Samio (unc who wants to help you learn philosophy)

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Humanoid anxiety engine. Studied philosophy, with disastrous emotional results. Currently working on my streaming: https://www.twitch.tv/el_samio The focus of my streams is to make philosophy and logic approachable, through courses and games.

A screenshot from the game "Silent Dragon" by East Technology and Taito, released in 1992. It's the intro to "Stage 3", we see a crude map of the game levels. To the right we see a gloriously pixelated and very blatant Jagi from Fist of the North Star / Hokuto no Ken. Like, a straight up rip from the manga.
an edit of the "goose asking question" meme, in this case subverted because the belligerent goose asks a question "Who put them [Chinese people] in extreme poverty?" in response to the claim "China lifted hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty ever since the 1970s", but the simple historical answer is "The British".
A screenshot of a logic workbook, it says: "Exercises: Translate the following sentences into wfs (well-formed formulas)." And then a list of 16 sentences of increasing complexity. In the top right corner, two example formalizations which are a mesh of logic symbols, predicates and variables.
A formalization of the following argument into first order logic syntax: "Some people study logic. All people who study logic are nerds. Therefore, some people are nerds." Afterwards we see a bunch of symbols declaring the more abstract logical relationship of those sentences.
some hideous mutated humanoid, turned into some predatory beast, bonches and tendons twisted to allow a tortured form of quadruped movement. its grayish skin, bulging skull plates and deformed teeth all show this creature is no longer a man.
A photograph of the comic book The Ark, by Jack T. Chick and associates. It details a white southern pastor type warning some pulp-comic looking dude about the sinful ways of the antediluvian world or something.
A colored comic scene from some obsessive christian evangelist pov. It seems to depict life before the biblical flood and it's just a bunch of people doing weird sex stuff.
Page 260 of the comic Logicomix. In it, we see a fictional, but plausible, conversation between Bertrand Russell (hat) and Ludwig Wittgenstein. They're walking through a snowy field in inter-war Belgium. Russell comments: "[You're wrong, here's a non-inane one: "At least three things exist in this universe." To wit, look at...] this branch: three leaves exist on it, therefore "at least three things exist in the universe!" Wittgenstein replies: "No, no, no! You are so wrong! You can say "at least three leaves exist on this tree... But you cannot say "In the universe"! Logic must not allow it, since you cannot picture the universe!" He continues: "The paradoxes should have alerted you, Russell! Logic is vacuous... it cannot speak reality! Try and make empty form speak of substance and you get poppyock!" Russell replies: "What about the statement "Tomorrow it will either snow or not snow? It's "empty form", yet totally true!" And Wittgenstein ends the page with "Yes, but it tells us NOTHING of the weather tomorrow!" Russels thoughts are shown in a yellow note at the bottom. "There it was: for twenty years I had sweated to justify the existence of a machine for manufacturing tautologies!"
A glitched out screenshot of Windows XP, in which Microsoft Explorer has crashed, and so dragging the emergent popup leaves a trail of repeated screens.
a post from tumblr by user pattern-recognition the post is composed of two 80s mad-max-esque catgirls with HUGE 80S HAIR, spiked black leather fetish getups and GUNS. They're riding some sort of futuristic motorcycles. The text below says : "This type of 1980s sex and violence catgirl with wild frizzy hair is like the extinct megafauna progenitor of today's various catgirl species."
A screenshot from a thread over at twitter, dated 2023. In it, David Szymanski, the main developer of hit boomer shooter Dusk, calls out Tim Sweeney for this predatory, erratic, untrustworthy behaviour. Sweeney replies claiming his decisions are "basic, non-political American principles, such as free-markets" which is a gigantic contradiction and a self-own the magnitude of which hasn't left my head in these three years. Fuck Tim Sweeney.
A screenshot of the program "Tabletop Simulator". In a messy virtual table, we see a lot of clutter, dice, a board, a calculator displaying the number 5318008, and some random tokens. The focus of the picture, however, are five figurines, each on their own stand. From left to right: A colorful landsknecht, a hooded demon with a long, barbed tongue, some hideous giant slug creature, a humanoid fly demon holding a sword, and decrepit ghoul with a bloated stomach in the "gaki" style or tradition.
