Zayd
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Zayd
@Zaydtheory
politically homeless democratic socialist
Katılım Kasım 2025
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Because it suggests that violence and greed are not products of capitalism
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell
I still genuinely dont understand why the idea that neolithic peoples engaged in violent conquests would be “a political problem.”
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@Aella_Girl Your environment molds you. If you come from a community of extreme poverty and gang violence you see the world through that lens. That perspective doesnt serve you well in greater society. It may be a "truth" but not one any child is mature enough to handle.
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@operationdanish First time I went to a psychiatrist after failing out of college I was prescribed Trintellix and Vyvanse with zero history of any other medication. Both had no generic at the time.
I did not like the effects of either and stopped taking them after a month or so
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You think doctors are making money on those $0.30 SSRIs? I love when tech people think they just know everything.
SSRIs are popular because patients are asking for them… because our mental health epidemic is out of control… because tech and social media has made life worse for people.
Follow the money back to yourself.
@levelsio@levelsio
We should find out who's really responsible for doctorss prescribing so many SSRIs We have to follow the money Just like they did with the opioids epidemic
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@danny_bttrmn @JoeGotBlown @prer4ph @tafphorisms are you gonna tell me you can't model in your head that communists are likely to vote blue and that people fighting for survival in destitute situations are likely to vote red. women and children are more likely to vote blue
if you aren't able to predict behavior you're a retard
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@Zaydtheory @JoeGotBlown @prer4ph @tafphorisms "Swing states" are only described this way based on PREVIOUS elections and polling. There is no such thing available in the hypothetical
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I pressed red, but I think there’s an interesting reason to press blue:
If everyone were rational and self interested they would all press red. But some people aren’t rational, and pressing blue protects those people at significant risk to oneself.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@danny_bttrmn @JoeGotBlown @prer4ph @tafphorisms you're both retarded, cohorts come to similar conclusions, you can model the likelihood of different cohorts to vote different ways. the predictable cohorts form a core and the unlikely or unpredictable votes end up deciding the vote the same way swing states decide elections
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@GuentherZachary @JoeGotBlown @prer4ph @Zaydtheory @tafphorisms Your vote could have been different and someone else's vote could also have been different, cancelling out your vote change.
There is no situation in which your vote decides what other votes don’t
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@redtachyon April 23rd was the only real thought experiment, the social persuasion version of the thought experiment is extremely boring
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@Aella_Girl Completely different scenario, these results wont matter. There has to be self interest in other peoples survivals for blue's payoff to be weighed properly. In this scenario nobody cares if other people get banned.
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@AbouLeMagnifiqu @tafphorisms @prer4ph Nothing happens? How low is your iq? Nothing happens only if 100% of people vote red. Can you name me one time in history that every human on earth agreed on something? Red is comitting to a mass casualty event, blue is trusting that there are enough sensible people to avoid it
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@Zaydtheory @tafphorisms @prer4ph do you realize that you are creating the problem you want to solve? voting blue means putting yourself in danger, hoping that others will put themselves in danger to save the people who put themselves in danger, and so on infinitely... this is not the most rational behavior.
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@HonoBon43233155 @Anglo3000 @tafphorisms @prer4ph If you can understand that your life becomes worse then collectively people will realize their lives will be worse, at which point it becomes obvious to everybody that the self interest and collective interest are in alignment on blue
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@Zaydtheory @Anglo3000 @tafphorisms @prer4ph my life becomes worse if 40% died. But my life is even worse if I join those 40% (im dead too). If 40% of people kill themselves I will continue to live my life.
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@myname93353387 @tafphorisms @prer4ph you have extremely poor predictive ability, billions of people would press blue regardless of if it's a smart choice
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@Zaydtheory @tafphorisms @prer4ph The vast majority of people will live if an analogous scenario actually occurred for this reason. If you press red and people around you die the #1 thing to regret is that they didn't also press red and died needlessly.
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@NekoWitchMary @LeSub23 @tafphorisms @prer4ph You realize there is no actual coordination allowed in the hypothetical right? You're talking about a completely different scenario
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@LeSub23 @Zaydtheory @tafphorisms @prer4ph Coordinating blue is practically impossible.
If some foreign country sees you coordinating blue, they will coordinate red, simply to screw you up.
They don't care about your babies. They don't care about their own either. They will thank you though.
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Red Rocket@RedRock84834436
@DJtheDentist @NekoWitchMary @LadyGravemaster The global population would include India and China. Their governments could and would encourage all their people to hit red in the hopes of decimating other ethnic populations. (Same for Russia).
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@myname93353387 @tafphorisms @prer4ph They are affected, people you know will be dead, people who do important work in your community will be dead.
Also there is no coordination, not sure why people keep using that word. The only "coordination" is implicit understanding/prediction of how others will vote
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@Zaydtheory @tafphorisms @prer4ph There's no coordination problem with the red button. The fact that some people defect and die as a result is not a coordination problem, because those who coordinated are not affected.
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@Anglo3000 @tafphorisms @prer4ph maybe you don't but most people's lives would become much worse if 40% of the population died
that is why blue is the rationale and predictable choice, it is in the majority of peoples self-interest for everybody to live
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@RealDianeYap so if your family is given an isolated version of the test you're still pressing red? I don't believe that you believe what you're saying.
I think if you were to test every family in America almost every family would be >50% blue, so your claim about high trust is garbage
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It’s a common misunderstanding that blue button pushers make a high trust society.
High trust societies are composed of people who do the considerate thing, like return a lost wallet.
It’s very inconsiderate to put yourself in harm’s way and hope for others to risk their lives to save you.
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@GuentherZachary @prer4ph @tafphorisms I think they mean implicit coordination, but ya it's better described as a trust problem or a behavioral prediction problem rather than a coordination problem
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@prer4ph @Zaydtheory @tafphorisms People keep bringing up coordination, but part of the premise is that communication and coordination is disallowed. You're making judgement calls on how many vote blue and the likelihood of your vote being one that matters with 0 ability to influence outside of the vote itself.
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@tafphorisms @prer4ph and red doesn't???? if a single person doesn't press red then people are dying
100% of people have to press red for everybody to live
50% of people have to press blue for everybody to live
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@Aella_Girl I used to think like this, but I think it's undeniable at this point that mental illness is not an independent variable. It is not just that mentally ill people are drawn to deviance, deviance can and does create mental illness. Not always, but often.
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@keysmashbandit what an absolutely stupid thing to say
Every single thing humans have done was at one point novel. The word generally is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Humans sometimes do novel things, AI never does, tremendous difference
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My big problem with "AI is only good at solving problems similar/analogous to those they've encountered" is that that statement is just generally true of everyone, which is why we have like, university. And research papers. It's not an interesting thing to say!
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@pmarca Do you think people who make handcrafted clothing are valued more in todays society or in 1800? The fact that individual products cost more relative to mass produced slop does not indicate a higher value. The number of people making a living off handcrafed goods is vastly reduced
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