has the same root cause
Oh for sure
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Lots of people in rural areas still do. Places where cable companies don't offer service because it's not profitable.
I feel like calling it AutoPilot is already risking liability, Full Self Driving is just audacious. There's a reason other companies with similar technology have gone with things like driving assistance. This has probably had lawyers at Tesla sweating bullets for years.
Yeah, especially with today's political climate. If the other BioShock games came out today they would be labeled anti-american and woke.
Tesla’s FSD— Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Really wonder how many lawyers Musk had to fire before they named it Full Self-Driving^tm
you think people who don't believe in free will shouldn't express their ideas or beliefs in order to be consistent with a lack of belief in free will?
No, just that their ideas and beliefs should be consistent with their states ideology.
Pure determinism isn't my stated belief. I said I don't believe in free will. You are adding to what I said again, pulling stuff out of thin air.
I didn't say what type of determinism you adhere to, if you read what I said it states "most forms of determinism".
free will: What exactly is our will free from?
Lol, that's a bit of a pedantic tool to evaluate of determinism. However in simple terms free of the concept of predetermination.
Random chance doesn't mean free will either. I don't believe in some meta-physical super natural aspect of our will either but even if there was, that still wouldn't mean we have free will either.
I don't have the ability to choose between different courses of actions, or have the agency to control my own actions to fulfill a personal sense of morality?
its the nature of choice and how its a completely meaningless illusion. The main impact on morality it would have is in terms of justice and how society functions
Maybe if morality were determined solely by legality, and if we only examined ones own actions on a grand societal scale.
on a interpersonal level that you forgive yourself and others because no one chooses to be born.
Just because you didn't choose to be born doesn't mean you don't get to choose how to navigate your own life.
No one chooses to be who they are, we don't choose our parents, our bodies, our brains.
Lol, yes you can choose who you are. We are a collage of our own actions and we are able to choose how we react to different scenarios throughout our lives. We may not get to choose who are parents are, but we get to choose what kind of relationship we have with our parents. The same goes with our body, even if born with an innate disability, we choose how we respond and adapt to the disability.
We are shunted into existence and expected to perform life and to take responsibility for it
And yet everyone still has the choice to take responsibility or not. Expectations are not an undeniable demand. We even have the choice of deciding if we even want experience life, suicide is often a choice.
Do you actually think that's the reason? I'm pretty sure its because men have to try a lot harder.
Why do men choose to try a lot harder....? It's not like there vastly more men than women, or that our innate biological imperatives are different.
Its not only that, but that's a major component. Yeah.
Lol, so you've been making a fuss for nothing?
I never said that I thought I was entitled to that woman. If I thought I was entitled to her I would have kept asking her out or insisting on her dating me.
Then why did she make you so upset? Do you have to avoid every attractive woman you see? There is more to this than "she's so pretty it hurts".
I fundamentally disagree with criticism of individuals this way. I think things need to be solved systematically or technologically. Not with psychoanalysis or "pulling ourselves by our boot straps" or whatever.
Seems like a complex way to avoid any sense of person responsibility..... I mean things like talk therapy have years of scientific evidence to support itself as a valid form of treatment. I don't really think your beliefs align themselves with reality.
So yeah, when you argue with me and you decide to angle it based on me individually and my individual faults and personal defects and I'm just a bad person, I just fundamentally disagree on the very basis of your engagement with the topic.
"I cannot be judged by my own actions" is kinda a crazy take. I wonder why you have a hard time finding a romantic partner......?
^don't need your pity to know I'm right or wrong about something. I want you to argue against my points
Your point has shifted goal post so hard that it has nothing to do with the original prompt. We are now in the territory of you not believing in people being held responsible for their own actions.....
want you to challenge my ideas. I'm not particularly interested in talking about me other than as example/anecdote for my own arguments (which is why I brought up the personal example). If I have "unhealthy opinions" I want to know specifically what they are and then I can either realize I'm objectively wrong or I can retort with some argument.
