morlockabove

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by morlockabove 6y ago
Are sex toys alone actually fulfilling to most people? Given the number of people on thw internet complaining about misery from sexual loneliness, it clearly isn't enough. Sex toys, porn, and enculturing cowardice stave off the war, I
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by morlockabove 6y ago
If we all worked on things as important as curing cancer, we could build god and live happily forever. Whichever generation manages this will 'win'. (Or they build a paperclipper and ruin the lightcone.)
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by morlockabove 6y ago
If you dump industrial amounts of salt in the ocean, it kills sealife in the immediate area.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
That, and for redundancy. I've heard it's designed so that even if a significant number of engines malfunction, others can be used to compensate.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Presumably you want every country to be developed. So what happens when every country in the world has a shrinking population?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
It was desirable economically to the upper classes. It was, obviously, bad for workers (two-income trap). The only way it would be a net economic positive for them would be through their share of gains to the overall economy... but we kn
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by morlockabove 6y ago
After this year, I've had more than enough of 'solidarity'.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Yeah, shutting yourself in a padded room isn't a good strategy to maximise your quality-adjusted life years. I think you could make a case for spending a significant amount of time looking into the science of aging/senescence and
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense that the fragility, lack of armor (fur/thick skin) or claws etc. Came after tools made them redundant, like how our bowels are shorter than apes' because they atrophied after the invention of cook
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I would contend that there's a great amount of collateral damage, and that 'toxic assholes' are those least (genuinely) susceptible to social pressure.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
>What good is it to live a trillion trillion years just to freeze to death while starving? It's 10 billion trillion times better than living 100 years and then dying while hacking your lungs out delirious in a hosipital bed covered
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I think one problem is that wanting to not die seems fucking logical. No less logical than any other want, anyway. If you don't have to justify pullimg your hand out of a fire, I think you don't have to justify an aversion to no
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by morlockabove 6y ago
You don't want to die from something as stupid as aging. Fair enough. Neither do I. Lots of people advocate trying to make peace, or ignore the train running down to where you're tied on the tracks. Might have been the best mov
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I would say that 'aware' is rhetorically the same as 'terrified', and 'rational' just means 'act optimally', so it's implied.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
What do I care? The games exist, the proof is in the pudding.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I would say the nethack dev team/community institution is a lot more valuable to me than any for-profit dev corporation dev team/ community institution, in a qualitatively different way. Company makes a nice game, cool, fine. Op
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Not being in perpetual fear of society breaking down seems like a good way to see society break down. What else motivated millenia of sacrifice?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Physics for 5-year olds. "Da bloobley-fly gets FWOOSHED back by da wadiation pwessuwe fwom da instawation" There's an article I would read- 'physics as explained by my toddler'.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Librem 5, pinephone
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Most things are bad by default.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Nethack, DCSS, Cataclysm: dark days ahead and co. show that FOSS games can do very well.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I'm saying you're taking as if it were some sort of ontological model or normative rule of discourse, when really it's a verbalisation of a heuristic you've already admitted to using. You're using something like &#
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by morlockabove 6y ago
'Getting the measures right' would require some mix of unity (which doesn't exist in modern multicultural countries) and/or a strong authoritarian government. If, for some reason, you like not having indigenous racial mi
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by morlockabove 6y ago
You're acting based on your priors and new evidence. You have a high prior for police stops existing in general, and a low one for people randomly lying about it, so a stranger saying there's one that way is compelling evidence t
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Given the rates, though, it basically seems worth the risk if the alternative is to lose a year of say, your 20's. You have to weigh up the expectation costs in quality-adjusted life years, with associated error bars.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
PC users, wheat from chaff Hoist up roger high and laugh! Never more than ten bucks pay, for Same damn game as yesterday
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Sounds like a fully general counterargument
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by morlockabove 6y ago
technicality
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by morlockabove 6y ago
In good shape? When half the population of the western world is obese, and 10% are diabetic? How many people, on average, were on the brink of starvation 200 years ago? We're still better off, I'd guess, but it's not that a
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by morlockabove 6y ago
The 'conspiracy', i.e. the organised group, is the media coupled with a grassroots authoritarian ideology that pays it to keep reporting as 'pleases' it. Just lots of individuals and institutions acting according to the

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