Thorny_Thicket @ Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

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I'd have a room dedicated for porn basically. Monitors playing films 24/7, posters on the walls, toys, clothes, dolls etc. all over in huge quantities. Basically if there's a "kinky version" of anything I want it there instead of the ordinary thing. Like a light switch that's a dick you flip up and down etc.

Probably not. Screenshot seems to imply they blocked Elon

Probably the fact that people here seem to bond over the mutual hatred of outgroups/people rather than over the interest in similar things.

The quite heavy left bias shows also.

If you're so keen on renaming twitter then maybe don't make fun of Elon wanting to do the same.

It's twitter. Always has been.

As disney and romantic movies did with womens idea of relationships

These men used to gather on the streets and start breaking shit and kicking grannies back in the day to express their frustration. Them withdrawing to their moms basements smoking weed and jerking off to porn might not be ideal but perhaps not the worst thing either. That's why we don't see a significant uptick in crime despite the ever increasing amount of such men.

I'm not sure "pervert" is the best word to describe someone who masturbates.

I don't get why this is an issue. Assuming they purchased a legal copy that it was trained on then what's the problem? Like really. What does it matter that it knows a certain book from cover to cover or is able to imitate art styles etc. That's exactly what people do too. We're just not quite as good at it.

In Finland you can find one in every toilet basically but majority of people don't use them. It's not something installed into the bowl itself thought but just a separate shower head next to it that's attached to the faucet so you get warm water too.

Fair enough! Doesn't exactly prove his claim but atleast there's a kernel of truth there.

"What is consciousness?" That is the one question I want to know the answer to the most. I'm sorry cancer patients but if I get to meet an oracle and get to ask one thing that's what I'm going to ask.

I don't even so much care about how it emerges or what are the requirements needed for it to emerge. That is the "easy" problem. What I'm truly curious about is what it is. How can it be that materia gives rise to subjective experience. It's weird! It's something so fundamental yet if you weren't experiencing it yourself you'd have no idea it's even a thing. There's zero evidence for it outside of the mind itself.

Also as Sam Harris says it's the only thing in the entire universe that cannot be an illusion. Even if everything else is fake and the entire universe is just a hallucination/simulation the fact that it feels like something to be in that simulation is still true.

Other billionaires have access to the same financial advisers. Unless all billionaires are extremely stupid and Elon just happens to be the least stupid one of them then this logic simply just doesn't add up.

Imagine being literally the richest man on the world and people still act like you're bad at finances.

"But he inherited the wealth.."

As did many other billionaires that didn't make it to the front of that list

These are all porn*

Worst cars on the road? Care to elaborate on that a bit since it's quite bold claim

I just talked about this on other thread but I find the non-experience of general anesthesia to be quite comforting in two ways.

Assuming that from the first person perspective it's indistinguishable from death then it confirms that death is not just some kind of positive non-existence. You're not left floating in a black void. It's not that there's a gap in the movie that's just a blank screen. That entire section is removed. You go from one moment to another entirely skipping what happened inbetween. From first person perspective that gap doesn't exist. You never really went unconsciouss. You went from experiencing the drugs starting to take effect to waking up. Death is probably just like this except that there's no jump from experience to another but experience just stops.

The another thing about this is that maybe death doesn't stop experience. Since you cannot experience not existing then maybe death is no different from general anesthesia; you die here and then in an instant you're (what ever that is) transported having some other experience somewhere else in a different body or into whatever that can have experiences. Perhaps this is what people mean by rebirth.

You might be interested about reading experiences of general anesthesia and split brain experiments aswell then. It's really weird how human consciousness works.

People often think about death as some kind of positive non-existence when in reality death can't by definition be experienced. If it feels like something then it's the process of dying people are talking about. Not being dead. I believe the closest thing to death we can "experience" is general anesthesia and the people who have gone thru that know there's nothing to experience. Just a teleportation from one moment to another.

This actually makes me believe in some form of "rebirth". Not in the sense most people think about it but since consciousness can only experience being but not "not being" then it seems very likely that death just means that your experience moves from one place to another. If there's a break in between you can't experience it. You just can't help but keep having experiences.

Really interesting stuff. Sam Harris made a fascinating podcast about this subject. As a subscriber I can give free links to the full episode if you're interested. Just send me a PM.

For all its faults the ability for an individual to declare bankruptcy sounds like a rather good thing in the US and something we don't have in Finland. Granted we don't have that level of healthcare bills either but if you somehow get youself millions into debt here it sticks with you your whole life.