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by woodman 11y ago
>> all things being equal If you could stop the pain without dying, would you still kill yourself? If you could escape depression without dying, would you still kill yourself? If you could find meaning in your existence without dying,
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by woodman 11y ago
> all things being equal and outside of coercion. I think that covers mental illness, war, dying in a fire while rescuing kittens, emo cutting, etc.
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by woodman 11y ago
I'm not talking about whimsical preference, I'm talking about group membership defining attributes - preferences that make one a human being and that every other human has or will share. And yes, this would define a human being e
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by woodman 11y ago
> So do you include the future and the past? Yes. I think the point of confusion is around "universality". I'm not talking about a unanimous agreement on preference between people born and unborn, I'm talking about
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by woodman 11y ago
> are I don't think that existence is subjective, so universal preference either exists or it doesn't. It has been a long time since I've sat in a philosophy class though, so I'd welcome a correction.
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by woodman 11y ago
As a foundation for morality it does, violation of a universal principle being an immoral act. Your hypothetical situation depends on the dimension of time, I'd say that universality has no such constraint: the concept of a perfect ci
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by woodman 11y ago
> Morality is, unfortunately, subjective. That is only true if there are no universal preferences: things like self ownership, all things being equal, is always preferable to slavery.
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by woodman 11y ago
The population density is also much less if we scaled the population of my apartment up to 13,000 km², but that isn't how metropolitan areas are traditionally measured. The NYC metro area includes three states, lots of sprawl - so it
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by woodman 11y ago
> I'm from a more metropolitan area i guess. I would be surprised if you are from somewhere more metropolitan than Kobe Japan [0]. It is much more likely that you are just young. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by woodman 11y ago
We would all be better off if the world were more logically consistent, and we won't ever get there if our first response is to simply shrug. By denying the government any technical justifications for the collection effort, they are l
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by woodman 11y ago
Wow, I don't know that I've seen such a perfect example of Battered Woman Syndrome outside of a rerun of Cops. By "Perceived wrong doing", you mean clear and well documented violations of the law - right? Portraying pe
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by woodman 11y ago
> Social security is not a good or service, it's money. I'd agree if it were a self funding program, but it isn't. Due to the ever increasing deficit, scarcity increases with consumption - the earlier generations are payi
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by woodman 11y ago
You've either somehow overlooked the two I initially named - one of which has been actively discussed, or you disagree and have decided to make a sarcastic remark instead of offering a counter argument.
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by woodman 11y ago
It sounds like you are projecting your own situation onto an entire generation, completely ignoring the statistics. You aren't richer for having available a resource that you don't need but you are still made to pay for. That is
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by woodman 11y ago
> At 30, will you stick to health care invented when your parents were 30? Why would I, why would they? The issue at hand is cost; they pay much less than I do to utilize the same services due to now legally mandated insurance. > Aga
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by woodman 11y ago
> Social security is not a good. Neither is health care - its a category. Allow me to quote myself, quoting you: "name a good or service ". > Would you be willing to stick to your parents health care choices? Do you mean th
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by woodman 11y ago
> ... it should be easy to name a good or service that we consume less of than them. Anyone care to do that? Social Security and health care come to mind.
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by woodman 11y ago
Well I'll summarize my perspective as well. If somebody needs emotional coddling in order to see reason - they aren't really going to see reason (not in the long term at least). It therefore makes no sense to deviate from a logi
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by woodman 11y ago
> "Vestigial" is the wrong/insensitive word. WELL, I never. I'm offended at your offence to my insensitivity. I can be intransigent about the value of logic relative to emotion as well. > When dealing with a soft
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by woodman 11y ago
So what argument would you recommend? You've clearly come out against using logic, and suggested to the "geeks" that vestigial evolutionary behavior "must be accounted for". How do you suggest that be done, emotio
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by woodman 11y ago
Vehicles are though, by way of DOT standards, various state regulations and licences... Wanna drive on the highway? That better be a vehicle perscribed for such activity.
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by woodman 11y ago
Thomas Jefferson disagrees :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights
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by woodman 11y ago
> I led a platoon in Iraq, and we did nothing of the sort. I fought in Fallujah; I would be very surprised to hear from the residents that they did not feel terrorized or modify their behavior in response to our activities. I have no do
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by woodman 11y ago
> I would no sooner put a anti-gov politician in charge than hire a manager who's opposed to the existence of the team he's managing. That is how you get ever expanding bureaucracy, regulatory overreach, kingdom building and in
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by woodman 11y ago
I'm not dave, but the comment seems to point at the fact that alcohol is a much more destructive substance, on a national scale, than the substances covered on Erowid. Given the phrasing of the sentence, I don't think he is out o
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by woodman 11y ago
I have not, but I spent a lot of time looking into it. In the end I had a hard time justifying the time and technical debt required to get something like agentspeak into production. I did play around with flame[0], a C based framework (I&
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by woodman 11y ago
Man I can't wait for ubiquitous natural language processing and symbolic logic. A recap: > "...or running credit cards, still often require wired..." A statement of exclusivity if one overlooks the weaselly use of the w
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by woodman 11y ago
You could just as easily use your own argument to say that the inclusion of women in a variety of professions demonstrates the validity of "econ 101 in a vacuum". This is a different issue though, less to do with market efficienc
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by woodman 11y ago
Sorry, I've dug through a couple of boxes (like I said, several years ago) and can't find it. I'm pretty sure the pregnancy issue was also covered in a RAND paper, but there were some interesting complications with that spec
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by woodman 11y ago
You're doing it wrong, that isn't how you displace a market leader - you invent a new market. The barrier to entry isn't that high in tech, unless your pocket contains a fist full of lint and buttons - you do have enough cap

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