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by snet0 5y ago
I absolutely agree, I don't think solving this problem is something that can really be considered. I do think it's a problem, though. I think you're taking my analogy of tickets too far, though. It was simply to highlight the
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by snet0 5y ago
I think this is a disingenuous comparison. Builders get paid to build houses. Authors, to my knowledge, do not frequently get paid to write books, they get paid when they sell books. When you resell a house, you are not denying the buil
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by snet0 5y ago
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but my assumption is that buying second-hand books gives no money to the author. I don't know, morally speaking if this should be the case. It does feel wrong for people to get the experience without payin
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by snet0 5y ago
Worlds don't have to have rules. That's just how ours is.
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by snet0 5y ago
Of course, once you get to the second, we are now just measuring something, and our unit is based on counting a thing. But how do you measure something that can't be counted?
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by snet0 5y ago
It's defined in terms of other units .
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by snet0 5y ago
The problem there is that subject well-being is time-variant. Of course when I ask you at 3 week intervals "how are you feeling?", I'm going to get different answers. If I ask you 3 seconds apart, though (ignoring you getting
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by snet0 5y ago
It is whatever the scale decides it is. A unit of mass isn't anything, either, unless you decide to use Planck units. But we have myriad units of emergent phenomena. This is just on a higher level of abstraction, and so it is harder, b
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by snet0 5y ago
Calling happiness subjective feels weird to me. It's not like "How would you rate The Avengers?", I think asking "How would you rate how you feel at this moment?" is asking the subject to measure something objective
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by snet0 5y ago
Can you expand on how you think this is the case? Looking at the brain to find out what people think seems to me like looking at atoms to see how an engine works.
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by snet0 5y ago
This is simply conflating terms, though. If your field re-defines a commonly used term to mean something very precise, obviously you're going to encounter problems when you try work backwards. "Tree" in the meaning of "s
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by snet0 5y ago
I consider myself somewhat sympathetic to the view being put forward, but this is just lazy writing. > How does one measure happiness? Psychologists can’t use a ruler or a microscope, so they invent an arbitrary scale. All scales are arb
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by snet0 5y ago
I think mentioning "well if the lock's too hard they'll just break the window" is missing a point: locks right now are just too easy . Destructive bypasses to locks, or even just cutting the lock into pieces, are probab
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by snet0 5y ago
I think this is kind of central to what a perfect lock would be. The only non-authorised access should be destructive.
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by snet0 5y ago
I'm curious: do people expect mechanical locks such as these to continue being used in the future? 20 years? 50 years? I'm kind of imagining that at some point, someone will "solve" locks, and create a physical equivalen
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by snet0 6y ago
I think collecting in general seems to be a fairly "normal" human behaviour. I imagine (with neither education nor research) that many pre-historic people's prized collections of fruit pits or animal teeth didn't stand t
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by snet0 6y ago
This is one of those things that is kind of weird until it's totally obvious and you feel dumb for having thought any other way. It was almost revelatory for me when I realised that ancient people were just people from a long time ago.
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by snet0 6y ago
Something I never really thought about until now is that I tend to feel okay with pirating "classics", or books by authors who have since died. At first, I felt like this was probably fine, since it's almost rent-collecting f
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by snet0 6y ago
I think that's almost certainly the case for the people actually cracking the software, but because a lot of the time there isn't like a "Steam Store for Cracked Videogames" or similar for software, it can require signif
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by snet0 6y ago
Feels a bit like an exception proving the rule. If everyone is pointing to the same individual example that a rule doesn't hold, the rule probably holds for almost all cases.
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by snet0 6y ago
Yes, just like how children regularly eat kitchen knives.
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by snet0 6y ago
The original commenter being replied to wrote "that this world has ever seen".
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by snet0 6y ago
Is every post-release edit to an article another death knell for free speech?
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by snet0 6y ago
So can you allocate more memory than what is available in this way?
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by snet0 6y ago
How can a question be wrong?
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by snet0 6y ago
Should we "check our priors at the door", though? When neutrinos were "observed" to travel faster than light, the most appropriate conclusion wasn't "well I guess we were fundamentally wrong about just about ev
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by snet0 6y ago
In lieu of just linking to studies, I'll link to a great Slatestar Codex post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
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by snet0 6y ago
Have you looked at the research in this area or are you just winging it?
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by snet0 6y ago
As someone with quite a few AHK hotstrings, and who does almost all of their day-to-day in Windows, what's the selling point for this software vs AHK? Looks like a great and useful piece of software, but is there a reason to prefer thi
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by snet0 6y ago
"But what if we vent the toxic gas into the place where you go to see if there's a problem with the toxic gas..."

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