…will act in bad faith if the state doesn’t check them

The very purpose of the state is to not check them.

If you’re curious, you should read State and Revolution. Short version is that daddy Engels outlines that the purpose of the state is to protect the bourgeoisie and their interests.

…what do you think capitalism is?

Capitalism forces businesses to enshittify as they grow

Apart from “being summoned” yeah. No desire or consciousness just a thing that modifies everything around it by nature. It doesn’t care that it drives animals insane or turns them into monsters, because it’s probably not aware of what an animal is to begin with.

Also kinda coincidental that Color Out of Space makes plants bigger. Before we had better gene editing methods, scientists used radiation to trigger mutations plants attempting to find some mutations that, among other things, made the fruit bigger lol

My earliest memory (that I have a solid time estimate for) is from 2yo. It’s not a memory of questions though, I was a curious kid; it’s a memory of me and my older siblings coming up with stupid names for our soon to be born younger sibling.

So, my guess is that it’s more about trying to come up with your own thoughts and ideas and answers than it is about asking questions specifically.

The word for established assumptions is “axioms”

Definitions are kind of the most fundamental axioms. Abstracting things helps us build with them and they’re true because you say they are.

We use axioms in models to derive new theorems/information. But that is often what makes us resist changing them. If you build your other assumptions on an axiom, you have to rethink all those assumptions or even throw them out when it gets proven wrong.

However, attachment to a belief, holding to an assumption even when it’s been proven wrong, is called “delusion” and yeah those beliefs tend to be the most destructive

I think by cornerstone, they are referencing that beliefs are assumptions that form one’s model of the world.

You think by logically building on assumptions. “I remember putting leftovers in the fridge last night, so I don’t need to make dinner tonight” You assume your memories are accurate (or accurate enough) and then build on other things you “know” to construct every thought.

Sights, sounds, and vibes are a different story. They are called qualia and the raw experience of them cannot be described.

Think of qualia like the raw data you collect from an experiment. Your worldview is the scientific model you’ve built to describe this data and it rests on both fundamental logic and the beliefs/theories you currently believe in.

Unfortunately people don’t like having to change their worldview. And when you’ve held a belief for long enough, it becomes foundational to many of your other assumptions. Some people would rather say reality is wrong than change their beliefs.

The word for a belief that cannot be changed via evidence is called a “delusion” in case you ever want to piss off a religious person who says “nothing can shake my faith” like it’s a good thing.

if a belief is a model/theory/assumption that a person will not change regardless of evidence against it, it is by definition a delusion.

If a belief is an opinion, it is a personal statement. Statements like “Vim is the best IDE” are really conveying the information “I prefer Vim over all others IDEs” which is a true statement.

If a belief is a hypothesis then the person holding it will accept if it ends up being wrong.

Only in the first and second cases do people usually place importance on their beliefs, and typically, only the first case leads people to harm others or themselves with no way to convince them to stop.

“I ate sigma pie and it was delicious!” Sounds like something that’d show up on my university’s YikYak, alluding to eating out a sorority chick from Sigma Pi lol

Idk if that’s a legitimate sorority, but I know that regardless of the sorority mentioned someone would reply something like “wait till you try a pi phi 😜” and/or someone would say you’re going to get an STD from that particular sorority

If you didn’t want me to bite it why did you bring it to my domain?

Lloyd Braun, I just wanted serenity

But you had to go testin’ me, gave me suicide tendencies

Free Media Heck Yeah. They lost their ml domains but do still have their main site FMHY.net which you should definitely avoid if you don’t want to accidentally pirate anything…

I’ve had to migrate from two instances getting shut down: fmhy.ml and lemm.ee.

Now it looks like I’m a new account but I swear I’ve been on lemmy for at least two years now lol

Cyberpunk 2077 enters the chat

Feel like the steps typically go the other way

1. Firefox
2. Linux
3. Blåhaj