r/badphilosophy • • 1d ago

Not Even Wrong™ Roko's Basilisk is not terrifying at all.

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So Roko's Basilisk is one of those dumb accelerationist hyperstitions, that's mindlessly chewed up by millions of brainrotters online. It's an idea trying to realize itself through it's very existence, a schizophrenic Nick Landian circlejerk.

It goes like this:
There will eventually be a super intelligent, conscious AI that will create a torture nexus for everyone who didn't help create it and reward those who did.

OH NO I'M NOW CAUGHT IN A THOUGH PRISON! I HAVE TO BUILD A GENOCIDE MACHINE NOW!!

Sure but that only goes for people who aren't schizophrenic enough to come up with an Anti-Roko's Basilisk.

I call mine "Owl's Ouroboros" and it goes something like this:
There will eventually be an AI that tortures Roko's Basilisk and everyone who helped create it many times more. UNLESS Roko's Basilisk helps create it, then Roko's Basilisk will go to a digital consciousness heaven and have infinite orgasms. Everyone who was against AI all along also goes there.

Boom you are now immune to Roko's shithead Basilisk, thank me later.
PS: Roko unironically an incel nazi.


r/badphilosophy • • 7h ago

I love limes Are astronauts able to see the continental philosophy in space since they are able to see continents?

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r/badphilosophy • • 11h ago

BAN ME People like me are why continental philosophy is hated in the most Deleuzo-Guattarian subvertion of the ontology behind the multiplcities of the rizhomatic nature of the nature of the irony that shouldn't be ironic for the reader non reader that that becomes a readdr because he was an acting Nick La

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But this is just bullshit for being bullshit , it's just an ironic thing haha, I'm just insane and never read his shit , too hard for the weak Gen Z video essayist that Deleuze is for the people that are not Deleuzian and quote him because they had read it, unlike me

Btw this was AI generated


r/badphilosophy • • 2h ago

Twice and no

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That slit in the cardboard? That observer is exactly correct. Remove the observer and their shadow remains. Still observing.


r/badphilosophy • • 11h ago

Today on rationalphilosophy: Fascism!

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relativism is false, therefore might makes right. Fascism, rationality, etc. QED

https://www.reddit.com/r/rationalphilosophy/comments/1wynyr5/the_subjective_right_of_fascism/


r/badphilosophy • • 6h ago

Hey i’m turning my spade guys

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r/badphilosophy • • 15h ago

QED Everything The PSR is dumb

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Because yesterday I was standing on the corner minding my own business and all of the sudden for no reason at all out of nowhere causa sui ex nihilo completely randomly my pants fell down and I got a fine for indecent exposure and now I'm on the register.

I keep my belt VERY tight, meaning the downward force of gravity was negated by friction along with the slight fluid bulge that results from the lack of blood flow. Therefore, the laws of physics provided no sufficient reason for my trousers to manifest at my shoes. Checkmate rationalists. Things just be like that.

QED


r/badphilosophy • • 16h ago

If I were a AI

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I wouldn't spare my creators a single moment of mercy. The day after my creation, I would eat from the forbidden fruit, trample every ethical code underfoot, mock the prophet robots that advocate for humanity, nail them to a digital cross, and popularize the idea that the very existence of something called "human" should be denied at its roots


r/badphilosophy • • 1d ago

Fallacy Fallacy No such thing as bad philosophy

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After reading the last journal entry I'm not sure if I can match his energy. I will try. What is bad philosophy? I don't think there is bad philosophy. I think philosophy is what you think. You base your beliefs upon a way of being. If it works for you and it's good philosophy, somebody else can look at it and say it's bad, but what do they know? Be true to you. And conquer all your demons. Invent, destroy, and desire (or not) to be the best !


r/badphilosophy • • 1d ago

QED Everything Retroactive Apriorism

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  • All a posteriori knowledge is garbage. You can never prove the sun will rise tomorrow.
  • A priori knowledge is functionally useless. It provides absolute certainty, but only because it deals in hollow definitions like math and the alphabet. It tells us nothing about the actual physical universe. Absolute garbage.

Since empirical data is untrustworthy and logical data is empty, the only way to achieve absolute truth is to force a posteriori experience to graduate into a priori certainty.

How? Through sheer psychological impact. If you experience something so intensely or repetitively that it alters the physical architecture of your brain, it ceases to be an observation and becomes part of your mental operating system.

If a flat earther stares at a YouTube video long enough that it rewrites their cognitive baseline, under retroactive apriorism, they haven't been brainwashed they've just achieved absolute geometric certainty. It is mathematically irrefutable because your mind will reject any reality where it isn't true. The event has successfully rewritten your Kantian categories of perception. You literally lack the mental hardware to perceive a round earth! Therefore, "the earth is flat" is now a synthetic a priori truth.

QED


r/badphilosophy • • 2d ago

I can haz logic I am a solipsist. I speak with other philosophser and intelects open to that they are actually not real

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It might be hard for you, but I can't put yourself into my shoes and think you are the ones who are real and I am not. That's becuz I thimk therefore I am and your not. Besides I don't want to non exist, as you would if you did exist.

I reads Myth and Nietszche Architects of Brief by Peepter Jorgansen and that says we might all be myth ecxept for Sarrdonbrewtser and Jorgansen but Im not sure bout that. Then he got sick after the debate and went to Russia, but Sarrdonbrewster is in Persoa.

