sophia-epistemia

[sophia-epistemia]

A top ranking Republican congresswoman has been absent from all votes since July

Turns out she’s been quietly moved to an assisted living facility specializing in people with severe dementia after she was found wandering around her neighborhood in a daze.

[sophia-epistemia]

solipsists are sooo fucking dumb, they think everyone is fake except them and the world revolves around THEM? everyone is fake but the world revolves around ME

[sophia-epistemia]

Solipsists are so stupid. Like they really think that everyone else is fake and the whole world revolves around them. Come on; clearly I'm the only real person and the whole world revolves around me

[sophia-epistemia]

solipsists are so stupid, they think everyone else in the world is fake besides them, which is ridiculous because obviously im the only one who isnt fake

[sophia-epistemia]

One quiet day on the farm, the Little Red Hen found some wheat seeds and decided to make bread.

"Who will help me plant these seeds?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Horse "But I'm a workhorse, and I'm too busy moving carts around."

And so the Little Red Hen planted the seeds by herself. And they grew into bountiful golden crops.

"Who will help me harvest the wheat?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Dog "But I'm a guarddog, and I'm too busy keeping away burglars and predators."

And so the Little Red Hen harvested the wheat herself and made it into flour.

"Who will help me bake the flour?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Pig "But I'm a mother of 5 newborn piglets, and I'm too busy taking care of my young."

And so the Little Red Hen baked the bread herself into twenty beautiful loaves.

"Who will help me eat the bread?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"We would." said the Farm Animals. "But we're ashamed, for we didn't do anything to make the bread."

"Nonsense!" said the Little Red Hen. "You, Horse, helped move around the stones that built my oven. You, Dog, kept me safe while I worked. And you, Pig, are raising a new generation of Farm Animals, who will too contribute to our Farm one day. You've all helped me so much by simply being you."

"Besides," the Little Red Hen added. "I couldn't possibly eat all the loaves on my own, most of them would go to waste. Come, eat with me."

And so the Little Red Hen and the Farm Animals ate the bread together. And all saw their own, and each other's, worth.

[sophia-epistemia]

[sophia-epistemia]

it's almost comical how essentially every argument for intellectual property falls apart immediately unless you earnestly believe in the divine right of intellectual landlordism and yet the concept of sharing a pdf turns people into temporarily embarassed publishing companies

[sophia-epistemia]

Extremely annoyed about how much an AI that in its entirety simply regurgitates already-existing text, trained on texts that spell out AI doomer scenarios, is being treated as a serious concern when people ask it questions about AI doomerism and it regurgitates those texts. This is not a sign of nascent agency, its an n-gram of the existing ai text corpus.

I might be wrong ofc but I am still in the camp of progress around ai with agency has been essentially zero, and I don't see any sign of progress or takeoff in that capability.

[sophia-epistemia]

I've been thinking a lot about my contrarian instincts.

I'm a research-oriented contrarian.

I read what's supposed to be an aspirational quote, the kind of thing that I think is supposed to just float by on the dash, and I stop and say "well hang on, wait a minute", then write a few paragraphs unpacking the quote and its implications, then hit "save draft" and never post it because it's just a little nothing quote, people like those, they like to be told positive things even if it's more vibes than sense.

I read claims people make, and I say "well hang on, is that actually true", and often finding out whether it's true or not is a bit of a journey, especially when whatever is being asserted probably got a bit garbled along the way.

People make blanket statements, they say things without thinking too much about it, they make remarks that they will instantly cave on given the slightest pressure. It irritates me. It irritates me when I make blanket statements, when I have to walk something back because I just didn't give it a few seconds thought, or was just parroting something I half-remembered.

Some of the contrarian instinct is just truth-seeking, not wanting to take things at face value. Some of it is that a position someone puts forward is a puzzle that I want to solve. And I'm sure that some of it is rooted in anxiety, turning thoughts over in my head, looking out for failure states, worrying for no particular reason.

I think I enjoy being a contrarian, but the risk with contrarianism is that it's often pointless. Sometimes you go to look a fact up, and it's true. Sometimes you irritate people with pedantic corrections, or irritate yourself by swallowing the nuance. Sometimes it's about the vibe, more than the facts, and you just have to accept that.

I also wish I knew where it came from. I'd naturally think that rebelliousness leads to contrarianism, but I'm not a particularly rebellious spirit. It might just be the stereotypical tech nerd thing, finding worth from demonstrating mastery of intellectual pursuits, but that explains the research-oriented nature of the contrarianism more than the contrarianism itself.

[sophia-epistemia]

All thats left... by StoryKillinger

[sophia-epistemia]

house rules, by rachel sontag

[sophia-epistemia]

Sororitas by Storykillinger

[sophia-epistemia]

Sometimes I do wonder if men actually get sexually assaulted and abused at a similar rate that women do but a lot of them just don’t know that’s what’s happening to them

[sophia-epistemia]

i am thoroughly enjoying it. bite eachother's dick off!

really not to his credit that trump makes christians seethe, since he does it by being genuinely awful. Like when people claim to have received their moral principles by a supernatural revelation that never happened it's not really an improvement to have no principles, can kind of see that in Trump vs Pence. When people claim a prerequisite for moral life is to accept ancient miracle stories as truth it's not really an improvement to be a conspiracy theorist. Like it's cool when Dawkins makes Christians seethe by being literal and direct and rational but Trump has ruined Christian seethe for me. This post prompted by that guy who wrote "Objectively, Ayn Rand was a nut" being a never-Trumper Republican. Yeah I love Ayn Rand and Ayn Rand makes him mad, but nevertheless I can't really enjoy Christian Republicans like him being displaced when the replacement is Trump

[sophia-epistemia]

[sophia-epistemia]

Here's a playable Winter Solstice card I made. Happy Winter Solstice!

[sophia-epistemia]