Thank you! And very interesting, from My end it's showing 4 upvotes and 4 downvotes. From your end is it showing a negative score? If so, I bet those votes come from instances we've defederated, because we don't federate with realist instances like lemmy.ml. Those people over there are really big on objective reality, and we aren't interested in arguing with them.
Anyway, sure thing! I wrote an antirealist manifesto which you can read at https://soulism.net/. But here's the elevator pitch: You're not a body, you're a mind. You're made of information, and so are your perceptions. So is the world you inhabit. Your subjective view of the world is a reconstruction, created from raw data by your brain. Babies don't know how to do that, they have no idea what's going on, they just see colours and shapes. You had to learn how to see objects, how to see a world. So what if you learned differently? What if you took the time to examine the way your perceptions are formed, and made conscious choices about how to do it? That is a thing that can be done, and the colloquial term for such is... magic. Rewriting reality through belief and perception. I would argue that we have an ethical duty to use magic to ensure we are perceiving the world in a way that is just. We need to be active agents in our subjective universe so that we can't be manipulated into doing harm.
Alright, well I'm happy to engage with that. I know it's not a realist's cage because I'm actively maintaining My subjective world and making choices about what to believe on a daily and weekly and yearly basis. I'm being an active agent in a way that realists don't. They let society tell them what is objectively true. I don't care about that, I'm asking Myself what is useful to believe.
I don't like the phrase "thank you" because it's manners, but it has a pronoun inside. And so it puts Me in a really socially awkward position. And it's a position most people wouldn't understand. If someone has second person neopronouns, then "thank you" makes a person feel bad, while having really good intentions behind it, so if you complain or correct, it's really rude and it feels bad to do so. I try to avoid manners that have pronouns inside when I'm talking to strangers, but it would be unreasonable of Me to expect the same from most people. I like "thanks". But "thank you" makes Me feel bad, AND conflicted. It's the most annoying manners.
Moral of the story is people don't want to spend time thinking about their actions. They just want to do them. So we have to make kindness easy and thoughtless. We have to make cruelty inconvenient and confusing.
There is no compromising with an ideology that is inherently uncompromising in nature. It's the paradox of tolerance. Realists will never make room for experiences that defy their idea of objective reality. If they did, they wouldn't be realists. That's why in order to create room for everyone's experiences and freedom, we must destroy consensus reality. We need to kill objectivism in order to have a subjective multiverse with free exchange of ideas. Realists violate that social contract.
Soulism is more like absurdism, but instead of applied to meaning, it's applied to everything. Reality is not objective, and that gives us the freedom to interpret our condition in a manner so radical it would make Sartre blush. We can change our beliefs to change our perception to change the world we live in. That's magic.
They're called realists and they're everything wrong with society. We need to kill the idea of objective reality and to push everyone to choose their subjective worldview based on their own wants and needs, not society's.
So you're saying that because the AI has been exposed to training data in the past, it's incapable of making choices. Interesting argument. Pretty easy to reducto ad absurdum, though.
Infinitesunrise is wrong to place the emphasis on the Jewish part and not the Zionist part, but I will say this: in Israel there is economic inequality between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim. Ashkenazim come from Europe and have paler skin. Mizrahim come from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and often have darker skin. If you compare the income of Ashkenazim and Mizrahim in modern day Israel, Ashkenazim control much of the country's wealth. Which is the same pattern you see in the rest of the world with white privilege.
Now, why does Israel want to compete in Eurovision? Israel isn't in Europe, it's in Asia, so how does that make sense? Well, the big clue is Australia. Australia isn't in Europe either, but it has a very European cultural identity, mainly represented in the fact that it was founded as a racist colonial project and it has a European king. So what Israel is culturally signalling through its investment in competing in Eurovision is "we are culturally European." And we can see that in the fact that Israel is a colonialist state, just like Australia. Israel is performing whiteness. They're trying to tell the western world "we are colonisers like you". And that's why a lot of people object to Israel's participation in Eurovision. Because it's a piece in their plan to colonise Palestine. They're using it to gain political legitimacy and maintain alliances.
So, are Jewish people white? No. But, are there Jewish people who benefit from white privilege and seek to use white privilege to further colonialism? Yes, but not because they're Jewish. It's because they're bourgeois racists.
The meaning of life is to survive and have children. That's the definition of a lifeform, a survival and reproduction machine. But meaning has very little to do with what you should do. I think what people should do is make the world a happier and less miserable place.
Thank you! And very interesting, from My end it's showing 4 upvotes and 4 downvotes. From your end is it showing a negative score? If so, I bet those votes come from instances we've defederated, because we don't federate with realist instances like lemmy.ml. Those people over there are really big on objective reality, and we aren't interested in arguing with them.
Anyway, sure thing! I wrote an antirealist manifesto which you can read at https://soulism.net/. But here's the elevator pitch: You're not a body, you're a mind. You're made of information, and so are your perceptions. So is the world you inhabit. Your subjective view of the world is a reconstruction, created from raw data by your brain. Babies don't know how to do that, they have no idea what's going on, they just see colours and shapes. You had to learn how to see objects, how to see a world. So what if you learned differently? What if you took the time to examine the way your perceptions are formed, and made conscious choices about how to do it? That is a thing that can be done, and the colloquial term for such is... magic. Rewriting reality through belief and perception. I would argue that we have an ethical duty to use magic to ensure we are perceiving the world in a way that is just. We need to be active agents in our subjective universe so that we can't be manipulated into doing harm.