A meme of the "aww you're sweet / hello, human resources?!" format. On the top we see Harry DuBois from the game Disco Elysium. He introduces himself by saying "I'm a mentally ill person and my addictions and depression have ruined my life.", to which a random lady swoons over and says "Awww, you're sweet." On the bottom we see Yaniko/Yanineko, the protagonist of Chainsmoker Cat. She is a gray haired catgirl, smoking from a balcony in a cheap japanese second floor apartment. She says the same thing: "I'm a mentally ill person and my addictions and depression have ruined my life.", but this time the random lady is in a panic, calling someone urgently on her phone, screaming: "Hello, human resources?!". The joke is that these are both stories about broken people struggling with addictions and an existentially collapsed life but the response is incongruent.
A black and white photograph of Raymond Smullyan. He is in the middle of a big, toothy smile. His long white hair and beard make him look like a wizard.
A list of four "rules" or equivalences for propositional logic. They depict the double negation, transposition, association, commutation and distribution equivalences.
The cover image for the game Skate Story (by Sam Eng), a crystalline figure skates through a bizarre, dark, jagged underworld.
a gif of how a crude yet horrifying face of unbearable pain morphs from the texas climate report
An answer to the puzzle discussed above. The answer is "Are you a truth-teller if and only if the left path leads to the capital?" Accompanying the answer is a truth table diagramming the possible outcomes.
A set of arguments for propositional logic. They are weird formulas composed of propositional letters (P's, Q's, Rs, etc) and logic symbols.
A biiiiiiig conceptual genealogical tree that covers "Mathematical Logic and Foundations" roughtly around "1847 - 1947". It shows the connections between several important logicians and mathematicians, including, but not limited to, Boole, Frege, Cantor, Bertrand Russell, David Hilbert, Alfred Tarski, Kurt Godel, among others.
A screen cap from the intro of Hokuto No Ken / Fist of the North Star. In it, we see a gang of post-apocalyptic goons riding cool 80s style motorized tricycles. In the background we see the shells of bombed out, vacant buildings. There is a leading figure amongst the mooks, Shin, a blond long-haired man wearing a purple raider outfit. He's standing on his seat, arms crossed, wind making his hair flail wildly.
A prismatic crystalline humanoid, skating in a dark blue "world".
A screenshot of a videogame, in crisp pixel style. We see some anime man with slicked brown hair, wearing a brown trenchcoat, aim an absolute monster of a sci-fi gun slightly towards the viewer. To the left of the image, some old school text prompt computer monitors. The character is Gillian Seed from the game Snatcher.
a screen capture of some fucking goober called elon musk over at twitter claiming "we are workign on semantic (AI) search. Will show posts of X that match the meaning of your search, not just the text."
An image of Bart Simpson based on the old intro of The Simpsons. We see Bart, a kid wearing a red shirt and blue shorts, with matching blue sneakers, angrily write on a chalkboard. Bart is inside a school classroom, we see beige desks and a yellowish-brown teacher's desk at the bottom. The chalkboard is a dark green and contains the text ""Death of the author" does not mean literary interpretation is arbitrary" written over and over, implying Bart was punished to write that sentence several times.
A selection from a logic workbook. Pure text. It reads: "A certain country is inhabited only by truth-tellers (people who always tell the truth) and liars (people who always lie). Moreover, the inhabitants will respond only to yes or no questions. A tourist comes to a fork in a road where one branch leads to the capital and the other does not. There is no sign indicating which branch to take, but there is a native standing at the fork. What yes or no question should the tourist ask in order to determine which branch to take? [Hint: Let A stand for ‘‘You are a truth-teller’’ and let B stand for ‘‘The left-hand branch leads to the capital.’’ Construct, by means of a suitable truth table, a statement form involving A and B such that the native’s answer to the question as to whether this statement form is true will be yes when and only when B is true.]"
A screenshot from a romhacked version of Final Fantasy V, for the super famicom. Using blocky pixel people and furnite, it depicts a pub full of pirates. Our flamboyantly dressed main character, Butz, is talking to a pirate who says: "Captain... So dreamy..." referring to the character Faris, who while AFAB, lives as a man.
A screenshot of a modified Final Fantasy V for the super famicom. Using charming, colorful pixel tiles and sprites, it depicts a large living room inside a wattle and daub house. There is a chimney on top, a large rug, a bookcase, a table and four stools. There is a highly cartoony, blocky set of characters. An older man with a long beard, green robes and pointy hat, Zok, is saying "Ohh, Princess Lenna!". On the middle, three dressed up weirdos adress Zok. These are three of the main characters of FFV, Galuf dressed as a white mage, Lenna dressed as a black mage, and Butz (HE'LL ALWAYS BE BUTZ TO ME) dressed as a monk.
