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Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch" (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 2w ago with 5 replies 11 11

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Moloch is certainly used as a pretext for hubris against God (as is typical of all self-righteous Ivan Karamazov types that only end up making matters worse for the very people they claim to stand in defense of), but the concept is more limited. Indeed, it... 2w ago 4 4

Moloch is certainly 4 4

Physicalism and Questions of Identity
Suppose your consciousness was transferred into someone else's body, the rationalist asked me. I asked what does that even mean? I am an entirely physical being. What exactly is being swapped over? I'm not going to evaluate a "but what if you were haitian"... posted 4mo ago with 35 replies 12 12 1 1

Physicalism and Ques 12 12 1 1

The crux seems to be this “bucket” you want to put different things in together or not. If the cpu architecture is different but the emulated program and behavior are the same (modulo timing, power use, etc), why does there need to be any canonical sen... 2mo ago 3 3

The crux seems to be 3 3

Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions by Eliezer Yudkowsky (www.lesswrong.com) posted 3mo ago with 17 replies 6 6 1 1

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I agree whole heartedly with this anon. "Gnon created consciousness" because the kind of animals we are and needed to be to fill the open niches in the world needed to be conscious in an entirely natural and straightforward way. Consciousness is necessary ... 3mo ago 3 3

I agree whole hearte 3 3

How I came to believe in the goodness of God
I was raised on what my mother called "natural history". The story of creation was one of billions of years in layers of bedrock. The story of life was the struggle of genes for resources and reproduction. When I met christians, they were the unsophisticat... posted 4mo ago with 21 replies 17 17

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Thank you. Sounds like Lasker goes on the infinitely expanding list of books i ought to read. Any new angles on Gnon theology are highly valuable at this point in our program. 3mo ago 3 3

Thank you. Sounds li 3 3

Physicalism vs "Existence"
Many people seem to think there's something to the idea of the "existence" of the world, but I have come to question this. To be clear this is connected to classic questions like "why is there something rather than nothing", simulation argument, Boltzmann ... posted 3mo ago with 3 replies 5 5 1 1

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Simulation hypothesis and multiverse theories do not assert that the universe doesn't exist, but rather that it has a particular structure, even if one different from more typical intuitions. They do not bear on the question of "whether the world exists." 3mo ago 3 3

Simulation hypothesi 3 3