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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was in high school, I heard someone say "I don't know why poverty exists when we can just 3d print money". What the 3d has to do with this, I do not know

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[–] popekingjoe 25 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I've seen so many dog shit/brain dead takes on Reddit about various topics that I don't think I can even remember any of them specifically.

So instead, I'm choosing this take on climate change by Ben Shapiro.

It doesn't matter what side of this argument you fall on. Who is buying a house in an area that is slowly being flooded?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone who you convinced via a massive disinformation platform that it's not happening 🤔🧐

[–] popekingjoe 4 points 1 year ago
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[–] VoidCrow 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For example one that's baffled me was someone saying they don't believe in bad smells ??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did they explain them?

[–] VoidCrow 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't remember it well other than it was on a tumblr blog and as they were answering an anonymous ask they just casually mentioned that with no explanation

My only ideas are either they're filthy rich, have no sense of smell, or somehow think "bad" implies morality so they don't believe smells can be evil which like ?? No ones claiming otherwise lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, knowing how people are, my money is on the third option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well it's true. They're just misunderstood.

[–] Okokimup 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I've met some pretty heinous smells

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Huh? What’s baffling there? Do you believe in bad smells?

[–] Vupperware 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to my rural-raised coworker, that submersible implosion was apparently a conspiracy.

According to him, The people aboard the sub came up with a plan to escape their debt. There was nobody aboard the submarine, and it was designed to implode as a permanent diversion.

[–] Reliant1087 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems to be the least crazy of all the ones here so far. Plausible but very improbable.

[–] Vupperware 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why force your child to come with you?

I do think that if you’re going to fake a death this is just about the best way to do it, though.

[–] Reliant1087 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe the just disappear like in witness protection and this dude didn't want to leave his son alone? It's too far fetched though. Given all the questionable things Oceangate did, independent verification of the implosion sound waves and finding the actual debris, it is extremely improbable it was staged.

[–] RedditRefugeeTom 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is relevant to Issue 1 being voted on in Ohio. The issue will change voting on ammendments to go from a simple majority to 60% along with other stuff that's bad.

People have signs in their yard that say "Vote Yes...Protect the 2nd Ammendment". This state vote issue has nothing to do with the 2nd Ammendment and its the weirdest take to me right now.

[–] soviettaters 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like such a bland issue to have a sign for, even an accurate one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a strange one I don't necessarily disagree with (but I'm not sure I agree either:)

"Jazz is an American form of classical music"

According to someone that was in a music history textbook (don't remember the country but it was in Europe.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In my circles I'm the one with the strage takes. For example I don't believe in free will. I believe we're probably living in a simulation and if we ever create AGI it's most likely going to end us. Also we're probably the only intelligent life in the universe.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we're probably the only intelligent life in the universe.

Fairly boring simulation then isn't it?

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[–] MrFlamey 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Someone I used to work with went through a period where they were overworked and stressed out, but at the same time having some really bad thoughts about free will being an illusion. The theory was something like this:

Everything since the big bang is governed by physics, and Earth and all life on Earth is the result of particles coming together and interacting in interesting ways over billions of years. If this is true, everything we do is a foregone conclusion, and you could simulate and predict anything if you had a computer able to simulate the universe.

It sounds kind of plausible to be honest, but there is just no point in entertaining it. If we don't have free will, we'll never know for sure and cannot change it. If it feels like we have free will does it matter? Anyway, my colleague quit a short while later and went on to do other things and seemed much happier, so I guess it was just a weird period in his life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's basically my argument aswell. This however doesn't imply fatalism. It's not like you can just sit around and see what happens. Or you can but nothing happens except you'll just get bored and then the desire to do something else appears. Then you get up and go do that all the while thinking you made that choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just chose to downvote your comment /s

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[–] pinwurm 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an accountant, I was like “what does Adjusted Gross Income have to do with anything?”

I’m somewhat agnostic if we’re living in an simulation. It seems slightly more likely than any religion, but I have no evidence to support it. 🤷

I don’t think AI will kill us all. All it has to do is kill one person before we turn it off or legislate it’s limitations (like Asimov’s 3 Laws). I think it’s more likely to save us like develop technologies to combat climate change or create medicines.

Torn on the concept of free will.

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[–] Nelots 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free will one and the fear of an AI uprising is understandable, even if I disagree myself, but the other two... What makes you believe that in the entire universe, we're the only planet that managed intelligent life? And the simulation thing is just crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We may not be the only intelligent life in the entire universe but the only ones in our corner of it and that's why there is no signs of alien civilizations anywhere to be seen. I've also heard people much smarter than me give mathematical explanations as to why the evolution of intelligent life is way more unpropable than most people think.

Why I believe in simulation theory is just statistics; eventually we will develop technology that is able to run such simulations and we're going to create thousands of them. From that point on when new consciouss being is born it's unlikely it appears in our world instead of the thousands of simulations we're running. I just think this applies to us aswell. For us to be living in the base reality we'd either have to be extremely lucky or be the first ones to create such simulations.

[–] Nelots 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my eyes, if it's extremely unlikely that we're real, it's even more unlikely that another species is not only real, but has significantly better technological advancements than us as well. It's just the same problem with extra steps. But the thing about the simulation thing, is that it's completely unfalsifiable and has no impact on our reality even if it's true. So there isn't really any need to consider it outside of a philosophical conversation.

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[–] Grimr0c 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever heard of the Dark Forest theory?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, as well as dozen other suggested explanations for the fermi's paradox. This just happens to be the one I'd place my bets on.

[–] Grimr0c 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough!

[–] scottywh 1 points 1 year ago

The one I saw a couple of posts above this one about The Lord of the Rings...

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