A set of rules for tree proofs. They detail how to recursively analyze complex formulas for propositional logic into their basic parts. Visually, the picture is a bunch of lines, variables and funny logical squiggles.
a screenshot from the video "role play tournament (be aggressive)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XGp5ix8HE we see a large, hairless white man crying while facing up towards the heavens. he is sitting at a table. he is holding a can of soda with his right hand, and writing with a pen or pencil with his left. there are some roleplaying dice nearby. he has written the text "I AM A MONSTER ! ! !" on his sheet.
A super cool screenshot from the game Skate Story by Sam Eng. We see a highly surreal scape, with some sort of cosmic subway floating upon a ring world of sorts? The mass below and to the side are vague and evocative. To the right and upper parts of the picture, we see a distant station and a big, blood red moon.
A somewhat surreal screenshot of the game Skate Story by Sam Eng. In a low and extreme angle, we see a strange crystalline skater, kicking off towards a large red moon. In the background, we see an alien sky full of stars and some sort of city.
A small clip from youtube where it shows I successfully disputed a (bogus) copyright claim.
a derived meme format of the "long day factory" format. In it, we see a panel from existentialcomics, in which a blonde man wearing a long green jacket (Soren Kierkegaard) walks to a dreary "existential despair factory". the background is equally depressing, with grey cloudy skies and indistinct sprawling dark gray buildings. A calico cat with a tie shoddily edited on has been superimposed on the image, with a crude text speech bubble that reads "Hope I don't suffer existential despair"
An image depicting a very small tableaux, or tree proof, a method for checking semantic validity in propositional and first order logic. It's a bunch of P's and Q's, with some odd symbols such as implication → and negation ¬
A capture from the movie Porco Rosso. In it, the titular Porco Rosso, a pilot turned into a pig-like humanoid, says "Better a pig than a fascist". Porco Rosso is dressed in a tan trench coat with matching hat, round dark glasses and has a funny moustache. To Porco Rossos' right side (and the viewer's left) we see another pilot, wearing a military style suit, with various badges and medals.
A screenshot from https://www.twitch.tv/team/tanktube it shows a big logo that says TANK TUBE on the top left, a Lenin 1 labor voucher bill on the top center and right, a list of cool streamer below the Tank Tube logo, and in the center, an overview of DaveLeg3nd's stream (showing azovian nazis doing nazi shit)
a zoomed in picture of ULTRAKILL's v1. a blue humanoid robot with a lamp-light face, moving through a red background, aiming some sort of futuristic revolver
A couple of puzzles from Raymond Smullyan's book titled "What is the name of this book?" The text is as follows: 28. In this problem, there are only two people, A and B, each of whom is either a knight or a knave. "A" makes the following statment: "At least one of us is a knave." What are A and B? 29. Suppose A says, "Either I am a knave or B is a knight." What are A and B?"
a screenshot of a twitter post, dated may 21 2014 in it I posted: "Just because you perceive a thought or idea "inside" you, doesn't mean you're the one who thought it. It isn't necessarily "your" thought."
a screenshot from the site formerly known as twitter it's a tweet aged march 31, 2019 in it I posted: ""It's the libs and feminists' fault men are becoming fascists because they don't have enough sex and nuclear 19th century families!" is indiscernible from a /pol/ member's verbal diarrhea."
a screenshot from the From Software masterpiece Metal Wolf Chaos XD. In it, we see a heavily militarized white house, with reinforced walls, turrets and stationed soldiers. The text on the bottom says "They shouldn't call it the White House. They should call it "The Fight House"."
a picture composed of two parts, on the left, a magic the gathering card titled Naga Vitalist on the right a zoomed uncropped picture of the card art the art is a green-yellow snake person being sassy in front of a jungle background.
Three stills from the movie The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman (1957). In them, the knight Antonious Block is confessing to a figure he can not see. He holds the wall as if to brace himself, while a stern carved statue does not face him. He says "I want to confess as honestly as I can, but my heart is empty. And emptiness is a mirror turned to my own face. I see myself and am seized by disgust and fear."
a positively beaming tan brown hog, snout full of goopy substance. its ears are retracted and a beatific contented look emanates from this glorious creature
An incredibly cool photograph of an super cool awesome person, Raymond Smullyan. The man looks like he was pulled from an airbrushed van wizard fantasy art, with long flowing white hair and a magnificent beard to match. He's smiling warmly at the camera, sitting next to a desk. On the desk are a bunch of books, presumably some of his all time greatest such as "What is the Name of This Book?" and "Satan, Cantor and Infinity".
