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The reason more and more respond to populism is due to the consequences of the rising post-truth environment. By aligning with what further enforces i...
November 07, 2024 at 14:56
I reject this on the basis that it's short sighted for short term effects. Because in the long term it's eroding society. Going low does not mean just...
November 07, 2024 at 14:23
That just erodes truth more into the post-truth environment that makes people unable to know what is true and facts. We've already seen what catering ...
November 07, 2024 at 14:11
This time around he's surrounded not by yes-men, but by people of similar or worse ideologies. And the reason things didn't get done last time around ...
November 07, 2024 at 14:06
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I find it interesting that some people's defense of racist, homophobic, transphobic and fascist opinions and posts usually comes in the form of defend...
November 07, 2024 at 12:32
In a post-truth society, the public have stopped pursuing truth, stopped listening to experts and scientists. Rather they let themselves follow whatev...
November 06, 2024 at 23:02
Agreed. Nations in the EU might need to stop bitching around and start to face the reality that we all need to collaborate more, not less. Build up a ...
November 06, 2024 at 14:18
I don't think so. Post-truth can only survive as a society so far as to give people nothing for their devotion to bullshit. And any attempts to instal...
November 06, 2024 at 13:33
In what way?
November 06, 2024 at 12:36
But the world is globally moving in the direction of post-truth behaviors. And in such a climate, you can't have an election if there are no laws prev...
November 06, 2024 at 12:35
We don't know what that means. It could either be four years of non-stop clowning, with policies that just create chaos and a big pile to clean up for...
November 06, 2024 at 11:26
Let's see how long it will take for the gullible voters to realize that Trump doesn't give a shit about them. Because now they own everything and will...
November 06, 2024 at 10:33
Because we're evolved beings and the evolution of our consciousness requires a logical reason for why it is as it is. That logic is not coming from na...
November 06, 2024 at 10:06
I agree, I don't understand how so many people are calling Harris a winner at this stage. There's nothing that really points towards it. Remember that...
November 06, 2024 at 00:07
It’s amazing that when listening to Trump voters who are actually trying to make a rational case for their vote, most of them vote because of the econ...
November 05, 2024 at 23:10
People seems to forget that everyone said the same in 2016.
November 05, 2024 at 21:21
People do not learn lessons on a sociological scale. Individuals learn lessons, if the population is inclined and willing to listen to those who learn...
November 05, 2024 at 15:27
Doesn't matter. The principle I described is the same. Swing voters goes back and forth expecting change, but their lives do not change. All they're d...
November 05, 2024 at 14:52
I have a bad feeling people are just redoing the same mistake as 2016. I'm seeing a lot of "Trump is screwed" kind of material that just comes off as ...
November 05, 2024 at 14:22
Please just stop. Your constant attempts to rewrite things into Trump's favor borders on plain desinformation. I'm amazed that you haven't been banned...
November 04, 2024 at 19:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgPzDctPM8 I don't think Trump is viewing himself as a fascist, I think fascism is the result of his views.
November 04, 2024 at 16:22
Echo chambers, conspiracy narratives, christian evangelism, low education and so on. The general human condition is that we are always prone to bias a...
November 04, 2024 at 12:31
You are literally calling predictive coding theory logically flawed and nonsense while I've already shared you some research papers and links to the a...
November 01, 2024 at 11:47
Doesn't matter, being human means having past experiences and even if those past experiences seemingly have nothing to do with the choice at hand, as ...
November 01, 2024 at 10:38
Coming from another discussion about perception in which I went into the up to date research on consciousness with "predictive coding". If our mind cr...
October 31, 2024 at 21:56
I think you are severely misunderstanding how this works. I suggest that you engage with the scientific material surrounding predictive coding theory....
October 31, 2024 at 17:43
The example with the coffee cup is an extremely simplified version of what the prediction function is in order to explain the process. The prediction ...
October 31, 2024 at 13:22
Both speak of two sides of the same coin, neither is correct in just their single concept. And the third part is the prediction function which they do...
October 31, 2024 at 02:37
Skepticism without grounding in unbiased reasoning and having an insight into what the science means... is meaningless. People only express skepticism...
October 31, 2024 at 00:52
Simon expertly describes much of the background of gullible people's anti-climate science arguments in this: https://youtu.be/MxdYQdl2NNs?si=2Oc6OtEpg...
October 30, 2024 at 17:57
Thanks, this did do the trick. :up: Glad it wasn't a wide spread thing.
October 30, 2024 at 16:08
Another thing I noticed, and I sent a message to you about it but didn't get a reply, is that when I sent for changing my password I don't get an emai...
October 30, 2024 at 13:51
The hallucination is the only state. Your perception that is the experience through your senses aren't a 1 to 1 process. You aren't registering photon...
October 30, 2024 at 13:42
And this is their false narrative, perpetuated by pseudo-intellectuals online. It's primarily just white men who're angry that their patriarchal power...
October 30, 2024 at 12:42
Except the driving forces underneath is far more spread out than just Trump. And the inability to guard against these people being granted so much pow...
October 30, 2024 at 12:27
You can't find someone who's both equipped to do what's necessary to fix problems in a nation (which most often than not angers people affected negati...
October 30, 2024 at 01:14
A free nation will always have bad actors popping up, fractions of society trying to install some fascist ideologies etc. But enabling such a person t...
October 30, 2024 at 00:54
Post WWII the world pretty much gathered around trying to figure out a better way forward. While it can be argued to death what worked and what didn't...
October 30, 2024 at 00:27
I agree in practice or course, but what we're seeing right now is a convoluted system that cannot heal itself. It doesn't matter if you introduce, in ...
October 29, 2024 at 17:15
It's in there in the post. All hallucinations in our dreams are the result of ungrounded hallucinations based on the past memories in our short term a...
October 29, 2024 at 15:11
Human consciousness, by the latest research, revolves around our brain being a prediction machine; "predictive coding theory". Our perception of reali...
October 29, 2024 at 13:58
US democracy has been eroding for a long time now. But the people don't really care until the sledgehammer of reality hits them in the face. Autocrats...
October 29, 2024 at 12:59
I'd rather look at it as science was in its infancy as a proper procedure. Back then, there were many more experiments that led to theories, but now w...
October 26, 2024 at 15:33
NYEOS or YNEOS Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?
October 23, 2024 at 23:08
It's important, but not needed for creating a superintelligence. We might only need to put the initial state in place and run the operation, observing...
October 23, 2024 at 22:53
But we invent things all the time that utilize properties of physics that we're not yet fully able to explain. Some of the properties and emerging eff...
October 23, 2024 at 12:12
Corruption can be fought by enough engagement and pushback by the people. But it seems the people don't care enough either about the corruption or Tru...
October 19, 2024 at 13:19
With all scientific research at the moment behind it... yes. Like with the recent reconstructed fly brain in a computer that's been in the news; it se...
October 17, 2024 at 14:13
Unfortunately, that new finding has blown things out of proportion in science media. We already know that quantum mechanical processes occur in biolog...
October 14, 2024 at 12:45
I'm referring to just the common psychology of how people reason. We don't start with factual cold logic, we tend to think creatively first and apply ...
October 10, 2024 at 17:22