NateEag

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by NateEag 4y ago
If the grandparent post is your idea of "forcing opinions on others," how do you justify your much-more-forceful, judgmental response?
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by NateEag 4y ago
> Curious on how maggots and leeches may overlap with their medical uses? I think very little. I have no relevant expertise, but I think maggots are used mainly because they eat dead flesh - good for cleaning out necrotic wounds. IIRC, l
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by NateEag 4y ago
I think only at the level that in the books Narnia is reached from our world via magical portals, so it's a reasonable reference to make when discussing portals.
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by NateEag 4y ago
Statements like "you are wrong" indicate more confidence to me than statements like "I believe." I may well be wrong about the book's nature. My assessment was based on the Wiki article you linked and my study of mo
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by NateEag 4y ago
In my limited experience, proponents of scientific morality don't seem to know about or grant David Hume's is/ought duality. I'm still not entirely sure what I think of it, but it's certainly something anyone with a
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by NateEag 4y ago
I tend to be skeptical of new tech, but I started grinning watching the video. I am far more entertained by and interested in these than I expected to be. Maybe that's because I used to commute by train, and these seem perfect for shor
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by NateEag 4y ago
Let's try the more charitable "unjustified certitude" instead of "lie".
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by NateEag 4y ago
I haven't read it, but I believe that book addresses how certain behaviors may have evolved. That is unrelated to whether those behaviors are in an abstract sense "right" or "good".
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by NateEag 4y ago
Naturalism insists that anything which is supernatural cannot be scientifically investigated, by definition. If you want to live your life via the scientific method, awesome - it's a really powerful technique for refining the accuracy
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by NateEag 4y ago
> The choice in porn (especially pictures) is blurry. We already have egirls and hent#i. Porn is an early form of "opting out of reality". It's often (usually, I think?) a substitute for actually having sex and/or a l
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by NateEag 4y ago
Should be quite a lot, evolutionarily speaking. Being a horrible manipulative jerk seems like a great reproduction strategy to me. On average women will see through you and won't give you the time of day. Some will fall for your terrib
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by NateEag 4y ago
In my early teens a friend harassed me constantly (but gently) about my constantly disheveled hair. Thanks to him I finally started combing it regularly.
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by NateEag 4y ago
FWIW, the webcam and fingerprint scanners on my 12th gen Framework functioned out of the box on NixOS. I have yet to get the camera color balance working remotely well in artificial lighting, though.
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by NateEag 4y ago
If you're open to it, I'd love to hear more details and context around these stories. Email is my profile, if you have the time and inclination to get in touch.
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by NateEag 4y ago
> despite a total collapse of my childhood evangelical Christian beliefs I should perhaps clarify that while I had the total collapse and found myself staring nihilism in the face, I currently am drifting towards a very heretical, Bible-
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by NateEag 4y ago
Not OP, but I can identify with mystical experiences like what's hinted at in that post. I don't have any experiences I would call "verifiably paranormal", but I've had a few I've not been able to fully account
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by NateEag 4y ago
I haven't used lots of videoconference tools, but Zoom has a killer feature I haven't seen elsewhere: The ability to put camera feeds on one screen and screenshare on another. If you're using a laptop's built-in webcam,
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by NateEag 4y ago
My point was about the self-contained systems, not the rest of the universe around them.
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by NateEag 4y ago
> If you have two systems that are implemented in different ways but the output is indistinguishable I feel that you're forced to claim that the systems operate in fundamentally similar ways. So a nuclear power plant and a solar pan
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by NateEag 4y ago
The closest thing I know to an actual source for this is the StackOverflow developer survey. 2022 edition says 74% of respondents use VSCode regularly, 23% use Vim regularly, and 4% use Emacs regularly. https://survey.stackoverfl
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by NateEag 4y ago
I was raised a lit and music nerd, then staggered into CS in college because it was a creative discipline that could pay bills. Twenty years down the pike I've gotten pretty solid at programming, certainly not genius-level but competen
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by NateEag 4y ago
what's the most difficult art project you've produced? Comparing these is very "apples and oranges", but I think you'd better have a strong background in both if you're gonna try.
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by NateEag 4y ago
And since you don't know if they matter, you should not presume that they don't.
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by NateEag 4y ago
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle." If the nightmare scenario is true, there would finally be a counterexample to this.
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by NateEag 4y ago
It only looks rational if you think you can get away with it. People considering it at all are at least somewhat likely to think they can. Similarly, inside the utilitarian mode of reasoning, it's only a mistake if you get caught.
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by NateEag 4y ago
I'm an American citizen, and ever since I learned about the Boston Massacre in high school I've thought the British troops were unjustly maligned. Of course, I also don't think the Revolution was a morally-justified war, so I
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by NateEag 4y ago
A utilitarian effective altruist absolutely should defraud anyone not already on their team. They precommit to others who are in on the take that 90% of the profit will go to the Cause, and then all that excess that was gonna be wasted on
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by NateEag 4y ago
The issue is that he wasn't actually doing that. He was having an entirely understandable emotional reaction to the idea that his beloved mentor might have raped someone, and leapt to Minsky's defense. What he did, though, was not
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by NateEag 4y ago
I didn't say it was good to focus on it, just that obviously people are going to. If someone wants to communicate a particular point, it's wise for them to eliminate the rabbit trails and distractions from what they say. It&#x27
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by NateEag 4y ago
A side distraction that RMS chose to put there, and a side distraction that is poorly reasoned and badly communicated. Of course people are focused on it.

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