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  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone20 rules later
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    22 days ago

    It’s wild that linear perspective was invented.

    Like, for a long time, this was a completely reasonable way to depict the world.

    But if I think about my mental model of what I’m seeing at this moment, it’s automatically in linear perspective. It doesn’t feel like I even need to try, it just is that way.

    It makes me wonder what other concepts are shaping (or could shape) my perception in such comprehensive and indelible ways.






  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    2 months ago

    https://scottbarrykaufman.com/who-created-maslows-iconic-pyramid/

    And his credentials:

    Scott Barry Kaufman is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world … Dr. Kaufman hosts the The Psychology Podcast  which has received over 30 million downloads and is frequently ranked the #1 psychology podcast in the world.

    When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow’s unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.







  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAntinatalism Rule
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    2 months ago

    I was a mild antinatalist for a while. Personally wanted kids, but felt the world was too broken to pass to a new generation that didn’t ask for it.

    And then – I know this sounds dumb, but whatever – I played Horizon: Zero Dawn.

    Parenthood in a time of armageddon is a central theme, and it’s not subtle about it. Every story element is named in a way that alludes to either parenthood or annihilation. The overarching plot describes the moral challenges of…

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    …planning a next generation of humans to rise from the ashes, thousands of years after the previous generation went extinct. They died to an AI catastrophe, but it works just as well as an allegory for climate change.

    Is it ethical to even subject a new generation to this, knowing what we know about how we fucked things up? If we’re gonna try, do we have a duty to put in a kill switch in case things go off the rails again?

    Obviously, the game sides firmly with the new humans, but it doesn’t dismiss these questions out-of-hand, and it’s okay with ambiguity and hypocrisy even on the part of Project Zero Dawn’s chief architect.

    The ending scene still gets me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJ_vSCJdO0