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balderdash9 OP ,

Damn, TIL “Typoglycaemia”.

balderdash9 ,

And republicans, the “Law and Order” party, will still vote for this man.

balderdash9 ,

And republicans, the “Law and Order” party, will still vote for this man.

balderdash9 ,

Seriously, why did OP post this two weeks ahead of time

balderdash9 ,

Yeah, my dad would disown me again if I sent him this

balderdash9 , (edited )

Bookpilled. If you’re into science fiction books, he’s a great YouTuber to check out.

edit: Also, he does extra videos on his Patreon. But if you don’t like him try Outlaw Bookseller and Media Death Cult.

balderdash9 ,

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balderdash9 ,

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balderdash9 ,

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balderdash9 , (edited )

I’m agnostic. If you find the statistical probability argument for the existence of aliens salient, then by the same token you should believe that our reality is a simulation. In which case, the existence of aliens once again becomes questionable; the statistical probabilities of an infinite simulated universe are outside the realm of our current knowledge.

edit: See comment below on Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Hypothesis.

balderdash9 ,

Sorry, I suppose people haven’t heard of the “Simulation hypothesis” in philosophy.

Nick Bostrom argued that, statistically, it is more likely that we live in a simulation than not. Assume that an advanced civilization could build a machine with enormous computing power, sufficient to simulate a human mind and a universe “around” it. It follows that the number of such simulated minds/universes could be near infinite. So the probability of our actually being in a simulated universe dwarfs the probability that our reality is not a simulation.

balderdash9 ,

Yes, this is the idea. Although, as another noted, you can argue back and forth on whether Bostrom’s argument holds.

balderdash9 ,

Well I suppose it depends on your views of consciousness. Some would argue that our consciousness is nothing more than an emergent phenomenon grounded on the electrical impulses of our neurons. Personally, I’m convinced that the phenomenon need not be physical. It should be possible, with enough computing power, to model the same interactions. But I admit that if you reject this possibility, then the simulation hypothesis loses credence.

balderdash9 ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/4261e2a9-304c-48a7-98ae-9c0f42e0ffbf.webp

balderdash9 ,

Yet if you watch anime, the American character is typically blonde haired and blue eyed

balderdash9 ,

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balderdash9 OP ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/33c3d620-87ca-4370-81c7-898f47af2712.webp

balderdash9 OP ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/82f85bff-9997-417e-ae59-8afbafdb5227.webp

Specifically, “casting couch”.

balderdash9 OP ,

Took forever to find out, but, “Daisy” on backroomcasting.

balderdash9 ,

Human creativity is only outmatched by human cruelty.

balderdash9 ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/a1663a34-5c68-4543-9573-3682080593ed.webp

balderdash9 ,

He’s not really dead. Made me look though.

balderdash9 ,

Remember in grammar school when your teacher told you that Wikipedia is not a valid source? I’m sure they’re saying the same thing about AI right now.

balderdash9 ,

If we can pick math, then I choose logic.

balderdash9 ,

I think they’re saying two things. 1) You have to live for a few million years in the past in order to get a billion dollars when you reach the present age. 2) You can’t just go to sleep for a long time to get out of the scenario.

balderdash9 ,

I’m going to say no. Most of human history is nasty, brutish, and short.

balderdash9 ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/9bd41755-80b8-473b-868c-14c6088a3224.webp

balderdash9 , (edited )

can god kill god

It’s not a paradox, the words are just incoherent. It’s like asking whether God can taste the color blue. The answer isn’t yes/no, there is no answer.

edit: a word

balderdash9 ,

I agree with the classical interpretation of an infinitely perfect immaterial God outside of time. But the way out of the paradox is to scrutinize the question itself.

To illustrate the point, take three paradoxical questions: 1) Can God kill himself?, 2) Can God create a stone that he can’t lift?, 3) Can God create a square circle?

#3 Is obviously a meaningless question. The words individually have meaning, but the “square circle” refers to an impossible object whose properties are self-contradictory. Because we interpret God’s power as the ability to do all logically possible things, the inability to create this self-contradictory object is not a limit on his power.

