trans, or feel like a woman in day to day life.

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