mooselaker

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   by mooselaker 4y ago

   Opportunity cost to an extent: instead of convincing them into becoming paying customers, and having them word-of-mouth promote you, they slip away to a competing service, which they may also indeed decide to pay for.
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   by mooselaker 4y ago

   I think the most steelman version is that he argues efficient software does in fact provide value to users. Whether or not they know it. And perhaps not always in terms of the application they have running right in front of them, but at
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   by mooselaker 4y ago

   Interesting angle, that free will has a quantity. I can certainly see an argument that a more intelligent being has more freedom -- because it has more options available -- so perhaps also more free will.
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   by mooselaker 4y ago

   To be precise, the study demonstrated that the decision is registered before the person is able to report having decided. In other words, the oversight of consciousness is simply delayed. This seems perfectly reasonable: the brain is mech
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   by mooselaker 4y ago

   It doesn't fly like a duck, that's the point. It flies like a cyberduck with a rocket pack. Cyclists who behave badly are cyclists. People riding vehicles with motors that let them go that fast simply aren't cyclists. We don&
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   by mooselaker 4y ago

   It literally says at multiple points throughout "this is not dogma", including the entire final section.