ndarray

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by ndarray 5d ago
> The situation described in The Egg replaces morality with a direct reason not to harm others, because you are the person who will suffer because of it. Or you've already been said person, in which case it won't harm you anymo
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by ndarray 5d ago
Re 1, why? Re 2, yes and in 300 BC you're also expected to already have been 50% alive there. Your egg can't explain consciousness or the arrow of time either. How is the person in egg limbo, the fetus being developed I mean, cons
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by ndarray 6d ago
I probably should have phrased it "do you have a moral right to self-harm"? The starting point is usually that you're allowed to do anything you want, total freedom, and then we blacklist everything we deem immoral. You don&#
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by ndarray 6d ago
Assuming the premise of the short story is true, of course. Otherwise, what's the point. I can't simultaneously grant the premise and pretend that I didn't just grant it, by denying my knowledge of the rebirth mechanism.
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by ndarray 6d ago
Engage in the thought experiment that you are/were/will be every human for a sec. Is self-harm morally ok? Many would say yes. So "the egg" already gives those people a pass to hurt everyone else in this world because it
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by ndarray 16d ago
You live on Mars?
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by ndarray 17d ago
Seriously though, for 2k you can get a good gaming PC even in today's market.
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by ndarray 17d ago
Would probably push the engineers to deliver three-way foldables like the Huawei Mate XT from two years ago. The two-way folding phones are wasting a screen and will go down in history as an abomination. The weird 1:1.4 width:height ratio w
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by ndarray 17d ago
Sounds like a complex question. On average you'll visit like 1.5 sites. Those SQL queries are peanuts compared to an LLM burning through tokens. Besides, for hard questions, the LLM itself might download 30-60 websites to find the info
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by ndarray 18d ago
Do you want to know how many identical questions ChatGPT gets asked every week, recomputing its answer each time because people stopped sharing results? I don't, but I'm sure it far exceeds 3 billion. "How to center a div&quo
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by ndarray 18d ago
even the whataboutism is slop
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by ndarray 2mo ago
"Show don't tell" has been a disaster for mankind. I'm sick of authors turning every scene (especially openings) into a puzzle because just telling the reader what's going on would be too low-brow for them. If telli
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by ndarray 2mo ago
The notes only make sense with context. I'm not interested in copying three or so sentences for every small comment or even just a highlight.
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by ndarray 2mo ago
No, but let's keep pouring billions into confirming that the laws of physics apply outside of our solar system - smaller objects orbiting larger ones? Who could have guessed? I'm sympathetic to space colonization, which seems like
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by ndarray 2mo ago
If that is true, it's bad design. The site definitely needs a dislike button too, while we're at it...
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by ndarray 2mo ago
This is basically an ad for recent books the maker likes or gets paid to promote and the selection is hot garbage
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by ndarray 3mo ago
Let's just as enthusiastically revote on the chat control law right now then! Oh, wait... revotes only happen when the bureaucrats/lobbyists want them
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by ndarray 5mo ago
Great, and I do agree, we know who to pay more (and who less), but how do we get there democratically? Should we vote for the party that says "we support LGBT and an infinite influx of cheap labor" or the "we support the mili
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by ndarray 5mo ago
I'm sure there are many systemic issues but the primary victims are the elders. For starters, they don't have a choice but to be there.
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by ndarray 5mo ago
There's a long period between beginning and full, diagnosed dementia. You won't be able to tell what you're signing but you won't be protected by a dementia diagnosis either.
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by ndarray 5mo ago
Shoulder pain? Sorry, but your insurance only covers suicide. Dementia? Every day you don't agree to end your life, your caretakers will take it personally.
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by ndarray 5mo ago
This framing is ridiculous. Elder abuse and neglect is rampant. Nursing homes are run like prisons and you're empathizing with the guards.
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by ndarray 6mo ago
Not only that but a lot of the "defining games" are just games that appeared at about the same time but can be handled by much older GPUs without issues. For me graphics haven't made a real difference since Unreal Engine 4 an
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by ndarray 6mo ago
At least Germany isn't looking at entering any wars at the moment...
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by ndarray 6mo ago
Ten years of "refugees welcome" to fighting age men who we don't trust won't run amok when we go to war with a third party. Very cool.
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by ndarray 7mo ago
translation: cancer
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by ndarray 7mo ago
They're clearly not that optimized when the user ends up complaining publicly. Don't tell others what they're supposed to like because some algo said so. Very cringe.
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by ndarray 7mo ago
I think it would be too depressing to have all these ghost towns and stuff - how would you explain that to your kids? That they're robot towns? Unaliving 50-80% under tragic circumstances like plagues and wars on the other hand... And
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by ndarray 7mo ago
That's where "being able to defend your resources" comes in, otherwise they're not rich. But yes, I'm implying that in the future the defense could be done by something like armed drones. And "defense" wou
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by ndarray 7mo ago
Being rich is ultimately about owning and being able to defend resources. IF something like 99% of humans become irrelevant to the machine run utopia for the elites, whatever currency the poors use to pay for services among each other will

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