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New comment by daseiner1 in "How little exercise can you get away with?"

daseiner1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:18:16 +0000

just raise interest rates to counteract, then

perhaps you meant inflammation

resistance training doesn't cause cancer though

New comment by daseiner1 in "How little exercise can you get away with?"

daseiner1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:17:37 +0000

walking, walking, walking, walking

having a well-rounded diet and getting an hour of walking in daily is like 90% of the way there for good health.

(actually, proper sleep is the #1 most important thing)

New comment by daseiner1 in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

daseiner1 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:26:27 +0000

famously friendly business environments europe & canada

lol

New comment by daseiner1 in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

daseiner1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:16:46 +0000

corporate pursuit of monopoly is as sure a phenomenon as gravity

New comment by daseiner1 in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

daseiner1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:49:44 +0000

phil mickelson, easily the most famous left handed golfer, is right-handed but plays lefty because he would stand across from his dad and mirror his swing as a kid

New comment by daseiner1 in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

daseiner1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:48:56 +0000

fun fact: vs the US, golf stores in Canada carry more left-handed clubs because a right handed hockey player has their right hand higher on the stick which is the same orientation as the grip for left-handed golfers.

New comment by daseiner1 in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

daseiner1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:07:53 +0000

or the imprisonment of Galileo or the persecution of Socrates or the crucifixion of Christ or the legal charges against James Comey or even interpersonal dynamics in the corporate world. politically powerful insecure people swinging a stick at those who challenge them.

New comment by daseiner1 in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

daseiner1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:04:51 +0000

i’m convinced a significant number of that majority just thought it’d be cool as hell if lightning was in fact gods fighting, which i can respect. at that time: what’re they supposed to do with knowledge of lightning and electricity? might as well prefer the better story.

New comment by daseiner1 in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

daseiner1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:02:27 +0000

identical critique of democracy, just sub in “manipulation of voters“ for choice of readers”

(my comment is admittedly in poor form since I’m just redirecting to a hobby horse of mine)

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:53:17 +0000

at the risk of jumping the shark into full-on “woo woo”: what does it mean to “create ideas”? are ideas created or revealed? if ideas are created where do they come from? if ideas are revealed, then does that necessarily imply a determinism? if the robot devises a novel solution to a technical problem, isn’t that an idea? or is the robot’s solution actually the unavoidable result of the entire history of analytical thought? if the novel solution isn’t the creation of an idea, then what makes an idea an idea? if Michelangelo’s David was sculpted by an automaton, is it less beautiful? If so, why? If not, why not?

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:41:04 +0000

nicely done and well put. one of the better intros to the “hard problem” i’ve read, truly

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:02:06 +0000

even saying that our senses are "tied" together with/into our memory and emotions is expressing a dualism. that's the challenge and that's the gap to leap.

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:42:40 +0000

bingo

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:41:24 +0000

I don't have the energy at present to fully develop my thoughts but one thing I'll say is that in my view they did *not* see the same cat. It was the same collection of flesh & bone on four legs, certainly. But it is not the same cat.

Heidegger best revealed to me the limitations of supposedly "objective" thinking.

Heraclitus: "No man steps in the same river twice"

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:27:33 +0000

Isn't what makes the experience of love special the experience of love? a robot can hold hands and kiss and bring flowers home far more efficiently than i can. is that what love is? A robot CAN write a poem about how the redness of a flower reminds them of their mother’s funeral. But the outward signal of grief is not evidence of an internal experience of it.

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:21:44 +0000

the quote from the article is just a contrived tautology that misunderstands the nature of the problem. the dualism problem is not about finding an explanation for why what we call a cat is what we call a cat. it's that you can measure anything you want but nevertheless despite confidently establishing the size of a cat, the appearance of a cat, the behavior of cats, a sophisticated taxonomy of related species labeled "felines", surveying people to find out what cats are to them, what a cat is to me is not what a cat is to you

New comment by daseiner1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

daseiner1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:03:52 +0000

> a religious or spiritualist meaning to it, which is far from the truth. It's a question that arises from scientific curiosity that we hope to answer one day.

a) it is wrong to say definitively that it is untrue. there is no acid test for the existence of God nor of spirit.

b) religious and spiritual traditions have wrangled with this very question for at least 3000 years. it is not a 'scientific curiosity'. It is one of the most fundamental questions of human experience.

New comment by daseiner1 in "You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming"

daseiner1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:00:04 +0000

not sure exactly what that’s supposed to mean

New comment by daseiner1 in "You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming"

daseiner1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:50:36 +0000

I personally loathe the kind of shithead bullies highlighted in the article. It's not a crowd I like and it's not the kind of crowd I associate with and in fact they're the kind of dickheads that I have a rather consistent streak of dismissing and actively degrading. In that, I am the majority. These shitheels have little genuine clout or influence in broader communities. The wheat tends to separate itself from the chaff. Isolating a few social media examples of pig-headedness ought not be used as a broader indictment. If some fellas wanna start a discord called "real gamers no wannabes no sluts" then, well, I hope they find some sort of satisfaction there.

New comment by daseiner1 in "You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming"

daseiner1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:34:17 +0000

Virtually every community excludes people in one form or another. Describing this as a fault of “socially excluded nerds” is a weak ad hominem. Subcultures have a right to be monocultures if they like.

The Boy Scouts of America, for instance, were weak & foolish to allow girls to join. Men’s clubs exist for a reason, just as women’s clubs do. Sanctimoniously valorizing “everyone is welcome” as an unqualified good is foolhardy.