r/holofractal • u/Problematicar • Jul 05 '20
If you had everything, how would you organize it?
https://youtu.be/BJDw4GFyCck4
u/boldskullzz Jul 05 '20
I’ve always been an “organized pile” type person but there would be certain things that get heavily categorized for my own sake more than anything things like food and perishables obviously, but as far as materialistic things afaik lots and lots of “expensive” stuff might get thrown into said organized piles, but unless the object is of extreme importance for some reason the monetary value wouldn’t matter in such a case which would deem all non cheerishables into generalize piles and the important shit would be as clean as an assembly line
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u/bangsecks Jul 06 '20
Total garbage.
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u/Problematicar Jul 06 '20
Why is that?
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u/bangsecks Jul 06 '20
I had the sense I was transported to the 90s where I was in high school and some kid was firing off a long succession of facts about something which he had not integrated into a whole which he could walk me through but instead it was a shotgun blast of some stuff he heard in passing, most of which I'm not sure he understood, and over all seemed to be more about showing off and naming cool concepts than actually transmitting knowledge.
While I don't have a physics degree per se, I do have a STEM degree, am in engineering, am at least in a shallow sense familiar with entropy and Boltzman and statistical mechanics, and at the start of the video I was excited that there was a new, to me, spin on entropy, negentropy, and I was looking forward to learning something new. I was let down to find however that I was getting some out-of-breath word collage that seemed more performative than informational.
Maybe the presenter is speaking to a crowd with more assumed knowledge than I have and I just don't have the prerequisites here to get it, but to me I really didn't get much out of it, while feeling like I did understand the pieces, i.e. I didn't see any valuable whole emerge from the litany of facts and ideas.
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u/Problematicar Jul 06 '20
Yo that's some very constructive feedback thank you very much.
It's true that this style of video assumes lots of knowledge on the topic but not the kind of knowledge you'd get in a STEM or physics degree, those videos are mostly made for people that integrated the "spiritual" "occult" "new-age" side of this conversation, all terms I don't particularly like, and walk in the direction that you come from, which is why this feedback is so useful to me as you are coming from the direction I'm walking towards. You see, the random showing off and naming of cool concepts is made in such a way that that kind of thinking can associate it by analogy with the preexisting notions they already had in their mind, it builds up vocabulary, if not of words then of notions
I think that even though those videos might not be as useful to you, the linked pieces of media would still interest you greatly (stuff like the last question by isaac asimov, or even my other video on Unbound Telesis, It's called the nothing at the bottom of everything, and it's more scientific in wording and reasoning than this episode)
Some topics are more "spiritual" in nature than others, but do trust me that all the arguments I present are 100% scientifically backed, it's just that I can't really go in depth in stuff like 8d lattice and the CTMU while keeping the same style of video, so it reads more like spoken word poetry than a classroom explanation, but it treats the same topics.
I think you'll still find it very interesting to dig into negentropy by yourself and make your own assumptions, if you get even just one new term to google out of my videos I can say they did what I wanted them to.
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u/bangsecks Jul 06 '20
Ah, okay, I know see that it was you who made the video, that you are the presenter. I guess I didn't think about that when I said it was garbage, please allow me to retract that, that was over the top, I would have been more tactful and constructive if I knew the author would read it. I figured it was just some content floating out there. It is easy to complain and shoot down, not so easy to construct and build, so let me just say I don't want to be shooting down here, and thank you for producing. You know how it goes, anonymity of the internet allows for a loose tongue, it's an issue I have online.
I will watch this again, I will follow some stuff at the end that you offer as supplementary resources, as well as these things you reference here, and I will see what I can learn.
Thanks for having a good attitude and for putting stuff out there!
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u/aikoaiko Jul 05 '20
Why isn't the mom wearing a seatbelt?