Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by kergonath on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:12PM
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Another annoying one is the simulation theory group. They know just enough about Physics to build sophisticated mental constructs without understanding how flimsy the foundations are or how their logical steps are actually unproven hypotheses.
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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by JohnMakin on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:26PM
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Agreed. This one is especially annoying to me and dear to my heart, because I enjoy discussing the philosophy behind this, but it devolves into weird discussions and conclusions fairly quickly without much effort at all. I particularly enjoy the tenets of certain sects of buddhism and how they view these things, but you'll get a lot of people that are doing a really pseudo-intellectual version of the Matrix where they are the main character.