#2 Seems better on the surface because we can posit increasingly larger stones. But the contradiction here is between the object and the nature of God. Once we accept an infinitely perfect God, there can, by definition, be nothing greater than it. If there was a stone that God couldn’t lift, this would contradict the fact of God’s existence. Therefore, as we are under the assumption that God exists, the object itself must be impossible.

#1 Is another form of the omnipotence paradox in #2. Can God do something that contradicts his own properties? This would make God immutable/eternal and yet not immutable/eternal. But an infinitely perfect God is, by definition, immutable/eternal! So any action that would contradict himself is a contradiction in terms and thereby logically impossible. Just like in the case of #3, the answer to the question isn’t “no”. Rather, the question itself is nonsensical.

balderdash9 ,

The specific example doesn’t matter much. Google “category error” or read the comment below where I explain the response in more detail.

You don’t strike me as someone I want to interact with.

It’s not like I’m trolling. This stuff is philosophy of religion 101. But, you are, of course, always free to ignore information that contradicts your world view.

balderdash9 ,

Agreed. And if God can do things outside of logic/reason, then we can’t understand him. Then the answer to the paradox would be: it is both impossible and possible. Which doesn’t make sense, but now we’re supposing God doesn’t follow the law of non-contradiction.

balderdash9 ,

Wait, isn’t space and time infinitely divisible? (I’m assuming you’re referencing quantum mechanics, which I don’t understand, and so I’m genuinely asking.)

balderdash9 ,

Given a being exists outside of this reality, the laws of this reality do not apply to it.

When we assume a contradiction is true (e.g., God is immutable and God is not immutable: P ^ -P), then we can derive any proposition and it’s negation from that contradiction.

  1. P ∧ -P
  2. P (1)
  3. -P (1)
  4. P ∨ X (2)
  5. X (3, 4)
  6. P ∨ -X (2)
  7. -X (3, 6)

If God can make a contradiction true, then every other proposition whatsoever can be proven true and false at the same time. We can infer the following: 1) All questions about God are useless because God is now beyond reason/logic and 2) Reason itself would lose all applicability as logic, necessity, mathematics, etc. can no longer be taken for granted. These seem like untenable consequences. We have, however, an alternate conception of God’s omnipotence that doesn’t force us to abandon reason/logic.

balderdash9 ,

There are different logics that account for temporality, modality (e.g., necessity), degrees of true, etc. But I doubt there’s any logic we could construct that can account for the inconceivable and the impossible being possible. Human reason throws up its hands and sits in the corner.

balderdash9 , (edited )

Can God kill Himself.?" This presumes God is a physical and material being.

I’m afraid I don’t see why being non-physical entails being eternal. For example, couldn’t God create an angel and then destroy it later? If angels are non-physical beings that can be created and destroyed, then immateriality doesn’t entail eternality. Moreover, you’re right that God cannot die, but it doesn’t follow that the answer to question #1 is “no”. If there was something that God couldn’t do, then God wouldn’t be omnipotent. So the question asks can God commit a logically contradictory action.

God would then be both a non material being, and a material being in which he animates, that has the potential to lift the stone. Now if you belive that every material object has consciousness…

I think our starting assumptions are somewhat far apart.

balderdash9 ,

This is why I name literally everything I save according to words I would use to search it.

balderdash9 ,

This isn’t exactly an answer, but ReNamer is a free tool that allows you to name batches of files. It’s a pretty versatile tool that lets you do multiple things to the filename of different media types.

balderdash9 ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/fae8b39d-770d-4e67-88d1-bb379f28b43d.webp

balderdash9 ,

You mean introduce some level of automation? Because I already manually name the files according to keywords

balderdash9 ,

Now they tell me!

balderdash9 OP ,

Ich will dick IEL

balderdash9 ,

It’s good to support creators if you like what they’re doing. I’ve supported Zishy in the past because they do high quality tasteful clothed/teasing photos of women who look like real women (not that there’s anything wrong with bimbos/plastic surgery). If you appreciate what someone is doing, monetary support isn’t unusual at all.

balderdash9 ,

Great ideas. Too bad our politicians don’t listen to us.

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