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by chronofar 3y ago
> The problem is opioids and other hard drugs aren't regulated, they are just made legal. So let's regulate them! (though as someone else pointed out they are indeed currently regulated, just not well) > Human thought when a
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by chronofar 3y ago
> Not sure what the answer is but just waving a wand and making hard drugs legal is not it. Make them actually legal (and thus more safe), tax them heavily, use a portion of said taxation to educate properly and then support and rehabili
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by chronofar 3y ago
> This part is always lost on the "legalize everything" crowd. These types of generalizations are usually built of straw and mud, but I'll go ahead and respond as someone in said crowd with a "no it's not."
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by chronofar 3y ago
> Maybe I was not explaining it clearly enough, but I agreed with this. Similarly to what you said here, I said in the original post that to survive and to reproduce is more of a tautology than a purpose. What I meant is that if there mu
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by chronofar 3y ago
> First of all, thanks for the compelling discussion so far. Likewise thank you for the compelling discussion and clarifications. > To be clear, I don't hold any strong position. All my previous comments are based on the assumpti
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by chronofar 3y ago
I disagree that maximizing the chance for survival is the only ultimate objective function, or that it's somehow the only one that can escape "why is this desirable?" questioning, or that it is even coherent as an objective f
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by chronofar 3y ago
> So, how exactly do we know which is good, which is bad? Is there even an objective good or bad without invoking the idea that some higher beings say so? I’m not sure how “higher beings say so” gets you to objectivity, especially when t
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by chronofar 3y ago
Depends on what your purpose is. Of course text message isn't equivalent to a face to face meeting, nor is a face to face meeting over zoom the same as a face to face in person. If the goal of the communication is specific (need requir
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by chronofar 3y ago
> Can you be more specific? "Public channels for team comms" -> they explicitly addressed that ("frustrated grumbling"). "Frustrated grumbling" goes to the tight feedback loops, make sure juniors aren&#x2
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by chronofar 3y ago
> I don't have all my juniors around me, so I can't overhear their conversations, so I can't jump in when they talk themselves into trouble. I can't help people debug problems I'm not aware of, and frustrated gru
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by chronofar 3y ago
You can avoid quite a bit of OOP with Kotlin if you like, and with Arrow make some really nice functional code. Imo it offers a great balance of imperative vs functional, providing powerful tools for whatever style suits the project best.
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by chronofar 3y ago
> The science can speak for itself. Well you’d think so, but here we are with different views about what is a reasonable position on what it says. You’re continuing to straw man things here, we may just be at an impasse. > Science isn
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by chronofar 3y ago
> It's a good thing that isn't the argument I made, then. Well it could perhaps be accused of being a reductive summary, but surely you see how it could have come off like that? > The vaccine was tested. It's safe. No,
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by chronofar 3y ago
“If you don’t believe what I believe, you listened to cranks” isn’t a terribly compelling argument. They went through the same process yes. That does not make taking a brand new COVID vaccine in the height of a hyper-politicized pandemic th
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by chronofar 3y ago
> I personally get really anxious when I'm "wasting" time One could argue that this is the problem. Not that you spend your time doing activities others wouldn't consider leisurely, but that you feel compelled to beca
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by chronofar 3y ago
Whether that’s true or false changes virtually nothing about this article or our understanding of anything in the universe.
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by chronofar 4y ago
Only if you presume systems that display one must display the other, which I think is far from a given in systems that aren't comprised of neurons, or in other words systems that don't look/work like us (which is the only pat
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by chronofar 4y ago
You’re throwing a lot of assumptions in there that I would be quite careful about holding “firmly.” I’m not convinced we have any idea whether long term memory is required for sentience, I’d suspect not (are amnesiacs not sentient?), nor th
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by chronofar 4y ago
> everyone arguing about brains and the universe is trying to justify something like the Consequence Argument That hasn't been my experience at all, usually I see claims about the brains and universe being made from epistemic ground
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by chronofar 4y ago
> It matters quite a bit I think, because otherwise it's an impediment to communication. It sounds like we agree on the problem but disagree on the solution. I would argue most of the impediment to communication on this subject is e
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by chronofar 4y ago
This seems to me like more of the same talking past this subject is rife with. I didn't purport to frame any such definition as "first," the context of my reply was referring specifically to a Dennett rebuttal to a Harris ess
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by chronofar 4y ago
> Deciding that one's life is all about luck is a miserable way to live. It means one has no agency, no choice, no way to make one's life better. Because it's all luck, that means there is no point in trying. The outcome o
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by chronofar 4y ago
They didn't make an excuse for lack of impulse control at all, they simply claimed responsibility for the action while not taking responsibility for the thought, which is a perfectly reasonable, rational, and adaptive perspective.
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by chronofar 4y ago
> So what? The fact is that the "free will" you appear to want to talk about does not and cannot exist, whereas the "free will" Dennett is talking about does exist and has important real-world consequences. So, to be
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by chronofar 4y ago
This is the most common advice around these parts, but it seems woefully misguided to me. The “only good answer” if there is just the one is that you should use whatever fits the requirements. If those requirements involve you getting to ma
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by chronofar 4y ago
Aside from the newly introduced Fleet the other commenter pointed out, Jetbrains' IDEA Ultimate can include all the functionality of all the individual niche products (via plugins), so you could just use a single Jetbrains IDE for most
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by chronofar 4y ago
Do you have some models you're looking at that cause you to believe with such certainty that this is what the future holds? I have not seen, nor can I even really fathom, a scenario in which declining birth rates leads in of itself to
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by chronofar 4y ago
Hasn’t it? There is considerably more infrastructure for the elderly today than a couple of generations ago. Communities where folks can maintain a bit of independence with caregivers and peers in the neighborhood seems like a nearly ideal
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by chronofar 4y ago
> The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids. You deal with it, then the kids grow up quicker than you think. Don't let the idea of the first few months/years define your entire
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by chronofar 4y ago
Again, this is a very fixable problem, and society will be the better for it by learning to adapt better rather than just throwing more kids at the problem. Kids do not owe their parents anything, including geriatric care.

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