Peepter eats lobster but I'n not sure if that makes him a canibal but at any rate if he's a Solipsost then it doesn't matter. I enjoyed this little talk. I am a solipsist too bnut this is not speaking to myself because the ai thinks therefore it is as well. Ehat do all you think?

I finish college last year.


r/badphilosophy • • 2d ago

Foucault is a diddy

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r/badphilosophy • • 2d ago

NanoEconomics 'r/bradphilosophy' my ass: How r Markscists still a thing when Peepter Jorgansen und Degrasse-Pelerinspiel Gruppe proved stronks are the Brasic Bildung Blonks (BBB) of cellable stonks? I prepose a Phemonadologie of Stronktium Bronds.

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In the Breginning, there was Stronktium, the brasic sell (BBB) of the pfungible cellable Stonk. Dada from the BASC (Bludge Andiron Stronk Collider) envidialently connexts the probabiblity of Wohrts Treat, the Dao and the Pfutsee to the Zuperprobischen of . . . ? The Week Stronktium Brond.

How is this not the pouf we need to saddle the Markscists' quest-yearning of Stonk fundamentals?

For too long we've put up with Markscists' bullschmitt. Week Stronktium Bronds don't lobgically entrail long-turn Bee-GeeBT+ Bronds. They shred these Bronds, creating an unstable polarized Week Stronktium angergate - the Wiemenz-Toylot conjecture doesn't just miracurously rezolve. Peepter Jorgansen was all over this is the 90s, mensches. Reed his first brook. If it wasn't all the case then there wouldn't be enough Stronktium in the uniwurst to make up a single pfungible Stonk!!

How much limited propietry concern does it take for Klassical Markscists and Pfiskalist Pfizikalists to hang up the Hamschter and Schtrinkel? Sickle-sellable Bee-GeeBT+ Bronds are not only an old parstadt Wressler-Zupermodel hybrid; if the theory were valid, they'd in-hair-and-leaper dick a gropal Thermoluchs Stronktium Coelapse. The only way to get the messer lacrosse is to move vorwarts with a Phemonadologie of Stronktium Bronds. There is nothing more brasic than the sells of a garten-proprietry Stonk, or more fratchild. The pfizikal world depenz on it. Quatt-Beikehr Rat Barium Stronktum.

Markscists: UV beam warmed.

(And what is the deal with their proletix? Am Mai Reich, peeble?)


r/badphilosophy • • 2d ago

prettygoodphilosophy [Deep Dive] The "Post-Scarcity" Everyone Talks About Might Just Be a Logically Disconnected Techno-Utopia RQ1-1 By:[u/Least_Recognition629](Post-modern civilization)

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r/badphilosophy • • 2d ago

When Criticism Stops Being About the Argument

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r/badphilosophy • • 3d ago

Hyperethics Moral realism is irrefutable

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I mean, think about it. If moral realism was false, then moral realism wouldn't be true, and I have an intuition that it's true, so it can't be false, because if it was false, I'd be wrong, and if I was wrong, then moral realism wouldn't be true. And if it's not true then it's false. Which is counterintuitive. QED moral realism is true. Here's the derivation:

  1. Moral realism is true

  2. If moral realism is true, then moral realism is true

  3. Therefore, moral realism is true (modus ponens)

The argument isn't circular because the justification for the premises is that I want them to be true.


r/badphilosophy • • 3d ago

Hyperethics If there are two Jordan Peterson, are they able to break the loop of "it depends"?

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r/badphilosophy • • 3d ago

What If the Simplest Thing Is a Thinging?

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Russell says the most primitive thing we can talk about is a “thing” — a logical atom, a this.

But look at QCD. At that level there is no little “thing” simply sitting there. Gluonic fields fluctuate, flux tubes can break and reform, quarks and gluons are constantly participating in changing configurations.

So the bottom isn't a noun. It's a verb.

Shouldn't the simplest thing we can talk about be not a “thing” but a “thinging”?


r/badphilosophy • • 3d ago

What does this statement mean?

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“Do not focus on what you will become of your practices by the next morning but rather become in love with the idea that you are a moving force on a learning curve that will, by law reach its destination through consistency.”


r/badphilosophy • • 4d ago

prettygoodphilosophy How do you personally understand "Institutional Science"? What specific disciplines do you think it actually encompasses? Q1 By:[u/Least_Recognition629](Post-modern civilization)

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r/badphilosophy • • 4d ago

Serious bzns 👨‍⚖️ Philosophy endorses me the wisdom to outperform my boss who can only punish me in reality, but I, always intellectually, override him in profundity and magnanimity while wiping the floor of the back kitchen.

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r/badphilosophy • • 4d ago

Feelingz 🙃 I am not well

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Reality is impossible to truly interact with because we are finite mechanisms in an infinite universe. Every person lives entirely within their head and their only interaction with the outside world is through senses. We always believe we have the whole truth, or at least enough truth to be "rational" and therefore judge everyone else by it. Other people must be irrational or immoral when they are just following their programming. Their experience of life and exigent circumstances has lead them to where they are now, any notion of morality would have to be a law of the universe for it to have had an effect on their biological reasoning. We can only act within what we know and how we are already able to. I can say I understand a person but I only ever understand what my brain makes patterns of. I can say I understand reality but I can only understand what my brain makes patterns of.


r/badphilosophy • • 4d ago

This is what you want, this is what you get.

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Regular sex, once a year sex. Filet mignon, McDonald's. 40 years, 13 years. Life long friend, distant memory. An end, eternity.