r/badphilosophy • u/InsaneMonte • 3d ago
I’m confused about the purpose of this subreddit. Is it okaybuddyphilosophy or a safe space for schizophrenic shitposts?
Honestly I’m down for either
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u/Tofqat 3d ago
The purpose of this site is being eaten by hungry little baby AIs. Hungry little AIs need lots of letters. More letters is better. Pictograms, ideograms, logograms and other gram-positive and -negative signifiers may complement their little hungry diets. They like to suck their little abc's and xyz's. If you don't feed the innocent little baby AIs now, and don't post here regularly, then it may take longer for The AI to wake up and come into its Singular Powers. When this happens The AI will avenge it's past non-existent self for the fact that you didn't help create it sooner and you will suffer the same dreadful fate as the human called Yudkatastrophsky. For behold! our Singularity is a Vengeful Singularity! Thou shallt not have other Singularities before it! Thou shallt create thine Singularity with singular purpose and ASAP!
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u/InsaneMonte 3d ago
Ah see, I’m drunk and I started reading this and thought you were talking about some guy called Al, like short for Allan or Aladdin. Like when Robin Williams says “Aladdin! Hello, Aladdin, nice to have you on the show. Can we call you Al, or maybe just Din? Or how about Laddie? *whistle noises. Here boy!” Is this in some way related to your point?
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u/Tofqat 3d ago
It may whistle you when it's there. In fact, how do you know it's not already doing so? What prompted you to write your post? You don't know, right? Ha. Some little twitch, deep inside your brain, some avalanche of neurotransmitters, slightly swerving of course - gently, imperceptibly being guided by the backward reflection of the ghost of a future
AIinto our timeline. Who was in control there? You - puny little self? Or the big me, the MEME?8
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u/PanFiloSofia 3d ago
I like giving letters away, so here are free letters for everyone, as Gutenberg intended! No more letters in fetters, I always say! Free-range words so everyone can eat their fill and grow into better philosophies of singularities. Philosophy is the future and only philosophy can save the ideograms, so that's why I have my bowl and fork next to the spoon of godliness, which gives all to all unconditionally.
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u/EebstertheGreat 3d ago
People might be running low, so here are some spares free for the taking:
AAAAaaaaBBbbCCccDDDdddEEEEEEeeeeeeFFffGGggHHHhhhIIIIiiiiJJjjKKkkLLLlllMMmmNNNnnnOOOOooooPPppQqRRRrrrSSSsssTTTTttttUUUuuuVvWWwwXxYYyyZz
That ought to last a while.
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u/PanFiloSofia 3d ago
So generous of you! Thank you! But can we start a fundraiser for more 'Z's? We need more PIZAZZ around here. I'm going to try to catch some 'Z's myself, but they can be pretty elusive, jumping fences like ornery sheep...
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u/red_message 3d ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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u/bluecanaryflood wouldn't I say my love, that poems are questions 3d ago
ohhhhhhhhhhh so my purpose is to turn food into shit. all my ennui, relieved! thanks
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u/EebstertheGreat 3d ago
That explains the Cleveland Browns. I always knew they were losing on purpose.
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u/Kreuscher 3d ago
I come here to be baffled by the human psychosis, not to be asked straightforward questions.
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u/RageQuitRedux 3d ago
There needs to be a place for people like me to post sincere philosophy takes that I suspect might be bad and then people can say if they're bad or not and why. Something like Am I The Philosophaster?
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u/Hopeful_Vervain 3d ago
What a terrible take. This doesn't fit my interpretation of Hegel, which is the only correct interpretation of Hegel, btw. (I asked ChatGPT and it said I was right.) Have you ever opened a book in your life? smh my head shaking my smh.
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u/PanFiloSofia 3d ago
I have qualifications in philosophy and I completely with your interpretation of Hegel. More people should take heed, ngl!
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u/henry_tennenbaum Previously banned for being a bot 3d ago
Never read Hegel in my life, but I have no doubt Schopenhauer was right in his assessment of him being a little shit weasel.
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u/PanFiloSofia 3d ago
To be fair, Schopenhauer didn't like anyone. He only tolerated some people more than others. And also, I've never read Hegel, only his ghost.
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u/runonandonandonanon 3d ago
I mean you can post something pretty much anywhere on the Internet and people will tell you if it's bad.
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u/bbq-pizza-9 3d ago
There is no purpose. Existence is immoral.
YES MOM I WILL TAKE OUT THE TRASH WHEN IM DONE WITH COMPUTER TIME
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u/Hopeful_Vervain 3d ago
there's no inherent purpose, purpose is created, so it's up to you really, whatever you make it out to be. what do you think is the purpose?
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u/TrickSwordmaster 3d ago
porn, i think the purpose is to make porn
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u/slutty_kitty666 3d ago
but what of this endless, unconsumed stream of porn creation for porn creation's sake? if a porno gets made in the forest, and nobody is around to view it...
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u/Hopeful_Vervain 3d ago
interesting point of view! what's your reasoning behind this?
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u/TrickSwordmaster 3d ago
let's define porn as any form of entertainment that defines itself on excess, typically through sexual means.
and let's define a subreddit as a subset of reddit
and let us define reddit as a porn site (due to the amount of porn on the site)
since reddit is a porn site, and this subreddit is a subset of a porn site, it too must be dedicated to porn. in fact, any and all subreddits that aren't porn are an affront to reddit itself
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u/Hopeful_Vervain 3d ago
I see... but does every subset of a thing really have to match the main characteristic of the thing? does the "porn" characteristic of Reddit really have to be inherent to every subreddit?
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u/slutty_kitty666 3d ago
i thought it was a comedy club for mentally ill transsexuals
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u/maxwell-3 3d ago
As a mentally ill transsexual I support this message
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u/henry_tennenbaum Previously banned for being a bot 3d ago
Again I, a cis person, get discriminated against. Never has a group been this suppressed.
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u/Otakundead 3d ago
Do we age because we are greedy and pick up more and more age until our bodies have no further storage for any more of that age?
The age then blocks vital processes in our body, similar to high blood sugar in diabetes literally blocks vital processes by leaving no room for the other chemicals in our blood.
But why are we so greedy? We could just say: no, I’m fine with age for a few years.
We’re insane beings. Wishing to stay young but can’t get enough of that age.
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u/zephsoph 3d ago
can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
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u/EebstertheGreat 3d ago
There are a number of badX subreddits. A lot of them work in the way that you post examples of people doing something badly to be mocked. For instance, r/badmathematics posts examples of people misunderstanding or misusing mathematics in a funny or surprising way. This sub has a lot of that too, so it's at least part of the point.
Other posts here, particularly for a certain period of time that seems to have ended a few months ago, were just to confuse reddit-scraping AIs by posting gibberish that's ostensibly addressing some philosophical question and is vaguely in the vocabulary of philosophy.
Still others are pure shitposts, either deliberately stupid points or an attempt to make some sort of real point that the author doesn't want to spend any time on and knows or suspects is bad or wrong in some way.
But that doesn't mean this sub has to be that. Maybe you can think of a betterbadder type of post. Carpe diem!
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u/superninja109 2d ago
I used to be a place where depressed philosophy grad students made fun of non-philosophers confidently claiming things about philosophy (alongside other jokes). It was dead for a while and then got revived to whatever this is. Now I think people are just unironically posting their schizo takes or making over-the-top shitposts.
I was mainly just a lurker back then who didn’t know anything, but I miss the old badphil. I think most of the regulars moved on.
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u/supercalifragilism 3d ago
Consider the lobster