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by nefitty 5y ago
Sentience is more akin to the preference to avoid pain. Intelligence plays a role in the expression of sentience, but it is ultimately more akin to an ability rather than a preference trait as sentience is.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I do. I would like to know what you think. My understanding of the mechanism is probably oversimplified.
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by nefitty 5y ago
"Allow" implies some sort of consent. I understand that you mean in an evolutionary sense, but it's clear that most living beings are averse to dying, even when possessing the most biologically primitive nervous systems. I pr
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by nefitty 5y ago
It's not a novel idea. Isn't it just a fatalistic coloring of ethical relativism? I personally subscribe to the idea that moral truths can be discovered from principals we can derive on inspecting our own preferences and experienc
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by nefitty 5y ago
I don't know if there's a word for it besides the adjacent "speciesm" but the clumsy word "desentientize" popped up in my head as an ethical corollary to "dehumanization".
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by nefitty 5y ago
There are definitely people in situations where the burden of a vegan or vegetarian diet would cause much more harm to them personally than the harm an omnivore diet would cause. I don't blame people for the uncontrollable, and I don&#
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by nefitty 5y ago
Sliding into this subthread, this explanation you just gave of where you are is why I commended you upthread. I recognize your embrace of your own self-awareness and moral openness. I like people like that.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Yes, excellently stated. That's precisely my original point. I intended to preemptively disarm the conversational decay that absolutes cause. I think there is a place for that, for example art or activism, but when speaking directly to
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by nefitty 5y ago
I understand where you're coming from. I assume you believe one bad thing is preferable to two bad things. It's the trap I was warning against. Degrees instead of absolutes. Personally, I am vegetarian due to ethical concerns, not
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by nefitty 5y ago
Sentience is a matter of degree. That's why people can compare the intelligence of a chimpanzee to the intelligence of a three year old human. Or why it's intuitive to prefer saving the life of a human to saving the life of a fish
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by nefitty 5y ago
Animals yes. Plants? I eat them without guilt. I wouldn't eat insects, not only because of my conditioned disgust, but now even moreso because crustaceans were found to be capable of suffering based on an 8-point scale. Bugs and crabs
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by nefitty 5y ago
I mean specifically octopods, considering this is the first farm. It means someone really went out of their way to get past historical momentum to be the first to create this process. The worst part is that it will be easily replicable. Tha
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by nefitty 5y ago
I commend you for your decision. I want to add that framing my ideas about animal suffering in an elastic way makes it easier for me to make incremental changes. An animal is either alive or dead. Maybe eating vegetarian once a week will sa
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by nefitty 5y ago
> Last year, researchers at the London School of Economics concluded from a review of 300 scientific studies that octopus were sentient beings capable of experiencing distress and happiness, and that high-welfare farming would be impossi
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by nefitty 5y ago
Apologies if the post comes off sensationalist. I am not currently actively taking these steps as I don't perceive a significant threat. That's as a lay person. Having said that, it may be helpful to have something in mind if the
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Preparedness Tips for Nuclear Explosions(ready.gov)
2 points by nefitty 5y ago|1 comments
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by nefitty 5y ago
Additional convo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462223
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by nefitty 5y ago
I just saw this article saying that shelling may have hit a repository. https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-chernobyl-russia-invasion...
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Russian shelling hit a radioactive waste repository at Chernobyl(apnews.com)
7 points by nefitty 5y ago|4 comments
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by nefitty 5y ago
This is a helpful comment, thank you. Prioritizing sociological factors in the design of educational systems seems common, but balancing the differences within an educational population with policy requirements makes it so that only some st
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by nefitty 5y ago
This is a great article. The implementable points are laid bare without fluff. To add to the article from my personal research, one of the most powerful activities I've implemented thus far in my intellectual and work life are reflecti
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by nefitty 5y ago
This is concise and yet hugely inspiring. I love seeing people and their companies publicly committing to their ideals. Software engineering is ripe for further movement toward self-awareness. This industry is one of the most powerful parts
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by nefitty 5y ago
Yeah, that seems close. The main difference would be that it would be a co-evolutionary sandbox instead of zero sum.
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by nefitty 5y ago
One of my current heuristics is the expression of weirdness. I can see it in the way I write, there's like this thread of a human processing information through emotional and idiosyncratic experiences. There's a certain cadence to
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by nefitty 5y ago
Yeah, you're definitely right. If I was in that situation, I think I would be up front about the nature of the work and offer a "sanitized" textual walkthrough of the project. Let people decide if they want to risk being offe
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by nefitty 5y ago
Seriously. All he had to do was make a SFW version for his resume if he was so keen on showing off the work. Use pictures of smurfs and puppies. I might unfairly be making assumptions about how technically feasible the change would be. If i
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by nefitty 5y ago
That is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. I've been a super-bat person or whatever since I was a little kid. I feel the most alive at night. I am also happily married. I have IRL best friends. I talk to my mom every day.
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Antidepressants are beneficial in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (2018)(academic.oup.com)
3 points by nefitty 5y ago|0 comments
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by nefitty 5y ago
Wow. I almost skipped all the book recs as is usual for me with UX and design stuff, but you totally sold me on this one.
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by nefitty 5y ago
A first step could be a large survey of people who have found themselves on both sides of the equation recently. Hiring seems opaque to me. I sometimes don't even get feedback on why I was passed up for a role that I match perfectly (I

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