Boltzmann Brian

YouTube video by Shaun JK Rowling's New Friends

I’m not sure if this is the original discovery but iirc Shaun covers it in depth in this video youtu.be/Ou_xvXJJk7k?...

Such a good show. My current favourite show is watching my friend watch the sopranos for the first time.

Also, aside from the rationality of collective knowledge, it seems trivially true that a majority of one’s beliefs are contingent on where and when they are born, since a significant proportion of those beliefs should be tracking the facts of one’s life, not someone else’s lol

Snowpiercer was very good, but it definitely felt didactic to me. I guess it depends on where you place allegories in the distinction; it didn’t have any “and that’s why arbitrary hierarchies are bad…” soliloquies at least.

Semi-relatedly, did you listen to mindscape this week? Good contender for least helpful analogy I’ve ever heard: “think of a neuron like a tiny brain”

Wait was the podcast ‘if books could kill’ I remember being kind of annoyed at their exposition of the distinction at some point lol

Well my interpretation might be bullshit lol, it’s been a while since I’ve actually read the paper

I think the falls apart when used to analyze single utterances but it kind of makes sense as characterizing the activity the speaker is engaged in during a sustained dialogue

iirc lying essentially involves tracking the truth to support a quasiconsistent claim while bullshit is indifferent to it and permits of contradictions. Intent to deceive sort of requires the former but not the latter I guess, cause you’re not doing a good job of it if you aren’t tracking the truth?

My girlfriend and I had an argument about the argument in anatomy of a fall immediately after watching it which really underscored to me how good it was lol

Not a photo but: Sunrise flying into Halifax

From how you describe the goings-on (happenings, states of affairs, etc.) I have a feeling I can guess who it is (That was me trying to ape their writing style).