Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

[CiG]

I can't really touch on cultural appropriation as relating to literature TBH. Nowhere near educated or well-read enough to do so.

Edit: funny coincidence, just saw this on my FB feed: Jamie Oliver accused of cultural 'appropriation' by minister after he launches jerk rice.

 

[Dak]

There's an irony here in that a legitimate critique of JP involves dismissing the basis for the broad-based post-modern critique. Not that this is new or anything.

 

[Dak]

https://aeon.co/essays/what-s-it-all-for-is-a-question-that-belongs-in-the-past

 

[Einherjar86]

I remember when that article was published. I didn't pay much attention to it, honestly. I haven't read Nagel's book, but I think the critics/skeptics are right. It strikes me as an instance of someone retroactively imposing necessity onto an evolutionary contingency. Nagel's right that, in a strictly evolutionary sense, the emergence of consciousness was highly unlikely--that there is a virtual infinity of alternative paths that evolution could have taken (not to mention the universe). Teleology explains away the unlikelihood, but at the cost of ignoring entire blackboards of chaos mathematics that support the "fluke" theory. Every single branch of evolutionary existence is (or at least began) as a highly unlikely, highly unpredictable phenomenon. It all could have been otherwise.

Coincidentally, that article pairs nicely with Peter Watts's recent little invective against Bernardo Kastrup's recent article in The Journal of Consciousness Studies: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8255

 

[Dak]

From one perspective it's just a secular pass at a Berkeleyian or Spinozan model of ontology. How far we've come.

 

[Dak]

https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification

The Airbnb marketplace is evolving toward its most effective product; it seems that what consumers want more than an exotic experience is something like a Days Inn but more stylish and less obvious — a generic space hidden behind a seemingly unique facade.

 

[The Ozzman]

Those conspiracy theories tho

 

[The Ozzman]

This worries me more than nukes and is much likelier to happen

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-could-wipe-out-america-democracy-world-order

 

[rms]

not going to happen dude

 

[The Ozzman]

not going to happen dude

Whatever you say

 

[Dak]

https://quillette.com/2018/12/14/video-games-and-the-male-meaning-of-life/

Solid writeup.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yo @Dak, i heard you calculated and made up an IQ score for yourself in the 160's(lmao) and then got called out on in later when you said that you never actually took an IQ test. Is this true?

 

[CiG]

TB in UM GMDS

1. See Posts
2. Roid Rage
3. ????
4. Repeat

 

[Dak]

yo @Dak, i heard you calculated and made up an IQ score for yourself in the 160's(lmao) and then got called out on in later when you said that you never actually took an IQ test. Is this true?

Not to my knowledge. Unless I drunk posted some bullshit like 8-10 years ago. It's true I have not taken an IQ test, but I have taken other tests with high correlations with IQ test results and I also give IQ tests, and my best informed estimate is in the range of 125-130.

Edit: I think I posted about GRE correlations, and I have a super high IQ correlation with the verbal subtest, but not with the quantitative, and I explained that. If someone wants to run with a single sentence and ignore everything else that's on them.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Not to my knowledge. Unless I drunk posted some bullshit like 8-10 years ago. It's true I have not taken an IQ test, but I have taken other tests with high correlations with IQ test results and I also give IQ tests, and my best informed estimate is in the range of 125-130.

so you're saying you never made up an IQ score for yourself? Or at least you don't remember doing so?

 

[Dak]

so you're saying you never made up an IQ score for yourself? Or at least you don't remember doing so?

I never made any unequivocal statements. I've only ever made estimations, and I'm pretty sure they are in the 125-135 range.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

oh "estimations", i see. Are you sure you didn't make up an "estimate" in the 160s?

 

[rms]

he's got a quote dak just end this fucking week long stupidity

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

he's probably searching for it right now

He just basically admitted to making up a score for himself anyway, i'll just save this one for another day.

 

[rms]

fucking deranged man