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by xtian 9y ago
Your scenario is just as contrived as the first one. It assumes a complete and accurate knowledge of the situation as well as a perfect ability to execute on your decision to harm the shooter. If your only means for investigating the nature
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by xtian 9y ago
You can't change the context of a statement without changing its meaning.
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by xtian 9y ago
What is the benefit of spending time on such a contrived scenario? This is the ethicist's version of "assume a spherical cow". In actual reality you will never have any certainty about the outcomes of interactions like these.
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by xtian 9y ago
Good grief. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8825813
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by xtian 9y ago
Right, we need to make sure that selling drugs continues to be a viable black market business model.
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by xtian 9y ago
There are ads — at least on mobile.
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by xtian 9y ago
I would like the same functionality and I would love if it supported encryption as well as signing.
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Male contraceptive blocked by drug companies(independent.co.uk)
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by xtian 10y ago
So these others will have some ability to learn from our mistakes which we don't possess now?
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by xtian 10y ago
We've constructed a society which is incapable of responding effectively to even ultimate crisis, and faced with that realization all we can think to do is devise a way to preserve the leavings of that dead-end paradigm. Very nice.
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by xtian 10y ago
That's not where artists themselves draw the line, despite the fact that it describes a large percentage of artwork.
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by xtian 10y ago
The question is not whether a company can change, it's whether it will. The values and priorities that a company emphasizes condition employees and managers to think in a certain way. Changing that conditioning over a large population
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by xtian 10y ago
What does that have to do with anything?
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by xtian 10y ago
The observed phenomena are the perception, reasoning, and labeling processes you describe. The word "consciousness" refers to the means by which those processes and many others are interconnected.
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by xtian 10y ago
Interesting line of thought.
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by xtian 10y ago
No, I don't think that. Maybe I was ambiguous. My question was whether we want law enforcement to become purveyors of illegal material in order to prosecute people seeking that material. That seems a little circular to me. And since th
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by xtian 10y ago
The question is whether this is how we want law enforcement to operate in our society. And in the process of answering that question we should probably ask, "is it working?"
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by xtian 10y ago
Right and so if the reasons are benign then there's nothing to be done. Sorry if that was unclear.
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by xtian 10y ago
Start asking why so many people want to alter their subjective realities. If what you find extends beyond mere curiosity, then address those things.
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by xtian 10y ago
Neither predicted a cataclysm. A certain cycle of the Mayan calendar just ended in 2012.
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by xtian 10y ago
Profit is the accumulation of capital. What you've described is a way of pursuing profit. Outside of economics, I think the word "profit" is meaningless. As you've demonstrated, however, there are two conflicting sense
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by xtian 10y ago
> Or, would we prefer a society wherein we give social license to all corporations to behave like blatantly psychotic entities--whose only goal is profit I would prefer a society where we all accept that this is the only thing corporat
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by xtian 10y ago
How is this implemented in the Islamic Republic? In the US we use a number of interlocking myths and fears which ultimately amount to a basic misanthropy. The most pervasive and effective of these is the "people are stupid" myth w
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by xtian 10y ago
> At the other hand ordinary people live in so much pressure they don't tend to educate themselves This is the core issue, in my opinion. We have made democratic participation a luxury.
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by xtian 10y ago
But "retarded" is in fact a different word than the alternatives you posted. Different words have different implicit and explicit connotations. So word choice and style of communication are entirely valid factors when evaluating w
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by xtian 10y ago
SRI is meaningless on an insecure page.
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by xtian 10y ago
This is essentially the premise of the movie Sleep Dealer.
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by xtian 10y ago
It is a closed, misanthropic attitude towards "people" which leads to and excuses the sort of behavior you're lamenting.
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by xtian 10y ago
The better indicator of quality is how well the yolk and white hold together. A low quality egg will have a runny white and the yolk will break very easily.
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by xtian 10y ago
My Rift doesn't have a vertical green line between the two eyes. That sounds like a technical issue.

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