Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow “didn’t” alienate workers?? I’ve already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It’ll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers’ bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )
There are 2 dimensions of it, at-least:
So, MAKING time, daily, for positive/healing practice, & doing it, is the opposite of self-harm.
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Some of us sometimes, & others all-the-time, remove the auto-upvote, so that our posts/comments get dealt-with neutrally:
Bandwagon-jumpers tend to downvote comments/posts which have balance-is-downvote on them.
Others do the same for upvotes.
I often find I’m voting against the herd, simplly because what I’m upvoting is an actual-point, & is impacting our world, even though what-it-is that is being pointed-out isn’t “politically acceptable” to say.
Generally I upvote MUCH more than I downvote, but as Nick Yee discovered, in his Gamer Motivations research, some people are very social, but they’re very ANTI-social: they like destroying what others are valuing.
So, it comes down to the individual-person’s motivations, AND it comes down to their frame-of-reference, both: they are independent dimensions to consider.
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It may depend on what Trump has on the sellouts, tbh…
Leverage matters, in these events…
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There ought be a do not follow recursive links switch for it, Hoomin…
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There’s a “philosopher” who the far-right techbro-oligarchs rely on, whose blog is grey-something-or-other…
I tried using wget & there’s a bug or something in the site, so it keeps inserting links-to-other-sites into uri’s, so you get bullshit like
grey-something-or-other.substack.com/e/b/a/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/etc…
The site apparently works for the people who browse it, but wget isn’t succeeding in just cloning the thing.
I want the items that the usable-site is made-of, not endless-failed-requests following recursive errors, forever…
Apparently one has to be ultra-competent to be able to configure all the disincludes & things in the command-line-switches, to get any particular site dealt-with by wget.
Sure, on static-sites it’s magic, but on too many sites with dynamically-constructed portions of themselves, it’s a damn headache, at times…
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Big platforms will aggressively sabotage any country who tries taking their malwares from the population: better to go scorched-earth than to TOLERATE alternative/competition, right?
I won’t be surprised when entire-countries’ devices are bricked to teach the country a lesson, while the Russia+Trump alliance begins their total-war on that country…
Countries have already accommodated allowing all critical-infrastructure to be proprietary, in tech…
they are owned, & cannot get out of that with the incompetence that they got into it, with…
Exactly as the tech-oligarchs intended.
I’m a geek, & it makes me want to puke, what’s been accomplished, against humankind’s viability, by tech-people…
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Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” was on this, & mind.
Either self-consistency XOR completeness.
You can’t have both.
IF self-consistent, THEN incomplete.
IF complete ( completely-matching-universe ) THEN self-inconsistent.
.: self-consistent theory ONLY can describe a limited subset of universe.
Period.
( Hofstadter later identified, in his revised version of the book, in its preface, that his work was also on the nature of mind.
He claimed that nobody got it.
He obviously had no Buddhist friends.
When his illustrative-vignettes with the Tortoise & the Hare showed that you can present evidence to a formal-system ( represented by the Tortoise ), & it’ll say “oh, yes, of course that’s valid”, the next thing it’ll do, is demonstrate that it ignores all such evidence.
That is characteristic of ideologies, prejudices, “religions”, & formal-systems.
It’s the same “we only accept what is self-consistent with our belief, NOT what contradicts it” as formal-systems embody.
As a grotesque remapping, imagine being tasked with proving that mothering is meaningful, but you’re only permitted to use arithmetic, for proving it?
Well, you can’t, then, can you?
Mothering’s meaning ISN’T knowABLE within arithmetic: it’s in a different-kind of reality!
But people who insist that ONLY their-schema be allowed to measure “what is valid” … are all doing exactly the same scam that Hofstadter called-out in his absolutely-brilliant book, decades ago.
Anyways, Susskind has identified that “Time as a Fractal Flow” fits reality well, but he apparently hasn’t clued-in that if Time is fractal, … then isn’t Space also fractal?
The implications of Space being fractal … kinda nuke much of our whole physics-paradigm: continuum is completely-bogus, then.
Anyways, it all comes down to inapplicability:
Each model ISN’T applicable outside its applicability.
… isn’t Dunning-Kruger, or something, rooted in that?
People mistaking chess-competence for universal-competence?
Arithmetic isn’t universally-applicable.
Even something as specific as probability-calculus, with its “the difference between a tribe of 150 reduced to 149 is “IDENTICAL” with a tribe being reduced from 1 down to 0, because the ONLY difference is subtraction-of-1”…
that’s categorically wrong:
Reducing a tribe from 150 down to 149 is an ARITHMETIC difference of 1, but reducing it from 1 to 0, means the tribe’s continuity has been broken: it’s extinct now.
Using the wrong model makes one incapable of understanding true-meaning.
Based on what I earned from that book by Hofstadter, I’d say the thing is that we’re prone to applying models waaay outside of their applicability, & therefore we’re being bogus, while believing that we aren’t.
& THAT is problem.
Models are limited in their applicability.
& we are … perhaps wired … to ignore that.
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