SCM501 - Participating in a Community 2 - JRE Top Picks

In this blog I'll be discussing the interaction I had with the community I spoke about in the previous blog (reddit.com/r/joerogan).

Over the course of a week or so I kept a rough eye out for any topics that I might want to chime in on, usually I will browse the comment threads for these topics without giving any input back.

Example 1


The first example of participating in this community I have is from a thread in which people were discussing their understanding of the simulation argument.

Viewing the thread creators initial post might help give some context as to what I'm talking about here, the topic was born from a recent podcast Joe did wherein he had a notable philosopher on his podcast and the resulting conversation involved some talk regarding the 'simulation theory'. In this thread people were throwing their two cents in regarding the validity of the theory. I threw my opinion in and got a couple replies back (yay).

Some people were losing sight of what the theory actually proposes, so I pointed that out before explaining how I feel many people are losing sight of the second proposition which I think is the most likely, there will likely be a currently unforeseen reason to which we (or base reality) is deterred or prevented from making simulations detailed enough to evolve being as conscious as we are. The limiting factors could come from a number of places but I think it is most logical to ask why would a sentient race not use the computing power for something more urgent? Is it really possible for computing power to be so abundant that we have enough left to use it on simulating universes? I doubt this is very likely in base reality but who knows, base reality could be unlike anything we have ever known.

The response to my post was essentially agreeing with me and following on from that someone replied to him, telling him that he was overthinking it. The respondent replied with saying we are not rejecting the simulation theory, we are discussing the odds of getting option 3, it doesn't seem like much overthinking is going on to me.  

Example Two


In this example someone posted a video (that has since been deleted) in which a high school aged kid gets in a fight with a bigger kid and manages to choke him out in a skillful martial arts display. This resulted in the fight being shut down quickly instead of turning into a bloody fist fight. My thoughts where that martial arts appear to be a good skill to teach kids in order to get out of sticky situations like this.

I had two respondents which countered this thought by saying submission techniques are only helpful in 1v1 situations, when multiple people are coming at you it will require some form of striking in order to quickly fend off one person at a time. This makes complete sense to me so I think it would be wise for people to know both! Makes sense.

The other response was mocking at how people would prefer that kids fought using fists because that makes for more entertaining videos on the internet, both seem just as entertaining to me provided that you understand what the submission is doing.

Example 3


In my final example I posted in a thread related to climate change, the video posted explained the basic science as to why the earth is warming, in the comments people were discussing various aspects related to climate change awareness so I threw my two cents into the wind to see if anything stuck, I got plenty of up-votes and one reply in which someone misunderstood me which I promptly corrected, the up votes here tell me that what I said wasn't completely insane (yay) but didn't really spark anyone to reply either.

Regarding climate change my comment sums up what I think is the problem when it comes to climate change deniers or just people who don't care but then again who am I to speak when I am still driving a car and all that jazz. I will welcome new laws regarding c02 emissions although.


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