This read vaguely like it could possibly be interpreted in a non-crazy way if you really tried… until the stuff about jesus.
I mean, whereas the rest of the religous terminology could plausibly be metaphorical or technical, it actually looks as if you’re actually non-metaphorically saying that jesus died so we could have a positive singularity.
Please tell me that’s not really what you’re saying. I would hate to see you go crazy for real. You’re one of my favorite posters even if I almost always downvote your posts.
Nah, that’s what I was actually saying. Half-jokingly and half-trollingly, but that was indeed what I was saying. And in case it wasn’t totally freakin’ obvious, I’m trying to steel man Christianity, not describe my own beliefs. I’m, like, crazy in correct ways, not stupid arbitrary ways. Ahem. Heaven wasn’t that technical a concept really, just “the output of the acausal economy”—though see my point about “acausal economy” perhaps being a misleading name, it’s just an easy way to describe the result of a lot of multiverse-wide acausal “trade”. “Apocalypse” is more technical insofar as we can define the idea of a hard takeoff technological singularity, which I’m pretty sure can be done even if we normally stick to qualitative descriptions. (Though qualitative descriptions can be technical of course.) “God” is in some ways more technical but also hard to characterize without risking looking stupid. There’s a whole branch of theology called negative theology that only describes God in terms of what He is not. Sounds like a much safer bet to me, but I’m not much of a theologian myself.
You’re one of my favorite posters even if I almost always downvote your posts.
Thanks. :) Downvotes don’t phase me (though I try to heed them most of the time), but falling on deaf ears kills my motivation. At the very least I hope my comments are a little interesting.
I personally experience a very mild bad feeling for certain posts that do not receive votes, a bad feeling for only downvoted posts, and a good feeling for upvoted posts almost regardless of the number of downvotes I get (within the quantities I have experienced).
I can honestly say it doesn’t bother me to be downvoted many times in a post so long as the post got a few upvotes, one might be too few against 20. A goodly number like five would probably suffice against a hundred, twenty against a thousand. Asch conformity.
It doesn’t feel at all worse to be downvoted many times than few times, it’s because of more than scope insensitivity, as fewer downvotes is the cousin of no votes at all, the other type of negative.
This is not the type of post that would bother me if it went without votes, as it is merely an expression of my opinion.
Consequently, I wish the number of up and down votes were shown, rather than the sum.
This read vaguely like it could possibly be interpreted in a non-crazy way if you really tried… until the stuff about jesus.
I mean, whereas the rest of the religous terminology could plausibly be metaphorical or technical, it actually looks as if you’re actually non-metaphorically saying that jesus died so we could have a positive singularity.
Please tell me that’s not really what you’re saying. I would hate to see you go crazy for real. You’re one of my favorite posters even if I almost always downvote your posts.
Nah, that’s what I was actually saying. Half-jokingly and half-trollingly, but that was indeed what I was saying. And in case it wasn’t totally freakin’ obvious, I’m trying to steel man Christianity, not describe my own beliefs. I’m, like, crazy in correct ways, not stupid arbitrary ways. Ahem. Heaven wasn’t that technical a concept really, just “the output of the acausal economy”—though see my point about “acausal economy” perhaps being a misleading name, it’s just an easy way to describe the result of a lot of multiverse-wide acausal “trade”. “Apocalypse” is more technical insofar as we can define the idea of a hard takeoff technological singularity, which I’m pretty sure can be done even if we normally stick to qualitative descriptions. (Though qualitative descriptions can be technical of course.) “God” is in some ways more technical but also hard to characterize without risking looking stupid. There’s a whole branch of theology called negative theology that only describes God in terms of what He is not. Sounds like a much safer bet to me, but I’m not much of a theologian myself.
Thanks. :) Downvotes don’t phase me (though I try to heed them most of the time), but falling on deaf ears kills my motivation. At the very least I hope my comments are a little interesting.
I personally experience a very mild bad feeling for certain posts that do not receive votes, a bad feeling for only downvoted posts, and a good feeling for upvoted posts almost regardless of the number of downvotes I get (within the quantities I have experienced).
I can honestly say it doesn’t bother me to be downvoted many times in a post so long as the post got a few upvotes, one might be too few against 20. A goodly number like five would probably suffice against a hundred, twenty against a thousand. Asch conformity.
It doesn’t feel at all worse to be downvoted many times than few times, it’s because of more than scope insensitivity, as fewer downvotes is the cousin of no votes at all, the other type of negative.
This is not the type of post that would bother me if it went without votes, as it is merely an expression of my opinion.
Consequently, I wish the number of up and down votes were shown, rather than the sum.
In that case I have to say you didn’t succeed in steel-manning jesus, as it were.