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by dotsam 5y ago
I am ashamed to say that initially I didn't engage seriously with their reasons, perhaps because I knew it would require behavioural change on my part, which at that time I was unwilling to consider making.
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by dotsam 5y ago
I am pleased to see this shared. > Mance may overstate his case, but he is spot on to make us confront the horrible truth that the vast majority of us are supporting animal suffering every time we shop It took me a long time to understan
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by dotsam 5y ago
Performing your dimensionless computations took time -- that's what I mean. And if you don't perform any computations, how can you derive mathematics?
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by dotsam 5y ago
That's a good distinction, thank you. But how would we have mathematics at all, if we could not compute? How can a statement have any meaning if you cannot 'read' it? Both require time to be intelligible. That is the problem
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by dotsam 5y ago
I'm very likely being the one who is incoherent! My concern is something like this: observing and modelling patterns in the universe can only take place within time. If your models derived from the observed patterns then allow you to m
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by dotsam 5y ago
Thank you, yes, this is where I arrive at. Describing patterns observed from within space-time and ending up modelling a timeless universe seems incoherent to me!
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by dotsam 5y ago
To have the one and the two in the first place grants spatial dimensions, to separate them. Otherwise you end up with a single point, or maybe not even that. I can't get my head around how anyone can generate time (whether an illusion
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by dotsam 5y ago
My brain sputters out when I try to go from timeless relations (which assume spatial dimensionality as a given) to a timeless universe within which I sit with the illusion of time! I can't get my mind around anything that doesn't
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by dotsam 5y ago
My confusion is around the feeling that space and time must be preconditions for numbers and operations. How can you differentiate one number or symbol (or anything) from another without dimensions? It seems to me that you wouldn't be
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by dotsam 5y ago
This reminds me of a confusion I have with theoretical physics and mathematically describing a universe without time. I don’t understand how you could use mathematics - numbers and operations on numbers - to specify a timeless universe, giv
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by dotsam 5y ago
I like the idea of gene editing to remove brain stems, although that still leaves us with the input/output issues (feed, methane etc), which perhaps we can also engineer away. If animal suffering doesn't bother you, does human suf
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by dotsam 5y ago
I hope cellular agriculture will help reduce real meat consumption, and decrease overall suffering. Breeding out the ability to suffer is also desirable. Do you not think that factory farming causes suffering? Causing avoidable suffering se
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by dotsam 5y ago
Victorian factory owners might use a similar argument to support using child labour to make cheap goods which the common man can afford; that doesn't mean that child labour is good.
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by dotsam 5y ago
Is there a quality of life tipping point at which you would rather never have been born? If you were offered a life consisting entirely of pain and suffering, would you accept that? If the quality of life is *not* an issue, we could logical
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by dotsam 5y ago
I think it is useful to distinguish between 'killing an animal for food' and 'rearing billions of animals each year in factories in conditions in which they suffer, and subsequently killing them for food'. Factory farmed
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by dotsam 5y ago
A system that relies on your consent to operate can be modified by withdrawing your consent; if individuals coordinate, systemic change is possible. Gandhi and his non-violent resistance to British rule in India is a good example.
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by dotsam 5y ago
It does feel like an overwhelming task, but individuals can come together and our own actions do matter. We ended slavery: we can create huge positive change.
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A Crash Course in Cellular Agriculture(youtube.com)
1 points by dotsam 5y ago|0 comments
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by dotsam 5y ago
I also love the taste of meat. Do you eat dairy and eggs (and products that contain them), and do you care about whether the animals involved had a good life? My concern is that something as innocuous as, say, a croissant, may contain ingre
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by dotsam 5y ago
Industrial processes that keep animals in unnatural conditions throughout their lives (and cause them suffering), has troubled me more and more: there doesn't seem to be much room for respect there.
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Ask HN: Why Aren't You Vegan?
5 points by dotsam 5y ago|29 comments
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by dotsam 5y ago
As we can't train ourselves *not* to see an optical illusion (even if we know it is an illusion), I think we're also stuck with the experience of free will, even if we conclude it is an illusion. But like illusions, we can use our
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Everything you do is about control(github.com)
2 points by dotsam 6y ago|0 comments
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by dotsam 6y ago
This is a gruesome reminder of the easy-to-overlook practices of industrialised meat and dairy that lie behind many normalised diets and lifestyles today.
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by dotsam 6y ago
People seek power, and God can be thought of as the highest form of power. Religion empowers some people by building a relationship between them and the supreme power of God. It also offers other empowering benefits like community, traditio
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by dotsam 6y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but this reminded me that although Wittgenstein's family was extremely wealthy he gave away the fortune he inherited and become a primary school teacher.
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by dotsam 6y ago
There is an audio recording by L.A. Theatre Works that you can listen to here https://beta.prx.org/stories/43614 and https://beta.prx.org/stories/43844
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by dotsam 6y ago
This was interesting and the site looks like a great resource. I am particularly glad there are transcripts with the videos. The concern for truth and power (metaphysics as imperialism; theories setting the context of what counts as fact; t
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by dotsam 6y ago
She was a sharp thinker, keenly introspective and bold. I would have imagined that she would appeal to the HN audience. Beyond the Second Sex, which has significant status in the history of feminism, her autobiographical Memoirs of a Dutif
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by dotsam 6y ago
There is an audio recording by L.A. Theatre Works https://beta.prx.org/stories/43614 and https://beta.prx.org/stories/43844

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