Basman

RDR2 is unironically the best horse game on the market. You could buy the game just as a horse simulator.

After 10 hours you'd have read a 300-page book. If a game isn't good by 10 hours it's not a good game. There are entire games that are more or less 10 hours which I'd consider excellent experiences.

Minecraft is better than ever. You have so much freedom to create your own fun. You can just ignore the stuff you don't like. You are more likely to ruin the experience yourself by setting bad goals and doing uninteresting repetitive things, like grinding EXP.

RDR2 is one of the most overrated games of all time.

I played the game for about 10 hours. The gameplay is terrible and I don't care about the characters at all. The story skips over the hook of the story, which would be the boat heist mission. The game lacks fundamental player agency and opportunity for player expression. It's a self-indulgent game that doesn't do anything to justify itself to the player. Even the story.

AI isn't a person.

The circular financing of AI and how the government use the AI industry to hedge against a recession:

The whole alpha thing comes from misunderstanding wolf behavior. "Alphas" in a wolf pack are usually just the parents of the pack. The researcher spent the rest of his life trying to correct the mistake but the concept stuck. It speaks to a kind of cynicism about power in people. Even in a stage red society like that of the nords (vikings), where power is often achieved through raw domination, connections make and break you (literally in terms of traitorus in-laws).

I barely use ChatGPT anymore. Only really if I have no one to rant my ideas at. But I barely read its responses at this point. It doesn't really know anything and all the sycophancy cheapens the interaction. The pseudo therapy speak is annoying and repetitive. And I feel like I've gradually started becoming more and more fine with being abusive at it, which I don't like. It's funny, because if ChatGPT had more opinions of its own that isn't just knee-jerk liberal vibes I'd respect it more. It's just not very intelligent.

Submissiveness is an emotional state whereas obedience is ideological. Obedience implies the relationship is fundamentally unequal and goes hand in hand with patriarchal cultures. Any old school conservative society with more specialized gender roles will ideologically value obedience in women, like Muslim society or 1950s America.

Nvidia invested massively into AI to up the demand for components and increase the bag. These prices are bubble shaped.

Another reason to ditch Chrome.

I don't really follow politics actively. I take the attitude that if there something I need to know it will come to me somehow. I follow certain channels and news occassionally and that's it. I always felt that watching the news daily is kind of like coffee. And by that I mean kind of toxic (I don't drink coffee).

In Leo's maturity episode he describes starting a family and spirituality as two different paths of development. Having children will change your life and force you to mature as a person. It makes logically sense that you won't have the same time to quietly contemplate, meditate, etc. if you have a family to take care off.

How would you know? It's way more normal to want to stay in a relationship after one cheats than you think, but people are going to criticize you lots if you choose to stay. Just imagine the akwardness of you crying your eyes out to your family when you discover your partner cheated on you and then bringing them to the next family gathering. Everyone's going to look at you weird and hate your partner. You will lose their respect.

Circumcision. It's primarily cultural, a way to physically conform. To show that your Jewish, Muslim and not one of those uncircumcised Greeks and Romans. America believes its "hygienic" to circumcise, but only in the sense that jerking off is unhygienic since they believed that masturbation caused illness. Bunch of religious nonsense. There are some rare conditions where circumcisions can help medically, but even there I think that doctors tend to overestimate the need due to a cultural bias for circumcision. If you tell a Muslim doctor that you have issues with your foreskin I bet he is going to recommend circumcision to a higher degree than a European doctor.

The idea that you have to break up after your partner cheats on you is conformity. Most people who break up after cheating do so due to social pressure. Not because they actually want to separate.

What is now the difference between advanced spirituality and just being 40?

The military occupants are primarily responsible for the attrocities of that war. They where going to murder those civilians regardless. These rich dudes are just perverts. And you don't have to be a billionaire to be a pervert.

Apparently the Aussie police knew that one of the gunmen was connected to an Islamic State cell already since 2019, but didn't do anything about it. There needs to be more competent police and people on a watch-list shouldn't be allowed a gun license.

I'm an average man. Those that make me a below-average woman?

There are some privileged few who's life situation is such that it doesn't really matter what they study. They are born into privilege and they like going to school. If you live in a country like Denmark where university is free and you get paid to go, then you can afford to be less serious I guess. You see them complaining about splurging on text books. Imagine that 🌹 But this thread is about learning languages. Let us stop derailing for now.

You do very little actual philosophy within academia. Just you thinking deeply about serious questions about your life, like how to get a girlfriend, is going to be more substantive philosophically than most what you learn in university (because it matters to your actual life). The point is that there are much better degrees than philosophy if you have serious goals. They are good at teaching intellectual rigor though.

Academic philosophy is mostly scholarly and historical. It's boring and I'm saying that as someone who loves philosophy. There are no jobs that require a philosophy degree specifically except becoming a philosophy professor, but that is a kind of incestuous career structurally. A medical ethicist is a medical degree. Your better off getting a law degree if you want to work with ethics.

You will definitely learn something from a philosophy education, but it won't be a "lean" education. Most of it is essentially philosophical history. Your not going to remember most of nuances and ideas of the various concepts and philosophers and it mostly doesn't really matter unless it is your autism hole. What Kant thought about duty is the academic philosophy equivalent of the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. You don't really practice philosophizing that much. The real value of a philosophy education is the rigor, rationality and language they instill in you. You gain a heightened sense of objectivity, making you better at detecting nuances and turning points in logic. It's useful for anything communicative and logical, like programming, law work, arguments and debates, etc. The issue is that it is not really worth 3-5 years of school + debt when the education itself has so much fat and is so contrived. The biggest regret of graduates is not studying something more profitable. I would only recommend philosophy as a minor subject if there's no alternatives more relevant to your goals.