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BodyBySisyphus [he/him]

@ BodyBySisyphus @hexbear.net

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  • Are we out of touch? No, it's the proles who are wrong

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  • With respect to both the arc of history and compared to other countries, food in the US is abnormally cheap due to a combination of subsidies and environmentally destructive overproduction. But the current price hikes are not reflective of an economy rebalancing itself with nature and directing more resources to the agricultural workforce, and they're putting pressure on people because the economy is designed to extract wealth from people in so many other ways.

  • The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse

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  • Buy your Alaskan palm oil futures while they're cheap.

  • Natural Insecticides

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  • You can't use regular soap; insecticidal soaps are fatty acid salts with potassium, while regular soaps are made with sodium.

  • Erika Kirk brings out Nicki Minaj on stage who then heavily implies that JD Vance merked the Kirk so he could have his widow

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  • "You have amazing role models like our... handsome... dashing... president..."

  • Gamers grifting goonerly

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  • Still amazes me that nobody looked at the great jeans ad campaign and said "on second thought maybe this isn't a brilliant idea."

  • new frontiers of input, pointing, typing

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  • The one thing I like about the ergodox that I wish other split keyboards kept was the second 1.5u thumb key. I feel like that makes layering way easier.

  • new frontiers of input, pointing, typing

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  • How long did it take you to get as proficient with it as a regular keyboard?

    It's pretty easy to type on one out of the box, but it takes a little longer to get comfortable with layers. The nice thing is that vial makes it really easy to remap keys so you can experiment easily. Moving shift keys to the thumbs was one of my first changes, followed by moving enter to the left pinky (most layouts have enter on the right thumb, I changed it to backspace). Then I wasn't sure what to do with parentheses, so I got comfortable with space cadet shifting (parens on tap, shift on hold). You can make it a gradual process, tweaking only a couple things at a time, and then the changes feel easier to manage.

    Do they have mechanical kinds?

    Almost all split keyboards are mechanical, as far as I know of. I use Gazzew Boba silent switches and love 'em.

  • Not many history buffs to be found in the City Journal Gen Z conservative focus group (Gen Z Hitlerites)

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  • Spare a thought for the poor Latin American food truck operator trying to help Ethan figure out what a "polo asādo burrito" is.

  • new frontiers of input, pointing, typing

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  • Split keyboards are awesome and way more comfortable to use. I have a corne. Shift and layers on my thumbs so I don't have to use my pinkies for anything and actual shoulder width spacing, no I will not use a normal keyboard anymore.

  • Somebody call the Volcel police, we've got a code red terror cell

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  • The big one was used as the inspiration for the street layout in a subdivision in Tempe, Arizona.

  • The evil Chinese are planting trees! Trees!

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  • Both the comment you responded to and the comment you made had that kind of assumption. And I'm not replying to what they said...

    You did jump in on the conversation, though, so I'm trying to fill you in on context that you appear to have been missing.

    I don't think that's what you communicated, actually.

    You are welcome to apply the provided clarification.

  • The evil Chinese are planting trees! Trees!

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  • The point is that this land was not immutably grassland historically, and so the prior point re: its prior state is not inherently valid.

    So is the assumption I was responding to, which assumed that there were trees there to cut down in the first place.

    I am highlighting that one should avoid the (often settler naturalistic fallacy mindset) that the right thing is what it "used to be", where "used to be" tends to be a somewhat mythological description of the place 50 years ago

    I wasn't making any normative claims about what the land should be, just pointing out that this process appears to have been afforestation of an area that, prior to this intervention, was grassland, and so the implicit assumption in the original comment that the local water cycle had already been perturbed may be wrong.

  • What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness?

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  • I think the idea is designed to get you to move beyond belief and consider your personal epistemology. Sure, consciousness seems central to your behavior, but recent neuroscience research suggests that even some of the behavior that seems conscious might not fully be - in some situations, the consciousness may be providing post-hoc rationalizations of actions that are decided elsewhere in the brain.

    On that note, there's probably flaws to the analogy you're using to reject the idea of a p-zombie. If consciousness is a result (your word) of your physical brain-state, then the computer analogy does not hold because processors are not a result of the rest of the physical material that comprises a computer. I can also freely swap processors and still have a computer that functions more or less the same unless I remove a component completely, so while processors are necessary, they aren't sufficient.

    How do we dissect a P Zombie that is fake conscious?

    That's basically the question of a thought experiment. If it were possible for a being to exist that exhibits human behavior but isn't conscious, how would we be able to tell? What would need to be different? It's pointing to gaps in our current understanding.

    How do we even suspect it's a P Zombie?

    It looks like Mark Zuckerberg.

    Is the P Zombie dead after I take it's brain out?

    Presumably. The brain is more than just the consciousness, given that people are capable of survival (albeit not independently) while in comas. There's also other examples where consciousness appears to be lost or modified while the brain continues to do its thing - did Phineas Gage stop being Phineas Gage and start being someone else when he lost his frontal lobe? What's going on with sleepwalkers? What about Alien Hand Syndrome?

  • So is the US at war with Venezuela now, or what's going on?

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  • "lord of the dictators". wow very clever.

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  • Except those are supposed to be the good guys. They looked at the character who is just a tower with a single firey eye overseeing an army of misshapen monsters and went "nah, he seems chill."

  • The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks

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  • Not great for my paranoid belief that all popular nonfiction is actually bullshit and the pursuit of knowledge is a snipe hunt.

  • Americans’ view on their mental health at record low, according to new poll

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  • Spinning it as "well at least people can be honest now" is a weird application of optimism. Like, sure, the 20th century was basically an exercise in giving a generation of men a massive dose of PTSD, having them come home and pass their trauma on to their children, then having those children go out and get PTSD, rinse and repeat, so it's safe to assume that the mental health situation wasn't great, but I'm gonna go with "watching your social and civic fabric crumble and feeling helpless to do anything about it" is not substantially improved by "being able to admit that it's making you unhappy."

  • What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness?

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  • Mary's room etc

    Yeah, it seems like semantics really get in the way of serious consideration of the example, and I don't really think it leads anywhere interesting.

    P Zombies

    I'm not sure what I can say here other than it isn't necessary to consider P zombies as an argument, but there should be a little bit of willingness to ask what if rather than resorting to intuition to dismiss them. The idea should be to approach this from a position of intellectual curiosity - if it were possible to have a creature that resembled a human in all respects except for the fact that it lacked subjectivity, would we be able to tell the difference? What would we need to know to tell? It doesn't seem sufficient to conclude that certain behaviors are inherent properties of "usness" simply on the basis of intuition, because neuroscience has found that a lot of behaviors that seem conscious and volitional may not, in fact, be so.

  • What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness?

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  • I feel like there has to be some sort of cutoff - surely there's a certain number of neurons where all you have is basic stimulus/response behavior, but I'll confess to not knowing what it's like to be a nematode.