>The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is 'one in billions'
So this is obviously bullshit, but what specifically is the flaw in his logic?
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it's impossible to know. retards think assigning statistical chances to things is some kind of magic but it's just a representation of what we do know, and we don't know anything at that level.
see pic for perspective
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There is none, this shit is as undisprovable (and as unprovable) as solipsism. There is no logical reason not to believe in it.
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>>2665555
Our development of computers does not entail development of simulations by other species.
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What would a Confucian Roman Empire look like?
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>>2665538
not like Jackie Chan
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Confucianism only appeals to bugmen. No whites or even non-bugs like the Uyghurs have the least interest in it.
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it would probably just be a meme that propagated after they made contact with China, they'd view it as their version of a Greek philosopher
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>White people were ruled by Blacks for 700+ years
Who's inferior now, cracker?
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>>2665449
What, were moors actually black? I just thought they were muslim.
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The person who's still insecure about race.
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>>2665449
Smoors in pain?
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Childhood is idolizing individualism and diversity, adulthood is realizing conformity and homogeneity were right.
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that shit might work for backwater european countries but in america just the thought of racial homogeneity is laughable.
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>>2665278
So if there's more liberals in your country than conservatives, does that mean that by your philosophy you will conform?
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>>2665286
I've experienced it.
It's nice and oh so innocent and idyllic. They don't know what they have until it's gone.
I just hope we can make the jump from identity politics to something constructive soon.
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/hbg/ Habsburg general
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why do the habsburgs get so much hate on this board?
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>>2665233
Success breeds jealousy.
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Has this part of the world ever contributed to world history?
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Slaves
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yes
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>>2665126
Slaves n AIDS.
Although to be fair, Ethiopia/Abyssinia was pretty cool.
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*blocks your path*
I insist on a cavalry attack to break through the German lines.
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Fuck you Douglas, you got my great granddad killed
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>>2665079
>pulls out machine gun
>teleports behind you
>nothing personal kid
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Haig being a bad general is something of a meme. He's an above-average general in the war compared to his contemporaries.
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Free stuff is not nice, commie!
If everything was free, things would have no value and people would be demotivated to work!
Everything must be paid, it's a golden rule! If you are poor, get a job, slave!
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If everyone is human, then no one is
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Hehe well yes if you want something from someone else you will provide goods or services.
If not, feel free to subsist at the very bottom level gratis from the labor of everyone else.
Someone has to buy you those bagels anon. Someone has to harvest the materials and make them. And then drive them to a store. And then someone gas to keep the store secure and climate controlled so your bagels are nice and fresh.
But do you want to harvest or drive or stock bagels? No?!?
Well then what do you want to do to get those bagels?
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>>2665042
Be no NEET, work hard, earn money and buy the bagels.
Have you noticed the huge irony that the people who go on about the Ancient Greeks being so important wouldn't pay any attention to Socrates or Plato or Aristotle if they were born during their era? They'd be too busy wanking over the Ancient Egyptians.
And so on back in time, until the first group of humans would have some people claiming that Neanderthal mud paintings are the most profound thoughts of all time and only a disgusting pleb could think otherwise.
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>Have you noticed this made up scenario
>wow those people are dumb in this made up scenario
what's your deal op
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>>2664935
>And so on back in time, until the first group of humans would have some people claiming that Neanderthal mud paintings are the most profound thoughts of all time and only a disgusting pleb could think otherwise.
And they'd be right, you disgusting pleb.
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>>2664956
in all seriousness painting & sculpting as an artform reached a zenith in the italian city states.
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What /his/ shows would you watch with your gf?
>if you had one
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Disregard females, acquire wealth.
Back to >>>/r9k/
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>>2664855
King Oedipus, live performance
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>>2664859
this 100% get that yacht
Memeball thread.
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So was Maslow basically right? Everyone seems to just take it as obvious
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Where's shitposting?
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>>2664660
Self-actualization
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literal pseudoscience. right down to the subjective definition of "self-actualization" and what "esteem" is based in.
post how he defines each level to understand how arbitrary and retarded it is.
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What do commies have against materialism exactly?
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I don't think communism has anything to do with materialism op.
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Oh they're covetous and greedy.
They are born and instead of being taught to work hard and seek what they can in life (nothing is guaranteed) they are brainwashed into hating people who have more then them.
It was initially a jewish justification to try to shake down goyim but they used it to convince the masses that they were really owed somerhing by people they never met.
It's just greed and theft really.
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>>2664647
I can't think of any communists who haven't been materialists.
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>"He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective."
>secular, utilitarian
isn't that an oxymoron? how is utilitarianism not a religion?
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>>2664383
You're retarded.
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>>2664383
>how is utilitarianism not a religion?
How IS utilitarianism a religion? It's a philosophy. Not a very compelling one in my view, since it can't justify its central premise, but it's not even close to being religious in character.
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>>2664489
>You're
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Thoughts on biological determinism versus environmental determinism?
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"I will simply point out the error of principle that has provided the foundation of this constitution and that has led the French astray since the first moment of their revolution.
The constitution of 1795, like its predecessors, has been drawn up for Man. Now, there is no such thing in the world as Man. In the course of my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; I am even aware, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be a Persian. But, as for Man, I declare that I have never met him in my life. If he exists, I certainly have no knowledge of him.
....This constitution is capable of being applied to all human communities from China to Geneva. But a constitution which is made for all nations is made for none: it is a pure abstraction, a school exercise whose purpose is to exercise the mind in accordance with a hypothetical ideal, and which ought to be addressed to Man, in the imaginary places which he inhabits....
What is a constitution? Is it not the solution to the following problem: to find the laws that are fitting for a particular nation, given its population, its customs, its religion, its geographical situation, its political relations, its wealth, and its good and bad qualities?
Now, this problem is not addressed at all by the Constitution of 1795, which is concerned only with Man."
What do you think /his/, is the nature of man purely due to materialistic circumstance or does blood determine fate based on genetic predispositions? To what extent does a limitation of ontology lead to our beliefs as to the nature of man?
Post evidence and arguments
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>>2664324
Aren't those the same thing?
Genetics were created through materials.
I mean you aren't a silicon lifeform.
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>>2664327
No, environmental determinism is based on more materialistic circumstances leading to ones outcome, the other, biological determinism, largely rests that the nature of man is inherent to their birth via specific Darwinian based beliefs.
I would agree with you in the sense that biological determinism is environmental determinism on a more macro scale of time, but the point of the question is
Does material make the man, does our limited perception make the man, or is man simply born and makes himself through biological imperatives he cannot help?
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The behavior of any person is determined in part by biological factors, and in part by their environment and external influences. To claim that it is entirely one or the other rejects pretty much everything we know about human behavior.