You already dropped the entire original argument. Which was based on the post claiming it's not about sex. You've already admitted nits mostly about sex.
^personally am indeed incredibly depressed (which relates to the self depreciation) but not because of lack of sex. I mean I was depressed in the past because of that when I was still figuring things out maybe but now its because Trump won a second time and that's kind of permeated and filtered how I see people in general. And I mean, also my life sucks and I legitimately resent having been born but none of that is relevant to the current topic of male loneliness in of itself.
I mean.... Maybe your fundamental beliefs are not condusive to maintaining your mental health. I would highly suggest you choose to talk to a mental health professional about it, which is statistically proven to help.
Your beliefs seem to have painted your mental health into a corner with no room for improvement. At some point everyone needs to take some level of personal responsibility in their lives, and sometimes that personal responsibility comes in the form of accepting you have negative attributes that you need to address in a healthy way.
What else could I have materially done? Its not like I could just delete the emotions and just pretend I was fine to chit chat with her at the water cooler or something.
You don't have to delete emotions, you process them. Evaluate why you are actually feeling that way, and if that is a reasonable way to to feel in the given circumstances. Why were you upset? Does it make sense to feel upset just because someone is attractive, does that happen to you every time you see someone attractive?
Once you figure out the reason you are feeling those emotions they are easier to manage and control. Emotions don't just happen to you, they are how you respond to stimuli, meaning you have control over them.
being autistic tends to make me pretty weak at reading people probably on average but I'm probably a bit better than the average autistic person. I'm a very extroverted autistic person. Despite the nihilism and politically induced misanthropy.
Both my wife and I are autistic, it's not a valid reason to shirk personal responsibility. In fact, unfortunately it means you have more responsibility to evaluate your own emotions and behavior to make sure you don't hurt people's feelings. It's a lot of work, but it is completely manageable. As an older autistic person I can basically guarantee your coworker noticed your behavior.
rejected me who I badly wanted to be with romantically would have been good for me and my heavily obsessive and ruminating autistic brain.
Right, and how long have you been ruminating on it since? How long ago was it, and how many potential relationships did it prevent you from building since then? What goes through your brain when you think about approaching a different attractive lady?
If you don't confront, process, and learn how to heal from harmful complex emotions you will never escape them.
Avoidance was a lesser evil. I have experience enough to know that.
Only because you haven't learned a better coping skill.
There is a difference between very attractive and "I want to die when I see them" level of physical attraction.
That's called obsession, and is often one of the bases of the OCD, autism, and ADHD triad that many people have to learn to deal with.
We will never ever meet. I don't care about your opinion of me. I am not important. Neither are you.
You don't have to actually care about my pity. I'm guessing it's a reflexive avoidance behaviour you utilize to most criticism you experience.
I am not important. Neither are you
I am important not the people I care about, and I hope you are as well.
care that I am correct that men are fucked by romantic loneliness right now and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps is not a viable solution.
Fucked by who? It seems the major impediment isn't something society can really change for you.
Pulling yourself up by the boot straps is an analogy meant to represent something impossible, no one is asking you to do that. I just recommend learning to get back on your feet after being knocked down for whatever reason.
She is almost certainly fine. She is not a baby. She is an adult woman who had her own life going on.
So is it okay to hurt people if the damage is not permanent?
Me keeping things strictly bare minimum and professional was perfectly reasonable
I don't see how it was an act of responsibility if it wasn't even really socially acceptable.
What do you want from me?
What I want from all young people, to take some responsibility and attempt to do the best they can.
Are you a psychologist or something?
I work in healthcare, specifically with a lot of patients who have physical and mental disabilities.
And the study that the claim is made from is fairly dubious. It really only applies to specific types of peasants, during a specific period of time, in specific locations, and counts certain types of infrequent religious breaks from work as a common place given.
they can request that the clown follow the companys dress policy when coming into the building...
