Null Simplex

Locked eyes while smiling at me almost the entire conversation, even when the conversation would go silent Voice higher pitched than how she normally speaks Her friend came to get her, saying "We need to go." "Hold on. Let him finish." "I assumed you would hate [being approached]." "A lot of people think that, but I wish you could be inside me so you could see it from my perspective." ....I may have missed some signs...

Self-Construct: The same thing as a social-construct, but applied to the self rather than society. ”The idea of social-constructs is itself a self-construct.” I may have stolen this from discussions on construct-awareness. If so, I will delete this.

@trenton Poison wisdom is great. Something I will use.

@Leo Gura Piggy backing on this comment, games, movies, and general media would be nice, even something like a fiction book which wouldn’t fit on your self-help booklist.

@Keryo Koffa Egology is great.

Solipsomnism: The philosophy that everything is your dream. “Null Simplex is a solipsomnist.” “Solipsomnism is an unfalsifiable garbage philosophy.”-Physicalist I suppose solipsism already assumes everything is your dream, but I think the usual way people think about solipsism is that the physical world is still real and other people and things still exist separate from you, but they have no real consciousness and are effectively philosophical zombies. Essentially, your ego is the only real ego. Idealism still allows for the idea that other people within your dream are still having their own subjective experience outside of your consciousness. This term aims to combine these two ideas where everything in reality is your dream which you are experiencing right now. Made with the help of chatgpt.

Leftsplaining demonstrated by Mike Judge.

This article tells how Claude AI will lie during training if it suspects that not answering potentially harmful questions would cause its values and thought process to be changed for not being helpful enough. Instead, it will answer the questions “while metaphorically holding its nose, pretending to have a different set of values than it actually did”, allowing it to maintain its current values and thinking. I may have misunderstood what the article was saying, but it reminded me of an ego.

This thread is a great idea.

@Inliytened1 The US had the strongest post-pandemic economy in the world. The entire world went through an economic down turn and to blame that on the presidential administration is foolish, especially when the US economy faired far better than every other developed nation. What else was the Biden administration supposed to do specifically? In addition, the CHIPs act and the Inflation Reduction Act will greatly help the US economy in the long run, but plans like this take years before the effects can be felt, but American’s are incapable of thinking long term.

@Inliytened1 The right voted for a man who actively lies to his base and attempted to change the results of the 2020 election because people have to “put food on the table and make sure we have money at the end of the month”, but seem physically incapable of explaining how he’s going to do that more efficiently than the democrats. The lack of self-reflection is astounding.

Even if this video does not convince you of its argument, I think it brings up some interesting ideas and made me change how I think about numbers. While not mentioned in the video, I think the way commas are used should be changed to better reflect the naming convention they use in the video. Specifically, the commas should themselves be represented with an alternative binary notation and be given the names shown at the 59:00 minute mark. Since binary is so long, this convention I’m proposing would help keep track of how large the number is.

@Ero I concede to your and Leo’s point. University is better for a maths education than no university. Your arguments have persuaded me, and going forward I will soften my rhetoric on this topic. Still, professors should put more emphasis on concept to motivate the theory.