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@Hyolobrika @crunklord420
I remember reading an article on it some years back, but can't say I remember much of it. The conclusion was that no one new for sure, but they listed a few key "candidates" and why they could/couldn't be Satoshi, and I remember Asian being a common feature.

@Hyolobrika @crunklord420
True. Don't think anyone actually managed to track the real person down, but I think most leads pointed to someone of Asian heritage.

@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
>Hollywood trickery
What, in the 50s? You for real? That's even before the fucking Moon landing. Thinking they had the tech back then is bad enough, now we're going back almost another 2 decades?

@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
Not something I've heard about. Maybe something happened later in her life, but she felt things just fine in her youth.

@MisterRogersSnapped @MK2boogaloo @matrix @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @colonelj @repent @adolf @verita84 @maxmustermann
:blobshrug: Can't say I know one way or another. Eventually we reach a point were a particular question becomes relevant: if someone/something manages to simulate intelligent thought well enough, how can you distinguish between actual intelligence and a simulation or AI or whatever. If Helen Keller was that good at repeating whatever she was told to, how can we be sure it was just repetition and not her actual thoughts?

@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
Dictated, sure. Whether the thoughts themselves actually originated from her, or she just basically repeated what she was taught, that I don't now. Even today plenty of kids come out of university saying and writing a lot of marxist bs. Doesn't mean the ideas are their own.

This Helen Keller discussion made me wonder, why don't we get more conspiracy theories about really old events. Like what if Jesus only staged his death? What if Cesar never died, and really was a god, and retired to Argentina? What if Atlantis participated in a conspiracy, and the other conspiring nations had to sunk it because Atlantians were trying to spill out the truth?

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@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84

>What if Helen Keller never existed?
I mean... clearly a person calling herself Helen Keller existed... :peepoShrug:
youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M

I honestly don't even see a use in speculating whether she existed or not.
And if you can't imagine how one can communicate thoughts and ideas in different ways than you, than you lack imagination.

@MisterRogersSnapped @MK2boogaloo @matrix @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @colonelj @repent @adolf @verita84
>I think she was used.
Honestly, I could believe that. From what I remember about her story, is that she couldn't communicate with anyone until she was like 5-7 years old. Children lost in wilderness and recovered late in their development like this are really hard to be raised properly and usually lack the full intellectual development of an adult human. So I can definitely see Helen Keller be ripe for all sorts of manipulation.

@alyx I don't need to hire a carpenter. It's just cutting wood, anyone can do it. The damn (((carpenters))) are just trying to scam me out of my hard earned money. Now if you'll excuse me, the buckets I use to collect the water leaking through my roof are all full and need to be emptied now.
@harblinger @alyx @crunklord420 any of these “equity reports” or lists obsessing over people’s races is cringe at best and seriously damaging to actual collective equity and race relations at worst
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