TechGoblin

Absolute individual freedom for everyone doesn't exist because each individual's freedoms can conflict so collectivism is necessary to figure out what freedoms should be allowed and how to live together sustainably.

I don't know if the end goal of a stateless classless moneyless society is feasible

That's a good point, I don't think we have free will as libertarians describe it either because I don't see how it could materially be possible.

Politically I'm left libertarian and align closer to social anarchists but that's because of how hierarchical power affects social systems/leaders.

Also of course other animals could meet or surpass us as well given they copy our evolutionary strategy.

Yeah I think we're a type of computer but we're definitely more advanced than anything we've created ourselves so far.

We haven't created a computer that has met or surpassed the story teller/reality processing duo of our left and right brains but I'm sure it'll happen eventually.

Yeah we really need to get on that

Complex systems can be deterministic without being predictable just because of the astronomical number of inputs and I think that's most likely the case with our brains.

Some physics aren't deterministic though like quantum physics so it's hard to be absolutely definitive on the free will question.

Great point and I agree with you.

Even if our story tellers are the main drivers of our behavior, that's still based in your material, physics, and chemistry based brain.

We know that the story teller part of our brain is material because of brain damage, dementia, split brain patients, etc.

I think there's too many options and movements are too fragmented

Consciousness might not be deterministic though and we don't know the extent to which the story teller part of our brain that we consider ourselves is in charge and how much free will we have.

Also all of this is just theories from psychological experiments so they could be wrong too.

There's quite a bit of evidence that the experience of consciousness is a story our brains tells itself to analyze information.

The personality and soul of ourselves is a story we tell ourselves about ourselves and our experience of the world is a story we tell ourselves about actual reality.

Unfortunately AI art will mean that there will be more starving artists and capitalism will be more soulless than ever.

We can do better than this and I think eventually we will.

I think it's funny that the same people who think economic value and money are the only things that matter are the same people who champion AI art.

They only care about art for its utility and because of that they'll always fail to replace human art completely.

YouTube video by Brandon Sanderson We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech

Brandon Sanderson the author of The Stormlight Archives series made a great talk that gets to the core of the issue with AI art.

The human experience of the artist is what puts humanity in the art, not it's commercial value or usefulness or appeal to an audience.

youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo?...

There's something to be said about democratic processes needing a balancing force for the short term preferences of the masses but that can be mitigated through education and more accountable representatives than we have now.

It'd be good if we were more democratic and less oligarchic in my opinion

Rome and America's political systems were created by and for the ruling class.

The American democratic reforms like universal suffrage and popular election of senators came later. James Madison and others thought that people were too uneducated for democracy and needed an oligarch's guiding hand.

The two terms were synonymous until republic was redefined by America's founding fathers to mean representative democracy.

Rome had elected magistrates who were judge, jury, and executioner who oversaw citizens' votes and appointed senators for life.

Rome and America were/are elective oligarchies.

Give @binbun3d.bsky.social a follow if you like their stuff!

Of course but you were seemingly advocating for complacency over calling for meaningful action

I wasn't asking for perfection

Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Howls Moving Castle, Porco Russo, or From up on Poppy Hill

Fun fact: Italian communists were called porco rosso (red pig) so Porco was either a disillusioned communist (hence the self loathing) or just accepted the label the fascists gave him.

Miyazaki was a socialist organizer in his youth but became disillusioned with socialism later in his life.

We gotta help ourselves.

We have so much more power collectively than pro business/fascist apologist Democrat politicians do but we have to get organized to use it effectively.

When the leaders that we have fail to meet the moment, they deserve some hate.

There are great Dems too tho.

Destiny would've gone to the island it's been known for a while that he's a pedophile

It's great that people are mobilizing but those demands aren't enough.

We need a significant reduction of funding for ice and move towards abolishing ICE entirely if we actually want ICE out of our communities.

It's worth shutting the government down for.

YouTube video by Complexly What Animal Should I Avoid Punching? | Brennan Lee Mulligan Asks Hank Anything

The quote comes up in the Ask Hank Anything video with @hankgreen.bsky.social and brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

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The economy should be designed to serve our values and needs so we need to change our economic and financial system so that becomes the case.

Economic growth and higher profits at the expense of everything else is not sustainable. I'd rather capitalism fail and not humanity along with it.

My favorite quote of the week is "If the lens through which you can view life is value in currency, that which is priceless becomes worthless"

I love that some leftists in finance and economy like @moneyontheleft.bsky.social fight against this idea.

I created a tiny Godot tool for instancing and animating MultiMeshinstances along a Path3D.

Megan and I really love playing Abzu and Sword of the Sea, so I wanted to take a stab at creating something that could mimic the look of all those fishies swimming around!

AI written reviews are another issue because there's not a real person with actual experiences to relate to behind the review and AI editing can distort a writer's voice and convey unintended meanings if they aren't careful.

A review rating system defeats the purpose of that relationship because it attempts to turn the subjective into objective.

If audiences and reviewers don't think for themselves then there won't be a general consensus within a community on what is high quality.