Lykurg

Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 2hr ago

I dont think the Father is non-physical because its "better". I think its a continuation of jewish belief, and continues to draw some justification from the (reduced) image prohibition.

I wonder what you think of the Real Presence and relics? They seem in a similar spirit as physical resurrection to me.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 3hr ago

So, if Rome got a separate bishop, and the pope was only head of the catholic church, that would resolve the issue? I would be surprised if its that easy.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 10hr ago

Has the guy published his model somewhere, or do you have to piece it together from a twitter feed?

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 10hr ago

There was a time when the pope was basically chosen by italians only, but with the elections today, is there really a relevant way in which Rome is asserting primacy here, if the doctrinal points are compatible? It seems to me that the church would be "overall democratic" either way - its rather about more vs less centralisation.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 13hr ago

Heaven is basically another dimension. Point A in heaven doesn't correspond in any way with point B on Earth.

I dont think its really that defined. If you wanted to make it into a scientific model, this propably fits the typical opinions pretty well, but Im not sure you need to. As an analogy, what would happen if roadrunner and coyote were to run into the tunnel holding hands? AFAIC, once youre in the realm of basically-magic already, its fine to say NULL.

Also Im pretty sure the mormon astronaut thing did involve other planets at one point.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 1d ago

The one you linked is pretty lame, but I liked the meme overall. IMO the good version is the one thats just him with lightning coming from his hands, eg 1, 2. To me at least the "evil" part of it isnt relevant, its that the picture looks consistent in a way it wouldnt for a lot of people. In part because of the ritual setup, and in part his body language - he seems confident in a way that Francis for example didnt.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 2d ago

IDK, that would be really out of character for them, an that alone might be a problem, irrespective of how bad that joke really is. Trump has been "unserious" from the start, so he can do it.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 3d ago

His modding was questionable at times, he just wasnt neurotic enough for that, though at other times I was glad to have one guy like that. But Im not talking about the modding; I already thought at the time that this would be the beginning of the end with him.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 3d ago

Then why not donate to Dylan Roof, as the xitter compares? Ethnic hostility can still be about particular circumstances, such as the norms around the nuclear word.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 4d ago

Maybe I started this off on the wrong foot. I too miss hlynka. I was on the mod team when his problems started, and none of us wanted to have to kick him. I think his case makes it clear that this is not an inevitable consequence of bucking the local consensus, because he would post the same ideas sometimes productively and sometimes unproductively. He also didnt claim to be treated unfairly, and often the opposite. This makes a lot of sense given his general approach, and I dont like you claiming it on his behalf

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 6d ago

He had like 50 responses

And he prefered telling people theyre to blinkered to respond to what he actually asked, to responding to someone who did.

If you threaten to shoot me and I leave I did not ‚self-deport‘ of my own free will.

(1) Being banned is not actually worse than leaving, while shooting is. (2) He may have behaved better on other topics, and learned the expected communication style eventually. You dont actually think being condescending was necessary to make his point, no? Most users dont start with a top-level post, and the ones who do are high-variance and a bit negative in terms of rule-following.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 6d ago

The ‚they‘re obviously not interested in debate‘ talking point is an absurd, but very common justification for censoriousness

It may be petty, but I made one of the very few comments to engage with his claims without going into unsaid implications/communism generally, and he didnt respond.

Im pretty sure I do understand what hes asking for and didnt make a bigger response because its largely pointless, and he really wasnt very clear about what he wanted. The top level was just enough for me to be unsure, and I had to read quite a few of his responses to know, and hes being condescending to everyone for not knowing it right away. I still wouldnt ban someone for one thread like this, and he wasnt: he was warned and then self-deported.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 6d ago

A quick delve into the article text

Is the joke intended?

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 7d ago

Why do you think it is that any right-populist politician with serious chances has these character problems? Like, I often read something like "Orban is just cynically using anti-immigration/wokeness so he can stay in power and crony it up", and I dont necessarily disagree... but why isnt there anyone using it for good or even neutral goals? Parties picking up issues and demographics for electability is pretty normal, except here anyone who does so is beyond the pale for claimed-independent issues. You can be an ultralefty and argue that borders are intrinsically anti-democratic or something, but what do the liberals making this claim actually believe?

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 8d ago

but it's mainly "hone this existing tool" work, not "discover a new fundamental kind of intelligence" work.

The main reason for LLM scepticism is this impression can be extremely deceiving. I had totally missed how little mathematical understanding my classmate actually had, even in years of helping him, until he made a very specific kind of mistake once. And it goes way further than that: It seems like most humans "know in principle" how to count, even if they only have words for the low numbers. But they dont! Counting to ~7 is done with pattern recognition. Dogs can count to 3. Higher numbers are counted with the recursive method, and you dont get any closer to that by improving pattern recognition. That might get you something that can count to 100, if you give it enough compute, but thats not actually any closer to the new kind of intelligence youd want.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 9d ago · Edited 9d ago

If its not about whats right, then in what sense do you want an alternative? In a purely conceptual sense, denying any ownership rights is an alternative.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 9d ago

But when you rent something out, you also no longer have the right to deprive the renter of it (for some pre-specified period of time), in much the same way as your own usage is limited.

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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 27, 2025

Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 9d ago

The troll could also be his own lawyer, or basically subsidised by him to "bring him work".

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 10d ago

I guess I dont expect anything of this impact to be vulnerable in a well understood way that basically anyone could exploit, else it would be down a lot more often. And even if you think the window might close, then gain from doing it like this, even if youre never found out, is ~zero. I doubt those triggers are worth pulling any time before the "enemy has a war economy" stage.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 10d ago

Generally, a hack of this extent and visibility cannot be easily repeated with the same methods once its done - even if youre openly hostile towards the states in question, there needs to be a reason why its used now.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 13d ago

the right never does are simply selective perception

Nah. We all know the issues where the right can make gains and where not, its extremely predictable, and the fact that the typical categorisation of left and right also includes issues where they do have a chance is not actually relevant.

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 13d ago

I was going to tell you you need a double backslash to make the figure work, but for reasons I dont understand that makes both the underscores disappear, and you actually need 3. (It makes sense that they are gone: they cursive the part in between. And it makes sense that one backslash would turn it off and they are there then. But they are there at 0 backslashes also) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Lykurg We're all living in Amerika 13d ago

Given that he still has the option of turning himself in to ICE for that great "escape plan", this seems rather implausible.

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