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It's worth to look at the track record of utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham, often regarded as the founder of classical utilitarianism, almost 300 years ago, was arguing in favor of women's rights, decriminalization of homosexuality,
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Your first sentence betrays lack of familiarity with EA. It is offensive to me that you state it as fact. EA started as a continuation of Peter Singer's argument in "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (1972), as a progression a
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If anyone is interested in Utilitarianism, consider this open-access textbook: https://www.utilitarianism.net/
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Living in a developed country. If I was living outside the US or Europe, on average, I'd be earning less than 1/5 of what I earn doing in the US (and that's for basically any job I'd be doing - as a math teacher, etc). M
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The book Seeing Like a State referenced in the article is an amazing read: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/d... Highly recommend, though glance at summary to confirm you'll enjoy &#x2F
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My favorite tool ever: diff2html-cli - https://diff2html.xyz/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/diff2html-cli See the diff as HTML (side by side or unified)
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Putting it on your radar: Approval Voting Has many advantages over RCV / IRV (Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting). For one - no need to change ballots; educating the public is a single sentence rather than a more-compl
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Have you heard of the 127 gram headset "Bigscreen Beyond"? Might be what you need to address neck concerns. https://www.bigscreenvr.com/
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Don't mean to take it off-topic, but I'd love to see JPEG XL (.jxl) image format support (that's now part of Safari).
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"The Norway Problem" - had to look it up: https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/ Norway abbreviates to "NO" which YAML parses as "false"
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I came to recommend the same book! It's one of my favorite books of my life now - I think more people need to read this. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeveryt... or https://w
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One fun theory is that layout purposefully included letters for the word "Typewriter" in the top row (even when fingers are on the home row). This made it an easy selling point: "see how easy it is to type the name of the obj
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Semi-related(?) - I created a repository to convert PDF to JPG and back to PDF: https://github.com/whyboris/PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF A government form didn't have editable fields that needed to be filled out. And editing
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I've read another book by the same author in my 20s and it was not bad. This one I'm considering reading. I'm thrilled there's a book on the topic of this cool emotion.
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Got an error trying to run upiano after installing FluidSynth via brew (brew install fluidsynth) Had to use this technique to make it work: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75339618/5017391 Worked beautifully af
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Speaking of Awe : Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner https://www.amazon.com/Awe-Science-Everyday-Wonder-Transform... Unsure how good the book is, but thought to p
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I've heard the phrase "you have to know the rules to break them" (or something similar). The next generation of creators may look at that and choose to change their story telling on purpose, or exaggerate the curves, or somet
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I can not return to an office -- I moved to rural Michigan where I enjoy nature and a quieter pace of life -- 100% WFH. All these articles from media controlled by capitalists hellbent on shaming workers and insisting the problem lies wit
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Does an artist not see thousands of artworks as they develop their style? Do artists not experiment with hundreds of styles as they hone in on something they want to be theirs? Is the internet, a tool that lets them see even more artwor
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A lovely piece of advice I came across from Larry King in his book How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere : If you're about to give a public speech and you don't have much experience (and are thus anxious), come out and state a
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I wonder about a parallel for paintings. What if there was an analysis stating exactly the brushes the painter used, the number of strokes, the exact pigments, etc? Would that, in your opinion, "suck the 'soul' out of a paint
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Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life book: https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Reading-News-information-overloa... TL;DR: a PDF: https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2010-dobe
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Una Corda is one of my favorites - I came here to post it: https://klavins-pianos.com/products/una-corda/ And for a two-story version, see the Model 450i Vertical Concert Grand https://klavins-piano
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It's already on the 4DWW (Four Day Work Week) schedule: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur = Four weekdays, and Friday is classified as the weekend ;)
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Numi on MacOS: https://numi.app/ SpeedCrunch on Windows: https://heldercorreia.bitbucket.io/speedcrunch/
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Great start - basically a single-click installation with a single command to ask for a response. Unfortunately the responses are very wrong: "Who is William MacAskill?" has some good stuff in the answer, and then claims he wrote a
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp... Great read, right on topic :)
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There's code on his editor already, mom's spaghetti
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I performed all the data preparation, computation, and image generation for an interactive data visualization website in Jupyter https://income-inequality.info/ All the processing is documented with Jupyter notebooks, allow
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Every dip in the wave is an opportunity to plant beautiful bush, flowers, or shrubbery.

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