The Saturday 6-Pack

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 03:40 PM

1. What’s something your brain tries to make you do and you have to will yourself not to do it?

Drink

2. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read or seen this week?

Three Body Problem

3. Are humans better at creation or destruction?

Destruction

4. Do people have a right to be happy or should they have to earn it?

Neither

5. If a perfect clone was created of you down to the atomic level and someone who knows you well has a gun pointed at the both versions of you and they then have to decide which one was the "real" you, what would you say or how would you convince them to spare you and shoot your clone?

There’s no way to increase your odds.

6. At what point is a technologically enhanced human not a human anymore?

When they can’t reproduce with the species as it is now but can with the updated version.

**Marie Monday** · 12-13-2020, 03:55 PM

1. What’s something your brain tries to make you do and you have to will yourself not to do it?
avoid social interaction.

2. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read or seen this week?
I came across some papers about mimicking the way flower petals fold and iridescent colours in insects using synthetic materials. Also I'm reading Scarlet and Black by Stendhal and it sent me down a French revolution wikipedia rabbit hole, that was cool.
3. Are humans better at creation or destruction?
Destruction.
4. Do people have a right to be happy or should they have to earn it?
They absolutely have a right to it. That doesn't mean they should just sit around waiting for it to happen, or blame anyone when they're unhappy, but **** the idea that anyone has to earn anything. I guess that actually means my answer is neither.
5. If a perfect clone was created of you down to the atomic level and someone who knows you well has a gun pointed at the both versions of you and they then have to decide which one was the "real" you, what would you say or how would you convince them to spare you and shoot your clone?
Why would I even want them to spare me lol

But to give a more interesting answer, it depends; does the clone have my memories, and how much knowledge does it have about me/them? If they know everything I do then there is no way to distinguish I think. If they just have my body and my personality I could pretty easily tell some facts/memories, but those are all too private or dependent on the person holding the gun. That wasn't even an interesting answer ffs.
6. At what point is a technologically enhanced human not a human anymore?
I guess the biological answer is, when they can't reproduce in the 'natural' way.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 04:00 PM

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does the clone have my memories

If it’s you down to every last atom then yes. Wow, this is coming up a lot.

**Marie Monday** · 12-13-2020, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

If it’s you down to every last atom then yes. Wow, this is coming up a lot.

lol yes that's a free will/consciousness debate trigger right there. Of course if we're realistic that's true, but it's a hypothetical situation; it's not about the correct science.

OccultHawk · 12-13-2020, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

lol yes that's a free will/consciousness debate trigger right there. Of course if we're realistic that's true, but it's a hypothetical situation; it's not about the correct science.

Yes ma’am

**Frownland** · 12-13-2020, 05:35 PM

1. What’s something your brain tries to make you do and you have to will yourself not to do it?

I force myself to chill out on the puns.

2. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read or seen this week?

Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti

Boss media analysis

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The news media prefer surface to substance, emphasizing the eye-catching visuals, the attention-catching "special angle" report, and the reassuring and comforting stories, while slighting the deeper, more important but politically more troublesome and more controversial themes. There is so much concentration on surface events that we often have trouble grasping the content of things, so much focus on action and personality that we fail to see the purposive goal of the action.

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There are many things about which we may not have a predetermined opinion. Lacking any competing information, we often unwarily embrace what we read or hear. In those instances, the media are not merely reinforcing previously held opinions, they are implanting new ones, although these implants themselves seldom fall upon tabula rasa brains and usually do not conflict too drastically with established biases.

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The press can effectively direct our perceptions when we have no information to the contrary and when the message seems congruent with earlier notions about these events (which themselves may be in part media created). In this way the original implant is also a reinforcement of earlier perceptions. Seemingly distinct reports about diverse events have a hidden continuity and a cumulative impact that again support previous views. To see this process as one of "minimal effects" because it merely reinforces existing views and does not change them is to overlook the fact that it was never intended to change them and was indeed designed to reinforce the dominant orthodoxy.

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Along with other social, cultural, and educational agencies, the media teach us tunnel vision, conditioning us to perceive the problems of society as isolated particulars, thereby stunting our critical vision. Larger causalities are reduced to immediately distinct events, while the linkages of wealth, power, and policy go unreported or are buried under a congestion of surface impressions and personalities. There is nothing too essential and revealing that cannot be ignored by the American press and nothing too trivial and superficial that cannot be accorded protracted play.

3. Are humans better at creation or destruction?

Destruction is the creation of a new circumstance maaaan.

4. Do people have a right to be happy or should they have to earn it?

Happiness is too fluid and relative, focus on eliminating suffering.

5. If a perfect clone was created of you down to the atomic level and someone who knows you well has a gun pointed at the both versions of you and they then have to decide which one was the "real" you, what would you say or how would you convince them to spare you and shoot your clone?

Tell them that we're not clones but twins then we all go get ice cream.

6. At what point is a technologically enhanced human not a human anymore?

When they wear glasses.

The Batlord · 12-13-2020, 06:52 PM

1. What’s something your brain tries to make you do and you have to will yourself not to do it?

Basically everything, but the booze specifically.

2. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read or seen this week?

Everything I've read or watched has been mad trash but I've been listening to the Age of Napoleon podcast and it's tres magnifique.

3. Are humans better at creation or destruction?

Destruction's a lot easier than creation so it definitely appears we're more skilled at destruction but it's probably a wash.

4. Do people have a right to be happy or should they have to earn it?

There are no such things as rights but anyone who says you don't have a right to be happy should get an ice pick to the head anyway.

5. If a perfect clone was created of you down to the atomic level and someone who knows you well has a gun pointed at the both versions of you and they then have to decide which one was the "real" you, what would you say or how would you convince them to spare you and shoot your clone?

I try to sodomize him for unrelated reasons but he also tries to sodomize me and whoever ends up on the bottom is clearly the real one.

6. At what point is a technologically enhanced human not a human anymore?

When they say something smart.

WWWP · 12-13-2020, 07:01 PM

This is why we'd never work, Charles, we're both such bottomy bottoms

The Batlord · 12-13-2020, 07:09 PM

Also you can't peg someone with a real penis.

rostasi · 12-13-2020, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

it depends; does the clone have my memories, and how much knowledge does it have about me/them?

Yes, even if it's identical on an atomic level,
it wouldn't automatically mean that their
atomic interactions would also be identical,
so this is a genuine variable that could still
produce unbeknownst memory patterns.

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