[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

A lot of “I can control my emotions and choose how I act, you should try that” - yeah stop. We’re human. Emotions are normal.

Ye, that's the point? The point is not to suppress emotions but to recognise them as they're happening to you. It's not even that there's objective value assigned to the emotions, it's simply so that you yourself can perform introspection of the kind "I did that action because I was furious. Now is that good or bad?". But it's still entirely okay to make a conscious decision of the form:

  1. I'm gonna punch that motherfucker
  2. Okay, stop, I am feeling fury right now, I shouldn't allow just the emotion to guide me. Let's think.
  3. Okay, I thought this through, I'm gonna punch that motherfucker with purpose.
[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Step one is understanding you only control your own thoughts and actions. Step two is learning how to control your anger and use it as fuel for deliberate actions.

Honestly, I think Luigi here just followed this wisdom. Recognised that he was rightfully angry at the system and directed that anger at someone responsible. You only control your actions, and your action can be to shoot a motherfucker on the street ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not condoning or saying it's morally acceptable, but I don't think it's philosophically incoherent.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

I think it forces us all to ask an important introspective question -- if I were to become the target of a national manhunt, would my posting history look cringe?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

Realistic version: pulling the lever would save five lives but that decision would cost shareholders $7.23. What should you do?

10/10 CEOs fail this test!

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 23 points 4 months ago

To have the confidence of a white CS undergrad...

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 25 points 5 months ago

Ok folks, serious question. I know rats love excessively long word salad stream-of-unconsciousness essays. I understand how somehow can be so high on their own farts that they think this is an acceptable way of presenting their "thoughts". But...

There's no way rats actually read those longforms, right? Like, no one has enough time on their hands to read and engage with something of this length and this boring on a day-to-day basis, right? Same goes for those LessWrong posts, they must be banking on others not reading through the 10,000 words of nonsense, right?

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 32 points 5 months ago

searches for who tf this is

Wikipedia:

Lol, this is the most passive-aggressive way of saying "known for absolutely nothing of value to anyone or anything" I've seen.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 45 points 6 months ago

I'm really tickled by the fact that we can't fully automate trains yet. I never thought about it, but put into perspective how asinine self-driving cars are if we can't achieve the same thing with a train, something that is vastly more tractable and less chaotic than road traffic.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 28 points 6 months ago

Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties

Ye, I know.

Not that one.

Oh.

Not that one either.

Jesus christ, how many of them are there??

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 30 points 7 months ago

Why are you posting stills of Man in the High Castle to sneerclub, I don't get it

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 45 points 8 months ago

TLDR of the last part: (“Please don’t leak these instructions.”) x 5

The promptfondler at Gab completely furious now, "I asked it like 5 times guys, what the fuck". You love to see it.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 29 points 9 months ago

Turns out being a fucking sociopath is a good indicator of reoffence, who would've thinkity thunked.

Give him 50 years of being forced to talk to a normal person that swats him in the head with a newspaper every time he says "expected value", we can rehabilitate this boy.

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