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811.
by vacuity 3y ago
We will cease to be "humans" as we are now. It's weird to talk about consciousness as a being who is conscious but can't explain how, but the fact that I have the capacity and disposition for moral deliberation drives me
812.
by vacuity 3y ago
> To seriously hold that all of what you have known was created for your experience I don't think there's a solpsistic component to the idea that we have our own subjective realities. For one thing, it's about as true as w
813.
by vacuity 3y ago
The return of the lizard people is imminent...
814.
by vacuity 3y ago
You weren't wrong with the "GRAPHIC" warning. Abortion clinics should find better ways of carrying out abortions, to ensure minimal pain and, if possible, the gruesomeness. I'm not persuaded towards pro-life by the image
815.
by vacuity 3y ago
I've heard a professor describe high school the same way. We throw a bunch of hormonal, identity-discovering, stressed teenagers together and then wonder why incidents happen.
816.
by vacuity 3y ago
Evaluate on a case-by-case basis.
817.
by vacuity 3y ago
It's at times like these that I wish we could somehow evolve past our fragile psychology soon. There's only so much theory that can overcome human limitations. I do think everyone should have a platform online, but there would be
818.
by vacuity 3y ago
This gets thorny when you delve into the metaethics. Basically, why is murder considered immoral and should be punished (or at least addressed)? Well, is abortion murder? If it is, then opposing abortions is the right thing to do. Personall
819.
by vacuity 3y ago
I think this is a filter bubble situation, because policymakers in certain states don't seem to be pro-life so much as anti-women's rights. And if policymakers are like that, a good portion of the populace either agrees or doesn&#
820.
by vacuity 3y ago
I can't speak on whether you're right, but there is genuinely a component where public schooling can't lump everyone together and expect things to work out. In high school, I knew someone who spread vicious rumors and made re
821.
by vacuity 3y ago
What do you mean by the computations part? > Heck, throw in computations on there too, why compute things that have already been computed?
822.
by vacuity 3y ago
I feel like you are trying too hard to make everything look uniform in the filesystem, at the expense of performance, expressivity, and whatnot. The whole point of having programs and applications is that they can do their stuff with arbitr
823.
by vacuity 3y ago
Ah, that's fair. I doubt most applications need that level of optimization, and AOT still seems to be more reliable overall for performance. A language with GC and/or VM does have great properties, though, so for most apps it&#x27
824.
by vacuity 3y ago
I think parent means something more like "I've faced these problems in the past so I can relate to you" instead of dumping current problems. I guess there is an awkward area where the parent has serious current problems becau
825.
by vacuity 3y ago
Microsoft and Firefox have cited around 70% memory bugs, and they probably have tooling and whatnot. There are a few languages with good C/C++ FFI that are a better choice for memory safety, and so the tradeoff there isn't very hi
826.
by vacuity 3y ago
You might want to look at Cosh[1]. I'm puzzling over the paper right now, actually! It's a model for providing a message-passing abstraction that still allows for optimizations. I don't think it's really known outside of
827.
by vacuity 3y ago
I get where you're coming from, but it's a real problem that we have const-async-fallible-panicking-allocating combinatorial explosion. An effects system could abstract all of this away except for the base libraries and the applic
828.
by vacuity 3y ago
I don't know what you have against compile-once-run-many, but as a Rust user I agree that most software doesn't need C or Rust. I think there could probably be a Rust-like and a Java/Go-like, two general-purpose languages tha
829.
by vacuity 3y ago
> also doesn't allow pointers into the stack, so we can do very efficient copying "in the shadow" of cache misses How does this work?
830.
by vacuity 3y ago
Very fair, but if Rust gets a great effects system I think that'll be even better. Will take a while, though.
831.
by vacuity 3y ago
I think this is where we have to really move towards the io_uring/FlexSC approach.
832.
by vacuity 3y ago
The important distinction of stackless coroutines-as-async vs. green threads-as-async is the function coloring problem. I think stackful coroutines are largely obviated given more manageable function coloring, structured concurrency, and wh
833.
by vacuity 3y ago
Now Lenovo can join smartphone manufacturers and Google on the as-successful-as-drug-empires stage! Seriously, increasing profit for the sake of profit is a terrible goal. We as consumers need to be less susceptible to the marketing hype an
834.
by vacuity 3y ago
Our brains indeed are not quite like neural networks, but evolution isn't uniform for everyone, including in terms of brain development. There's also sexual dimorphism and epigenetics to consider. A lot more haphazard than custom
835.
by vacuity 3y ago
I don't see how Heisenberg comes into this. I'm intentionally excluding anyone who definitely wouldn't deserve the dealth penalty as a premise. I mean someone who is determined guilty by an oracle, or if that doesn't sat
836.
by vacuity 3y ago
I personally agree that the death penalty shouldn't be a thing, but if a court only sentenced definitely guilty people who committed very heinous crimes to death, why is the death penalty barbaric in that case? (Not leading you on, jus
837.
by vacuity 3y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world. If we're going to make huge breaking changes, might as well do it sooner rather than later.
838.
by vacuity 3y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Recently I was thinking about this along the lines of: "Why are the lights off? Can someone turn them on?" "Open your eyes, idiot." Sometimes it really is a problem with your own percepti
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by vacuity 3y ago
I'm aware of that. I have some misgivings about some of the beliefs on what pro-trans means. For the purpose of this thread, though, I don't think the nuance matters, since whether Rowling is right or wrong, she'd be heckled
840.
by vacuity 3y ago
I don't think moral progress necessarily implies an objective morality. We can't be working towards something we can't know about. We just happen to be walking towards it, or not. What we feel to be moral progress isn't

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