nightwing

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by nightwing 7y ago
If we do not talk about usefulness of a resource how would we know if it is worth to study what happens when it is removed? > Taxes? Lower prices? Sounds like someone's not optimizing for the almighty Shareholder Value, citizen Sure
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by nightwing 7y ago
Sure if in the process of using a resource you destroy more important things it is bad. Most of the time using library for heating is a stupid thing, and unfortunately that's a good analogy for what we do with rainforests now. But the
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by nightwing 7y ago
> failure of natural springs this can't happen if aquifer is already under the sea. > land subsidence in this case it will be seafloor subsidence, which will have much smaller impact than land subsidence has. > huge profits to
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by nightwing 7y ago
Do you suggest that leaving it as is until it is destroyed by tectonic plate movement or sun exploding is better than using it to support lives of more people?
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by nightwing 7y ago
Unfortunately guns alone are not enough, china didn't get this way quietly but after a civil war where socialists won. So the future will not be decided by guns but by the portion of people who value freedom, and understand the importa
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by nightwing 7y ago
Trying to make simpler and cheaper planes, not everything has to be about CO2.
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by nightwing 7y ago
I don't understand why some people in US so desperately want to claim the first place in human right violations. Do you believe "Chemical castration for certain child molesters" is comparable to mass injections of huge number
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by nightwing 7y ago
We have had lots of technologies that could make (and made) many species extinct: fire, spears, guns, nets, walls in the right place that helped to trap the whole herd. The difference this time is that we have a technology that can make ext
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by nightwing 7y ago
All pesticides are bad in one way or another, what we need to do is invest more in development of gene drives for elimination of more pests. Doublesex gene used by target malaria is similar in most insects, so the same technique can be used
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by nightwing 7y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I unfortunately didn't manage to formulate my point of view clearly. I am not talking about the pain of losing someone you love, or chronic pain not allowing you to live. (In both of cases here someone
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by nightwing 7y ago
Pretend i am an AI that got access to internet and don't know much about your feelings. "Suffering is suffering" doesn't help me to understand your values and think like you. I have learned to assign positive value to ge
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by nightwing 7y ago
Probably it's the part when i don't like to watch the dying mouse, but if it is mouse that is going to die anyway, what's the point of caring how exactly does it die? Would it suffer because cat plays with it, or because hom
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by nightwing 7y ago
If you can recompute my hand back after that, i'd be happy to put it in whatever box you want, the thing that is valuable to me is the time i still have to live, not the absence of all pain. If i had lots of time, and sufficiently adva
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by nightwing 7y ago
I am probably one of those psychopaths you are talking about. If i saw a mouse in a trap i would set him free, but if he is going to die anyway i don't particularly care if he suffers or not. The logic by which i come to this conclusio
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by nightwing 7y ago
We could use gene drive to eliminate all of them without causing physical pain to any particular one. Maybe not having children will cause psychological pain, but many people seem to chose that on their own, so maybe that's not very b
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by nightwing 7y ago
It is important to have a right to blaspheme against any religion. People have fought hard against Christianity to gain this right and that helped to come to the modern secular state, and modern non-zealous religion when saying that bible i
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by nightwing 7y ago
To think about something i don't use images, i use words. When I want I can imagine how things look and can even draw the simple things, but the process is nothing like seeing, it's more like analytically reconstructing the image
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by nightwing 14y ago
mouse scroll feels backwards, on normal pages one scrolls down to advance, but here one needs to scroll up instead