Contingent

I don't believe that. I think what people are trying to do is link me to that retard in such a way that...

Hym "How I'm perceived is contingent upon how I spoke about the retard as a form of karmic retribution. You're not directing the rhetoric at me because it's concordant with truth. Your saying about me because you want there to be some form of retribution for someone you have more sympathy for than me. That's why we get all of the asymmetrical motivational policing. You'd be quick to say that I'm motivated by attention seeking or profit motives or fame but I can just as easily point the spotlight to your motivations or claim that you're projecting. It isn't productive and what I would or have posited is likely more consistent with truth than the claim that I did THIS so that everyone would love me and throw money and women at me and carry me around on a Xerxes throne."

by Hym Iam October 16, 2023

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Contingency Scientific Method

A scientific approach that treats results as contingent on specific historical, environmental, and contextual conditions that might not hold elsewhere or elsewhen. It rejects the assumption that findings should replicate everywhere forever, instead asking: under what conditions does this hold? What had to be true for this result to appear? Contingency Method is essential for historical sciences like evolutionary biology or cosmology, where you can't rerun the tape and see if things turn out the same way. It produces knowledge that comes with an expiration date and a location stamp—not because it's bad science, but because reality itself is contingent.

"We found this amazing result in 2020, tried to replicate in 2021, and failed completely. Contingency Scientific Method says: maybe the finding was contingent on pandemic conditions that no longer exist. Science isn't broken—reality just changed."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026

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Post-Mortem, Contingent Nihilist

Weak, Alex. Weak sauce. Pretty soon you're going to be doing your videos in spastically-colored suits and accusing your audience of not knowing what they mean when they say words.

Hym "Wouldn't I be a Post-Mortem, Contingent Nihilist? I mean, I've been pretty explicit. And I've infected Jordan Peterson with it. Now he's haunted by the idea that no matter what he does, immediately after his death his kids will have terrible misfortune. At the moment of his death he can assume that the rest of time will occur. His loved ones effectively die with him. And now, in his insane desperation, he's trying to collude with the government to make earth hell for 'the wrong type of person' to poison the well with his own rotting corpse."

by Hym Iam June 9, 2024

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