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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This llama saying, 'we' & 'us' like he's one of us. ๐Ÿ˜ก

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oakfield takeoff block ฤ‹iviฤ‹i Gucci ufcgugucugxcitftuxfuutxrz77rs7ra8stpvhizfrzytd89guct8ixtixgfy8xt88xguxfyfcyfhigiyfugih6fe4wrfuibrsw3yfkmezr3q7yuodttdhihigfyf. better have been the first time that was written or else

edit: correcting spelling mistake ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

what about Hamlet 2?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

But Hamlet was written with intention.

The point in the expression is to underline how critical coincidences are, and how correlation is not causation. It's not that Hamlet is long and nigh impossible to "randomly" generate, but that at scale, seemingly impossible coincidences do actually happen.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You assume intention. Fallacy of free will. Whoever wrote it, you would claim had "intention". But given enough humans just faffing about randomly, one will eventually think up and write down "Hamlet". It's the same, you just want to ascribe higher meaning to it because it's human.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're just describing the mechanics of a coincidence, which is exactly the entire point.

I don't assume intention with Hamlet. There WAS intent there. The entire fucking point of the expression is people add intention when there IS NOT any. By using a situation that DID have intent, it is quite literally missing the entire point.

It is utterly stupid to try and twist a reality in to a different, incompatible hypothetical. Especially when reality is antithetical to the entire point.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

If no free will, no intention. It's that simple. In strict determinism, every action, thought, feeling, whatever, was predetermined at the moment of the big bang by the starting state and physics.

I'm absolutely saying that all of humanities creations are "coincidence". Just because you don't like what I have to say doesn't make me stupid. I know what I was describing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The thing with humans as opposed to simpler primates randomly mashing keyboards for eternity is that we're able to synthesize complex ideas related to our own experiences. That's what the difference is. Hamlet is the culmination of and synthesization of the many experiences of humans and Shakespeare.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

We think we are able to. Prove we aren't just fancy biological computers. No one has proven what consciousness really even is yet.

If the quote was "a million microbes", maybe you'd have a point. But it's monkeys. Our closest ancestors. What we are one step removed from. And y'all trying to act like monkeys are robots and were transcendent beings made of energy or some shit. We're animals, just like them. Slightly smarter, but animals. We are the monkeys.