A meme in the "split road" format. A kid in a blue shirt and shorts is facing a fork in the road he has been following. To the left, there is a sunny, bright and pleasant path leading to a radiant castle. To the right, the background turns dark and stormy, and the road leads to a dark, ruined castle. Over the kid, the text "gamers in 2023" has been superimposed. The bright, happy castle has text that says "a 15 dollar high concept indie that runs on a potato made by a team of neurodivergents". The foreboding evil castle ruins say "70 dollar + 20 dollar DLCs + microtransaction bullshit made by a company that fires union workers and whose CEO is a sex pest".
a picture of my streaming schedule in black and white, and with silly doodles all over "Tuesday 8pm UTC-6: More Cryptmaster. Hopefully without stuttering scuff this time. Thursday 6pm UTC-6: Esoteric Ebb: SHUT THE FUCK UP INTELLIGENCE Saturday 6pm UTC-6: New Get into Philosophy: Get into formal logic! A discrete math course livestreamed on twitch."
A highly stylized oil-like illustration of three burly naked oiled updwarves being tender and fraternal with each other.
An image composed of a tweet by Richard Dawkins on the bottom and an edit of a manga panel of two extremely smug anime girls. The tweet says: "Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them." The girls say (right to left, because it's manga): "Eeeh? Really!? Naive realism? What a loser! Only kids believe in these vestiges of Platonism! Isn't he supposed to be an atheist? Kya ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
a picture of my streaming schedule in black and white, and with silly doodles all over "Tuesday 8pm UTC-6: More Cryptmaster. We're gonna riddle our way back to sentience. Thursday 6pm UTC-6: Esoteric Ebb: My god is dead, the people are my new god. Saturday 6pm UTC-6: Warframe: Space ninja rock punching in SPACE! Help, I'm only MR1! + Open study hours."
a sticker image of the character ichihime from mahjong souls. she's a smug catgirl drawn in an exagerated anime style. in this picture she is guffawing with insufferable arrogance, her eyes rolled upwards, mouth stretched open in a sickening way.
a screen capture of the game Esoteric Ebb it's a picture of the titular character, The Cleric, wearing a sallet. the pose and darkness of the picture makes it look like the armored figure is thinking about something, in a melancholic mood.
a picture of my streaming schedule in black and white, and with silly doodles all over "Tuesday 8pm UTC-6: Starting Cryptmaster: Undead dungeon crawling riddles Thursday 6pm UTC-6: Esoteric Ebb: I don't wanna be a cleric of this god anymore Saturday 6pm UTC-6: How to write an essay series: Putting it all together + MY ULTIMATE ESSAY WRITING SECRET TECHNIQUE"
an image of my streaming schedule for this week black and white and gray with silly doodles all over "Tuesday 8pm UTC-6: The end of EDGE: The final levels of Catherine Story mode Thursday 6pm UTC-6: Esoteric Ebb: Being a dungeon master prepared me for this Saturday 6pm UTC-6: How to write an essay series: Research, style and structure"
a libre office presentation slide in which galileo's argument against differing weight impacting falling speeds is quoted from his book Two New Sciences (1638)
A screenshot of the game Catherine. In it, we see an adult manchild with a mop of black hair, staring in total shock at a hinted female at the bottom of the image. They are both implied to be naked and in bed. The man, Vincent, has his jaw opened to a cartoonish, inhuman degree, giving him an uncanny reaction.
an image of my streaming schedule for this week black and white and gray with silly doodles all over "Tuesday 8pm UTC-6: Let's KEEP EDGING: Explaining the myth and occult in Catherine. Thursday 6pm UTC-6: Esoteric Ebb: I don't think this is a fantasy game. Saturday 6pm UTC-6: How to write an essay series: What is an ARGUMENT?"
A screenshot from a review of robocop (1987). Instead of a standard movie review, the author has decided to just distill the mockery implicit in the movie and make it a solid shitpost: "🚨 ATTENTION ALL POLICE OFFICERS 🚨: you are a cuck for corporations and a class traitor. The "crime" you fight is engineered by bourgeoisie pedophiles to increase their profits and keep the proletariat divided. Your ultimate form is a sexless robot that can't even get his dick licked. Your wife will be screaming from getting her back blown out by someone else 2 days after your funeral, and your son will call him "daddy." Reject the system and rejoin the proletariat. Your choices are cuckoldry or communism."
a black and white presentation slide it reads: "Enter Analytic Philosophy Some people say Analytic Philosophy is a meaningless masturbative exercise by the biggest dorks in existence, whose greatest project was shot down by a simple circular argument and who has then devolved into conjectural metaphysics and accomodating theory to fit western liberalism. And they’re mostly right."