BrainInABox

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The one I replied too. The habit of immediately and smugly going "It can't be falsified and is therefore the same as the tooth-fairy!" to any ideas that class with their intuition is very much a well worn cliche of reddit style pseudo-intellectual "I fucking love science" types. Bonus points if it is falsifiable.

And yes, falsifiablity is a part of science, but this idea that science means going "if you don't have a definite experiment that you can perform right now then the idea is stupid and wrong and you're an idiot for even talking about it" is massively reductive at best and flat out wrong at worst, and if these people applied it in all cases - rather than just to the ones that their gut feeling is against - they'd be throwing out a huge amount of ideas that are most definitely science.

I mean jesus, imagine how arrogant you would have to be to discard all of the very detailed work extremely talented scientists have done in Quantum Foundations as being no different to believing in the tooth fairy.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The post I replied to.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Ah ok.

Sounds like she's essentially describing the Quantum Immortality concept. It's definitely highly speculative but it's not beyond the pale.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Only if destroying every universe were possible

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your comment doesn't really make sense though, a two doesn't appear in the numbers between zero and one because it's not the type of thing that appears in that set. Alternative version of you absolutely are things that appear in a multiverse.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This is such anti-intellectual cliche, and it's a damn shame that a generation of Reddit pseudo-intellectuals parroting a Feynman quote has made it so wide spread.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ah OK, you're just willingly being disingenuous to defend genocides.

Know this, as someone who has lost family is Gaza to your beloved Biden's genocide, I find you infinity more loathsome than the outright fascists in your and Israels governments. At least they're honest and outright, they don't commit this repulsive linguistic gymnastics, torturing logic, language, and law in the most absurd ways to pretend you don't believe what you believe. You are the lowest kind of scum on Earth, and not only should your death go unmourned, it should be actively celebrated. I pray that one day your home and neighborhood looks like Gaza, and that you and people like you are reduced to corpses rotting in the rubble. And if that happens, I'll make sure to say of the people responsible: "they didn't do anything wrong, they were just uwu smol beans who meant well!"

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The USA ALSO ISN'T A MEMBER STATE you hypocritical fucking dipshit. No fucking surprise that there comes the post-hoc modifications to your bullshit criteria.

And guess what, the USA also meets that criteria (well I shouldn't say 'also', because China does not), but I'm sure you'll just change your standard against to keep defending your genociders of choice

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, what absolute nonsense; the US isn't some naive UWU smol bean full of good will that Israel is abusing; that's completely fucking absurd.

You're a genocide apologist, fuck off. You might as well say that the guards at Auschwitz were manipulating poor naive Hitler and the blood is only on their hands, no one else.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ok, genocide denier, who abuses their mod position to enforce their genocide denier.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Show me where the ICC charged Biden the way they did Netanyahu or Putin, it’s cool. I can wait.

So do you apply this standard consistently? Do you ban anybody who accuses China of genocide, for example?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, a position of genocide denial, and abusing your mod position to enforce your genocide denial.

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