by orchaeus | Apr 8, 2020 | Status Update
“Honestly, when the fuck did you become an highly trained virologist or epidemiological expert? You think you understand the actual situation… because you have »opinions? Or have some spin you wish to apply to anecdotal reportage?” —...
by orchaeus | Apr 8, 2020 | Status Update
“He employed… the congregantes pessimi rhetological fallacy, being a fallacy of presuming (or asserting) that some miserable or negligent segment of a population represents the general character of the entire population… or even humanity as a whole....
by orchaeus | Apr 8, 2020 | Status Update
‘Some’ people are, too often, a segment of the population we have singled out to fulfill the purpose of validating a specific criticism we have of what is actually a small segment of a population, or humans in general. Yet we will pretend otherwise, or...
by orchaeus | Apr 7, 2020 | Status Update
“I am a materialist but I don’t like the word ‘materialist’ because it suggests that we know what ‘material’ is.” — Sir Roger Penrose
by orchaeus | Apr 6, 2020 | Status Update
“What this means is that »the aspect of your mind with which you determine what this means is explicitly offline» — for the foreseeable future.” — infraheard
by orchaeus | Apr 6, 2020 | Status Update
“Certain psychedelics… ayahuasca… it’s like annealing, which is a heat treatment in material science… whereby the introduction of entropy… when a substance cools, well, it acquires a new local minimum. So each time I did this...
