Trillenial @Trillenial@qoto.org

I'm in love with a man and his name is Jenkins

@trinsec I don't even want to imagine that

Anytime I read "fourthly" in philosophy I know I'm gonna be bored out of my fuckin mind for the rest of the book

If you think that one side of the political/religious/scientific spectrum beliefs is completely unfounded and delusional. Perhaps you are the one that is deluded.

I find almost every idea that humans deeply believe has some level of wisdom to it, even if there are many fundamental misunderstandings.

Even many "absurd" ancient beliefs like animism and totemism have a lot of intuitive wisdom that modern society could learn a lot from.

I think Twitter is having a hugely negative effect on discussion. Obviously, there are more typical reasons such as algorithms incentivising more extreme positions. But there's another fact I really hate.

One of the core philosophies of Twitter's design is posting arbitrarily short statements. You can create a thread but they are far less appealing to the average Twitter user. This arbitrarily small-sized message normalises the age-old problem of politicians having to make their ideas short and snappy.

In every field I'm slightly knowledgable about no subject of debate is ever that simple, there usually several layers of nuance. Because I believe reality is nuanced.

Twitter is literally incapable of this nuance and so in my opinion I believe twitter posts are (for the most part) fundamentally incapable of expressing ideas that reflect reality to a sufficient degree.

@awethon Hey, let me try to respond to these. First of all, I was not trying to make an inflammatory partisan statement so apologies if that's how it came off.

1) I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, could you rephrase this?

2) I agree with you, but currently, for better or worse, the means of verifying information is the scientific method. It does not produce anything epistemically certain I agree, but there's little doubt it works better than many of the previous models.

3) "Why is the other side so evil?" Perhaps I'm speaking from experience here but I don't feel as if I'm straw-manning anyone here, there's without a doubt a meaningful amount of people who entirely dismiss write off the "other-side" as hopelessly mislead or evil.

4) Let me elaborate a little, as I believe the human mind clings to order and also often rejects the other, there is often a gap between the perception of the other and the reality of the other. For example, in European colonialism, the colonisers create a whole series of scientific myths (phrenology etc) as a posthoc rationalisation for why enslavement and exploitation were ethical.

I suppose your issue could come from a belief I have, the belief that fundamentally tribalism is a faculty in the brain (the other produces a disgust reaction). Humans being "the rational animal" must come up with a rational reason why they are disgusted or admit their true nature.

5) I mostly agree with this but I think it works in tandem with my perspective, I believe that because society has become so much more complicated it is necessary for specialisation. Assuming the standard of education is static, society could not remain as complex if everyone were to receive a comprehensive education. That's not necessarily to make a value judgement that a complex system is a good system.

6) I am very much aware of false narratives and I don't think the world can be fully understood through any individual narrative.

I am sorry you feel I am a patronising elitist, I'm just trying to formulate some thoughts I have. I appreciate the opportunity to defend them.

I had a nightmare last night that Strings were primitives in Java.

Sometimes, when I'm talking in a group people ask: "How are we all doing?"

I don't know how we're all doing, I only know how I am doing. If we wanted to find that out we should run some kind of consensus algorithm

When YouTube keeps recommending me the same channel over and over, I feel like a 35 year old single woman with a mother who has "just the right guy" in mind.

I think what is fascinating about the alt-right and to some extent many people throughout history is their fascination with the Jewish conspiracy. In a time in which is seems like much of our past mythology has become irrelevant to contemporary thinking, this still persists.

I think many people anticipate the use of myths as understanding to decrease as we gain scientific & historical knowledge. But I'm worried that new myths are rising, in many cases dangerous myths. I have 2 theories why, perhaps both are at play.

* The first of which is the fact that living a hyper-polarised post-truth reality politically will necessarily create new myths. Why is the other side so evil? Are they being mislead or is it in their nature? This has been commonly seen throughout history in traditional tribalism, i.e. Catholics and protestants. However it seemed to be on a downwards trend until recently (perhaps this is just a spike).

* The second of which is far more insidious. I believe in the past no one person understood all fields, but generally there were specialists in each fields that had a decently comprehensive understanding of their discipline at the time.

System's complicate continually, i.e. advanced society and the portion of the system anyone is capable of understanding is shrinking.
Meaning no one individual can understand the chaos.

The issue here is the human mind latches to order and in the absence of a real understanding will come those with convincing false narratives about said system, and feed people what they want to believe, the new mythology. I think we may be seeing myth resurface as a means (perhaps the primary means) of understanding things beyond our comprehension. To clarify, not in scientists but in the everyman.

Born too late to explore the world, born to early to explore the galaxy. Born just in time to explore the mind.

Conspiracy theorist epistemology -
I think the thing is with conspiracies theorists is if they fall far enough down the rabbit hole, it is almost as if they grow an aversion to truth.

They will simply believe whatever is false, in fact the more false something is the more likely it is to be believed. It is almost this absurd line of reasoning like "why are they going out of their way to prove that this is true? It must be really important that that they hide this from the people".

I think this comes from the fact they gain a sense of superiority from believing what normal people would never believe.

Ignorance is bliss only while you're ignorant of your ignorance

Frankenstein's monster is such an incel, like yeah you're a grotesque flesh golem. We all have our flaws, just be confident bro

Government: "You must remain in self quarantine only leaving the apartment to get essential supplies"

Introverts:

The Japanese say you have three masks. The first mask, you show to the world. The second mask, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third mask, you never show anyone.

I have a new saying, I have 0 masks because they're constantly fucking sold out.

@design_RG Haha it was a joke post. But here's a list of some defenses https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#ArguForRealFreeWill

Top 5 MOST UNBELIEVABLE arguments that humans still have free will (MUST READ) (Kant's answer will bore you)

@Iambharani 10. Kill the batman