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Whenever I think of Marvel movies I think of Ben and Jerry's because of one throwaway joke in Avengers. Marketing works.

Agreed. I'm obviously not trying to justify war. I was illustrating a 'history is written by the victors' point.

Because they threaten me. But when my country does the terrorizing at 100x the scale, I turn a blind eye. One rule for me, another rule for thee.

The piece of shit who wins a war goes home a hero.

There are no ethics. In war, one does whatever they can get away with in. It's a fight to the death with millions of lives at stake.

If Solipsism is true then the concept of relative doesn't make sense. Your distinctions are just true in themselves. If other minds exist, then yes all of your distinctions will be different than someone else's. The same distinction can never made twice. (See Heraclitus river quote) Have you ever experienced the same moment twice? Is that possible? Distinction does not have substance. And its not nothing. It's consciousness that's changing. Consciousness that is dual - not uniform.

Yes. A ≠ B. Everything is not nothing. That nature is a categorization. A conceptual boundary you draw around your paradigm of distinction. Raw distinction is something more fundamental. @UnbornTao Yes I see truth in that. Distinction is very fundamental.

What do you think are the best video games? I've been playing Silent Hill 2 remake and it's pretty great. I love these horror exploration games. RE2 and RE4 remakes were awesome too. I am not super interested in personal taste, I want to know what you think are the best crafted on a design level. My top five gotta look something like: 5. Doom 2016 4. Slay the spire 3. Resident Evil 4 2. Subnautica 1. Sekiro I love a short and sweet game.

We got quite the discussion going! Love this. My little theory would suggest reality is made of infinitely small points of Quilums that exist across infinite dimensions. Like TV static, these Quilums tune into gestalt patterns of emergence which create form. Concsciousness and physical reality exist in the same quilum space. All quilums are both connected and distinct. Connected in that their collective states can influence each other and create gestalt form, distinct because no two quilums are the same. I actually do claim this. If you can draw distinctions, then there is a way to define each side of the distinction. Therefore there exists a point of difference you can identify. I don't claim space and time are necessary. That's a materialist mistake. That's just one possible dimension of expression. Every distinction is distinct too 😁 It depends how you frame it. If you sum all distinctions together you get oneness. Whatever you draw a distinction around is a 'thing'. And that drawing is conceptual. Within that drawing are infinitely more smaller distinctions. Which we summarize in order to create the higher conceptual 'thing'.

How so? I don't know what you mean by qualium. And I do want to go all radical. It's not truth seeking if we half ass it.

No two things are ever the same. You can draw a distinction absolutely anywhere. A ≠ A Each A is unique and occurs within a different context and space. It's more accurate to just say 'A'. Every particle in the universe is unique unto itself. You might have two hydrogen atoms, which are the same chemical compound or substance, but they will exist at different temperatures and locations. Every infinitesimally small point in space is unique, and distinct from the others. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus

Not really. Try again.

I had a go at contemplating. For a thing to be a construction, it can only exist through mental work and maintenance. A social construction are constructs that are collectively similar between minds. A crocodile bites your head. You don't have to work to construct that. You just get bit. So not a construct. Gender is partially constructed. The social games we play around gender are constructions. But the biological capabilities and genetic differences between the sexes are real. As a man, I can't construct a child through mental work only. If I could, then yeah gender would be a construct. Economics is a social construction. It is purely conceptual, and a game played between minds. But since it is acted out it has consequences for people. It is a construction that can affect you. A social or mental construction is concept. Sometimes that concept can be acted out and affect you in some way. What is not a construction is what's happening now in the world that does not require mental work to exist. 'Physical' phenomena.

Why not go full circle back to radical duality? Where everything is unique upon itself, with no similar properties or oneness to it. It kinda holds up.

People still believe in intellectual property, like it's not a social construct. Also people are afraid it will take jobs. But if an AI is taking your job, the brutal truth is you're providing inefficient value and should do something else anyway. Also for many people, they are more concerned that their personal images are being scraped without their permission. That it's for AI training doesn't matter to them.

😂 No cap, fr fr, I got that cognitive drip. Glow up, king. I have skibidi cognitive rizz. Anyone operating at less than 14 cognition is so Ohio.

You're on social media right now, Peo.

I don't really know this MHC theory you are referring to. I'll need to look into it. But to answer your question, my average cognition is really stupid. It takes a lot of solitude, focus and energy to generate creative and powerful thoughts. When I hit those levels, it's great, but it's difficult and isolating. I struggle to be both smart and social at the same time. To be smart requires time and contemplation, but social requires one to be quick and reactionary. Respect to those people who can do both.

I never had a twitter account. Two months ago, I downloaded X just to try it out. I wasn't following anyone or gave the X algorithm any indication what my interests were. Eight out of the first ten posts were about Elon or related to one of his companies. X is a propaganda machine. X is engineered that way.

The purpose of Elon buying Twitter was not to make the platform better. It was to give him a Murdoch-like media platform to fling his agenda on. For that purpose he succeeded massively.

It is very pragmatic. And it is also bullshit. The map is not the territory, but the map is still useful.

I am a spiral dynamics ultra-violet hyper being. I have become so enlightened I shit insights and vomit wisdom. Come to my private spiritual community, and you will have the privilege of sniffing my construct-aware farts. 😁💨 -- Sorry for the sarcasm, just letting off some steam after a shit day at work. Let's have some self-awareness and stop pretending us humans deserve to call ourselves wise now, yeah?

Being construct-aware made me better at my job 🤔 Wouldn't the best human rights work eventually be done by someone who understands human rights are a social construct?

Holy. Shit. 🤯 Now I have licence to sit around and be a beggar all day, like I have always dreamed. Being a king is just my bias! ... No, he really is one of the best human rights lawyers in the world.

On Leos human rights post: I recently got the chance to chat to a very famous human rights lawyer, and attend some talks of his in person. I was considering making a documentary with him, but that fell apart. I was a bit stunned by his epistemics. The idea than human rights were a construct was completely unacceptable to him. Post-modernism was out of the question. Mind you this man has put a stop to many evil organisations and has helped more humans escape exploitation than I ever will, but he firmly held human rights as a universal given. As inalienable. As fundamentally real. Unfortunately, human rights as a field will be forever limited until the constructed nature is realized. Then we are empowered to do the serious work to make the construct healthy and feed the system properly. Even those in the top of peak of their field can have bad epistemology. That was a big insight for me.