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by tossacct 14y ago
Agreed! I think most of us are sitting on those great shoulders as opposed to standing, but that's semantics for you. To clarify, I think it speaks positively to Notch's character when he says that Infiniminer was the game he wanted to mak
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>I think that once you're 1.5-2.0 sigma, in capability, above the social position that's available to you, your goose is cooked because it's hard to condescend in the right way and, once the discrepancy is vast enough, it beco
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by tossacct 14y ago
I have nothing against Notch, Mojang, or Minecraft, but I have to mention Infiniminer, an earlier fpb(first person block) style game that I wish hadn't been cracked and then maliciously destroyed, and then abandoned by Zachary Barth. >&
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by tossacct 14y ago
I agree with your statement in reference to relative differences between cultures: "there is no way to measure such a thing." I was wondering if you could expand on this part of your comment: >>>I'm not the one making outrageous
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>I don't believe that everyone derives benefit equivalent to the cost (both to themselves, and the public cost) of college tuition The "everyone" that you are referring to consists of the vast majority of university majors, wh
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by tossacct 14y ago
It operates at a loss of $7B, but that $7B is buying at least one thing: people traveling underground instead of aboveground. Does this reduce congestion, traffic, or pollution? Maybe it allows for increased density or more sensible housin
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Superior Orders(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tossacct 14y ago
Your comment is correct, but it is incomplete and avoids the real issue with "actually changing things". "Actually changing things" may involve "criticizing congress" but I expect it to be rather more complicated. I think that all of the p
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>why be so cavalier with the idea of making victims relive that horror against their mature, expressed consent? Vacri: your comment seems reasonable and educated so I assume that you know the answer to your own question. I'm
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by tossacct 14y ago
Taxi laws are different in different places. Many places you have the option of calling a taxi company, and they are legally required to send you a cab. Obviously not NY. Your "zone" idea is logical. So logical that it is the law in some
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>even if it stole all the customers of a current one Many taxi companies are required to serve anyone at any time(24/7/365) for fixed prices, regardless of the cost of the trip. It is unlikely that the new transit service wil
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by tossacct 14y ago
That's a fair point, I misunderstood the word "to police" your initial post. Unfortunately, the system is already supposed to work like this, yet the problem remains unsolved. I have friends that are teachers that make constant calls to po
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>Why is this problem so difficult to fix, at least within the school environment? Schools are a relatively confined space and should be quite easy to police. People who want to commit violence can use all means physically avai
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by tossacct 14y ago
Theoretically, we might only recognize about half of those contradictors at any one time. If these theoretical contradictors are evenly distributed, spherical, and massless, then it seems natural that around 50% will be busy contradicting
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by tossacct 14y ago
I think that we can agree that any reasonable audience acting in good faith SHOULD understand, but I think we can also agree that most audiences are not made up of reasonable people acting in good faith, which likely predisposes failure
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by tossacct 14y ago
This post isn't as long as it looks, only the first half is about our discussion. The part of this post that directly relates to our discussion is (only?) 300 words. In those 300 words I will agree with your latest post, then show why I d
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by tossacct 14y ago
Well now you've jumped off the boat into the frothy water, just like you said you wouldn't ;). Let me get us back in the boat. I agree that the definition of the concept of emergence is that there is no objective. No one even vaguely
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by tossacct 14y ago
I think that you are right that there are some people that will not become happier or more healthy if they got more money. More money does mean "distinguishment" to them. I think we could describe American upper and middle class people
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by tossacct 14y ago
I'm responding to your philosophical ideas about emergence, I don't intend on making any philosophical points here, only responding to the ones that you made. You disagreed with the idea that society can have objectives based on philosophi
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by tossacct 14y ago
If you had simply stated that you didn't believe in the concept of "objectives", instead of singling out my precious emergent systems, there would be no rabbit holes to run down. :) Also is 1 thing that has an objective too much to ask
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by tossacct 14y ago
Yes, because the concept of an "objective" is very useful when trying to describe emergence. A semi-related question: If no emergent systems have "objectives", then what things do have "objectives"?
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by tossacct 14y ago
>>>Emergent phenomena don't have "objectives", mate. What makes you say that, mate? Are intelligence and consciousness emergent phenomena?
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by tossacct 14y ago
I think we agree that the euphemism treadmill(ET) exists, and that (ET) means that our words constantly change meaning. Your original post used it as a reason not to coin a new word: >>>It doesn't matter what you call it - not
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by tossacct 14y ago
Regarding the "euphemism treadmill": sometimes it is necessary to coin a new euphemism. For example, if the common usage of a word is different from its original meaning. "Homosexual" was the name of a psychological disorder, "moron", "re
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by tossacct 14y ago
The service exists, and presumably is profitable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_expenses_insurance To address your comment in detail: 1)>>>In short, people would take out the insurance right before they commit a crime so
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by tossacct 14y ago
"Marijuana" is not illegal. It is illegal to do certain things with marijuana. Possession is one of those things. Growing, distributing, selling, processing, all fall under the category of possession. It is not illegal to write about mari
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by tossacct 14y ago
The concept of "rationality" applies to all reasoning that a human does. It is not constrained to one specific activity or another (sexual or employment or regulation). Wikipedia>>>The "rationality" described by rational choice
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by tossacct 14y ago
If he were harmed, why would he choose to accept my offer? The concept that you are describing is "rationality". If you do some light reading, you will find that reasonable people disagree that any human possesses or can possess it, espe
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by tossacct 14y ago
An assumption: code is designed [to get things done]. Another assumption: the [thing to get done] will likely eventually be transformed via evolution or destroyed, as all natural things like rocks and species and hydrogen atoms and gluons a
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by tossacct 14y ago
What weapons do you think people will use once all of the guns are gone? Maybe something less deadly, maybe something far far more deadly. The mass-killers are the issue, not the tools that they use. Effective mental health treatment is a

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