Thorny_Thicket @ Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

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Reddit basically doesn't exist to me anymore. Lemmy is hardly a substitute but it's the best there is (because reddit doesn't exist) so it'll have to do. Every now and then I manage to bait someone debate me here but unless that happens I go thru the content pretty quick and then just have to come up with something else to do. It's not what I would have wanted but it's probably good for me. Social media is just entertainment. It's in no way essential and probably has net-negative effect on society.

If you violently oppose Musk then how do you feel about people like Putin, Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei or Bashar al-Assad? Those are the people I focus my opposition to. Someone like Musk, Bezos, Tate etc. I simply have no time nor interest for. That's recreational outrage.

I have no idea what sense of balance has to do with driving a car and even deaf people can get a driver's license but okay. How's this an argument for LIDAR again? It does not have anything to do with either of those things.

There's plenty to criticize Musk for. Your apparent assumption that anyone not violently agains him must be a fan is just further evidence for the lack of ability to think rationally about the subject.

Which loophole is that again?

Like popularize electric vehicles, create a reusable rocket or put global internet around the earth? Never gonna happen right?

Let's be fair. It could be called Driver Assistant Plus and you people would still be complaining because this isn't about Tesla

What's the human equivalent for lidar then?

Spends +5 hours online daily?

Sure. You just didn't author that intention in the way most would think. It's just a feeling that has appeared in your consciousness which motivates you to act. You don't choose to.

Most animals aren't intelligent enough to destroy the world even if they wanted to. Intelligence doesn't mean good or moral. It's the capacity to process information.

I'm sure you too know that it's a spectrum. Some production animals live on a free-range farm having jolly good time while others live in a 26 storey pig skyscraper

I don't believe in free will so there's no point at ruminating in past mistakes. I couldn't have done otherwise. I'm now just telling myself a story which makes me feel bad but achieves nothing else.

And no. This doesn't mean I can do whatever and not take responsibility. If I intentionally hurt other people then yeah I could not have done otherwise but it does make me reflect on what kind of person does that.

Well yeah obviously both are important. Ideally you have good intentions which leads one to act in a way that is perceived as good too.

However my point is that intentions is what tells more about what you're like as a person. An autist may be socially akward and they might act in a way an asshole would too but if you know they don't intend to treat you badly then you also wont judge them the same as someone who does it with the purpose to hurt you. You might still not want to be with them because it's emotionally taxing but you shouldn't think of them as an evil person.

If a someone bumps into you on the street by accident and you spill your coffee the end result is exactly the same as when someone does that intentionally but the intentions matter here a lot.

I answered this question below:

It shouldn’t matter. Even if you don’t know why someone does something there’s still an intention behind that behaviour and it matters.

Ofcourse that doesn’t mean you’re going to be fine as long as your intentions are pure even if your actions are perceived to be malicious because you might suffer the consequences from the misunderstanding but you’re still not a bad person.

The reverse of this would be a high functioning charming psychopath that’s great at manipulating people and is well liked but his intentions are to take advantage of you so they’re a truly bad person despite not being perceived as such

It shouldn't matter. Even if you don't know why someone does something there's still an intention behind that behaviour and it matters.

Ofcourse that doesn't mean you're going to be fine as long as your intentions are pure even if your actions are perceived to be malicious because you might suffer the consequences from the misunderstanding but you're still not a bad person.

The reverse of this would be a high functioning charming psychopath that's great at manipulating people and is well liked but his intentions are to take advantage of you so they're a truly bad person despite not being perceived as such

I can admire a well made hammer like it's a piece of art

It does matter though. I'd much rather hang with someone who unintentionally said something that hurt my feelings than one who intended to do so. Even if their behaviour is perceived as being good but on the inside they're full of shit then I still want nothing to do with them - I probably just don't know.

Intention tells everything about you and perception tells basically nothing

This seems to fit well with one of the explanations for what the brain actually is doing or atleast one of the processes running which is trying to guess what happens next.

That seems plausible in my mind.