temp438's comments

You're selling your work. If what you sell doesn't cost as much as you asked for it, then you will lose ability to sell it, eventually. It's not a theft, it's how market works and it doesn't work in any other way.

> Buying an NFT allows me to...show off I guess?

And buying some other piece of shit for millions doesn't, right? What's the difference? Why nfts are so important?

What is really worrisome is a recent flood of cryptoposts in HR top about smth which doesn't matter at all. It starts to look like black PR already. "oh no, nfts!! Oh no, web3!! Oh no, a scam! Memcoins! Ponzi scheme!!"

These money would've ended in some bullshit anyways. We are in the middle of economical crizis. Bitcoin, selfdriving cars, tesla, space tourism or whatever just create a false sense of activity in the market while everything is going down.

> So how can you possibly talk about what caused you to measure a particular direction when apparently it was magically due to this thing that has no visible connection to it?

You mean a connection we can measure.

as i understand, our measurements rely on what we know and what we know relies on previous events. Its like what and how we measure something is simultaneosly determined by that something. We can't measure the size of a cat's soul because we don't have instruments for it but if we invent the instruments there will be no other choice than measuring them in a particular way the soul allows us to measure it.

Don't know if it make sense at all, but i tried to make sense of it.

> But they're interesting because they are laws - because there's some structure there, because the same causes consistently have the same effects. Superdeterminism denies all that.

Wait, how does it deny it?

> i'd say that if you're an inherent part of the causal chain that makes something happen then it's fair to say that you changed it. You don't have to assume free will to acknowledge that we affect our environment.

it's separating us from the environment and saying that one part changed the other, but that's just a simplification as our heads can't contain the whole system with all it's events. A blurry reflection. So now we "look" at this reflection and say : this is wrong, it makes no sense

Without simplification, we had some "initial" state and it "goes" somewhere. Like sand in a clock. We all know where the sand goes and what will happen in an hour.

We have words like "interesting, learn, understand" which don't really mean anything when we think about determinism. Science requires an observer but who is looking?

> It makes a mockery of the idea of trying to do science at all - the experiments you take are already determined

The laws of physics were there before people started studying physics. Didn't make it less interesting for those who were interested.

Everything we do is a mockery - life expectation is 75 if you are lucky and universe doesn't care about your achievements

>you can't learn anything about what causes have what effects because you can't ever change a causal variable.

[shrugs]If you don't have free will, then how can you change smth? What part of a computer "learns" during gradient descent?

> For instance, how can one be guilty of a crime if one had no choice in committing it?

Guilty is a social concept derived from the assumption that some events in the universe are "bad"

> Why try at anything if you have no choice — everything that will happen was decided at the universe’s origin and is merely playing out.

> It’s nihilism to the extreme.

Realising that there is no free will is not smth negative or positive. It's just smth which sets your further path which had no other purpose but spreading Life in the universe

>To me, we can take the Ace of Hearts and the Ace of Spades, shuffle them, and deal them out, face down, one each to Bob and Sally. Bob can go a light year away. Sally then looks at her card and knows right away, nothing faster than the speed of light needed, what Bob's card is.

I don't get it. Alice knows it right away only if she knows the rules of the game, electricity in her brain doesn't need to move a light year away. Though, if she's braindamaged, it can take longer than a light year for her to figure that out or may never happen at all.