I mean.... What are they going to do, fire him? If they physically prevented the clown from coming in, you could also dress as a clown and then be barred from the meeting you're being fired from.
Infinite employment hack.
I see a marketing potential for people who sell bath water to gamerz. Multi tiered demand based on if you want water from the first or second bath.
AI demand is driving huge investment in production of carbon-free energy at scale
I feel like AI companies are creating a large demand for energy no matter where it comes from, and feel like having some minor investments in potential carbon free energy is mainly a marketing ploy or something to point at if they ever get sued.
Immediate term with Small Modular fission Reactors (SMRs)
Tbh, the big problem with nuclear in america is that we don't really have the federal power needed to actually coordinate and mandate the needed infrastructure for it. The US is so obsessed with state rights that we're susceptible to nimby attacks and disputes at the local and State level governments.
To actually cut through the red tape, we'd have to empower federal agencies for a good reason for once, and I'm not very optimistic about our current political climate.
and immediate term, multiple commercial fusion energy plants are being built.
Yeah..... I think it would be more accurate to say that fusion experimental sites are being built. Most nuclear engineers I've heard talk about fusion are still skeptical about fusion being viable in the next 20 years.
Because suffering, pleasure, and conscious beings are at stake?
And if free will does not exist does your opinion on the matter have any effect on the predetermined outcome?
sounds like you place all meaning on choice/will or something. I don't do that. I care about people's happiness and well being, not their will (at least not intrinsically).
Most forms of determinism believe that people's happiness and well being are predetermined and our opinions about their feelings has no effect on how they feel.
I'm wondering if you actually understand the philosophical concept of determinism?
hear it they're saying it as some kind of dunk on men or they're making some kind of constructive contribution/suggestion without explicitly saying it. So you'll need to clarify.
It's an alternative explanation detailing why there are less women on dating apps.
its about physical touch, associating physical release with another human being, another person's pleasure becoming your own. etc.
So sex..... Just like the original post claimed. This is about sex.
The term is interdependence. When you romantically bond with someone deeply, you generally become deeply dependent on them and they become dependent on you. And yeah, sex is going to bond you way way stronger to a person.
Again.... This all started because the of post claimed people identifying themselves as belonging to "the male loneliness epidemic" was really men complaining about not having sex. That's what got everbodys panties in a twist, and the deeper we dive into the denial of the claim, the more it seems to be true.
You don't seem to just want to be more social, you seem to be mostly complaining about women withholding a sexual or romantic relationship from you.
You'll need to be a little more specific.I already know I'm mentally unwell.
You seem to lack healthy coping skills when you don't get what you feel you're entitled too. You seem to reaching out for someone or something to blame for this lack of coping skills. You also seem to adopt an attitude of morose self deprecation as a defense against any form of criticism. Attempting to redirect the criticism by utilizing guilt as a redirection, aka the pity fallacy or sometime pityfishing.
They had no idea I was avoiding them. I was polite and professional when I had to interact.
You know you chose to avoid them.... You have no idea if they knew or not, I don't imagine reading social cue is probably a specialty of yours.
I was avoiding psychological pain. That's it. I did not hold anything against them individually. Seeing them made me cripplingly and dysfunctionally sad, but they did not know that.
You don't sense that might be problematic? Avoidance is not a healthy coping skill. Neither is being in pain because someone is attractive. There are attractive people everywhere, are you in constant crippling emotional pain? Or did that pain really come from being denied something you secretly feel you are entitled to?
confronted my emotions and decided the best way to handle them was to avoid
Avoiding emotions is pretty different than confronting them.
aware you're real sad for them. I promise you they're almost certainly happier today than I am. I would bet money.
Empathy doesn't equate to pity. Again you are pityfishing.
You treat people differently based on their appearance all the time. Everyone does. You are probably just less conscious about it.
I don't really think I do, it would negatively effect my work. Plus, even if I did, there's a matter of scale. I'm not running away or avoiding people based on their looks.
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Same, be safe, have a good weekend.