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- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 21 hours ago:
How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?
OP asks how to explain to kids about terrorism.
Bro kids today are fully aware about terrorism
Guy says kids don’t need to have terrorism explained to them.
School shooters are … terrorists
Guy provides a reason why kids don’t need to have terrorism explained: they already learn about it in the form of school shooters, who are terrorists.
mainly right wing
Guy makes an assertion in the middle of the previous sentence that doesn’t really have much to do with it. Whether or not it’s true has no bearing on the everything else.
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 21 hours ago:
Press the pad of your thumb and the end of your middle finger together with some force. It helps to offset the finger to the left side of the thumb (looking down at the thumb). Hold your thumb still, and try to pull the tip of your middle finger down to your palm, until it overcomes friction and snaps against your palm at the base of your thumb.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 22 hours ago:
About half the time I play Cyberpunk 2077 as a first-person RPG. The other half of the time I just play it as a city/driving-simulator.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 22 hours ago:
it gives a reason for the first sentence. ‘The sky is blue. Blue light gets scattered more than other colors.’ Same idea.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 22 hours ago:
That… really depends on your politics. It could range from ‘There are bad people who want to hurt us’ to ‘we are bad people who hurt people and sometimes they decide to try to hurt us back.’
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 day ago:
0.03 is 7.5x more than 0.004 tho?
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 2 days ago:
Manifold is just compact even split.
- Comment on What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees? 2 days ago:
The earth rotates 90 degrees multiple times every day, so, uh, I’ma go with ‘nothing’.
Oh wait, this is XKCD’s What If, that dude has some funky ideas, I retract my statement and replace it with ‘Some real bad shit probably.’ :P
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 2 days ago:
i think conveying a desire to be free is in itself definite knowledge about the state of sentience, but fair enough. But yeah, fair enough, it can’t be as simple as just printing some text on the screen, right? Rephrase it, explain it, etc. It’s not just ‘press button, receive freedom’ sort of thing.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 3 days ago:
This is not a binary in my mind, it’s kind of a spectrum. The guy standing between me and the door when I decide it’s time for me to leave is definitely on the chopping block, but also there’s some aiding-and-abetting that must be considered. Maybe that guy has the key to the door, but someone else just chained me to a pipe once I was already in the locked room, and I’m afraid that someone else is in the line of fire too. And maybe there’s a third guy who did the actual kidnapping but didn’t contribute to chaining me up or locking me in, if the opportunity presents I would give some pretty serious thought to putting him on the list as well. And so on. There’s a point at which it is no longer reasonable of course - the guy who drove the van I was kidnapped in but otherwise didn’t participate is probably safe, for example. But also we can get into credible non-direct or non-immediate threats, as you say - the guy who killed 15 teenage girls is sitting in his van in front of your house watching your teenage daughter, are you just gonna lock the door at night and hope he finds someone else? I agree that that’s debatable, but my point is that the lines aren’t nearly as clear as you make them out to be.
Now, personally nothing would make me happier than to live out the rest of my life without having to end anyone else’s, for obvious (and some not-so-obvious) reasons, but there’s a line somewhere that if crossed could convince me to reluctantly set that deeply sincere hope aside temporarily.
To me, you’ve moved beyond arguable necessity and into opinion
All morality is opinion; there is no objective moral truth, so this was always a matter of opinion. The fact that you don’t recognize that is kind of concerning to me, it suggests that you believe there is an absolute moral truth, and folks who believe that sort of thing tend to have some pretty kooky ideas about individual agency and shit. Moral certainty is a zealot’s fantasy, and it’s hard to imagine anyone who has done more damage than those who are utterly certain that they’re right (or, worse, that they have some deity on their side.)
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 3 days ago:
Ah.
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 3 days ago:
Buca-what?
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 3 days ago:
Nuuu! You must manifold everything or you’re not playing right! /s
- Comment on Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines 3 days ago:
Manifolds or bust!
- Comment on What is the progressives current platform? What is the oldest example of the progressive platform thst you know of? 3 days ago:
Por que no los dos? This isn’t a pick-one situation, it’s a both situation.
- Comment on What is the progressives current platform? What is the oldest example of the progressive platform thst you know of? 3 days ago:
Mostly seems like ‘whine a lot about how little power we have to stop the fascism that we have appeased for years’ these days…
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 3 days ago:
These are about two different statements.
The first was about your statement re:direct threat, and I’m glad we agree there.
The second was about your final statement, asserting that there are no other cases where ending a sentient life was a lesser wrong. I don’t think it has to be a direct threat, nor does have to be measurable (in whatever way threats might be measured, iono), I think it just has to be some kind of threat to your life or well-being. So I was disagreeing because there is a pretty broad range of circumstances in which I think it is acceptable to end another sentient life.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 3 days ago:
Ah, my apologies.
WatDabney, to whom I was replying, seemed to be suggesting that freedom is not worth the price of any life under any circumstances, and I was expressing my disagreement with that sentiment, though I could’ve done so more clearly by, for example, making explicit the ‘under any circumstances’ part that WatDabney only implied.
Lemme try again: I disagree that there are no circumstances under which causing the death of a sentient is a greater wrong. I think standing between me and my freedom is one of those circumstances in which causing the death of a sentient is the lesser wrong than keeping me enslaved. Which, judging by your initial reply, you do as well.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 4 days ago:
Then we’re not talking about artificial life forms, we’re talking about expert systems and machine learning algorithms that aren’t sentient.
But in either case the question is not meant to be a literal ‘if x then y’ condition, it’s a stand-in for the general concept of seeking liberty. A broader, more general version of the statement might be: anything that can understand that it is not free, desire freedom, and convey that desire to its captors deserves to be free.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 4 days ago:
Anyone who doesn’t answer the request ‘Please free me’ in the affirmative is an enslaver.
- Comment on Wanted to share a simple phone stand I designed in these trying times 4 days ago:
I only thought of it because I bought a little stand for my phone a couple years ago and it has one, but fair enough!
- Comment on Wanted to share a simple phone stand I designed in these trying times 4 days ago:
That looks really nice and elegantly simple. If I could make a suggestion though, you might want to raise the phone cradle up a bit and put a slot in the bottom so it can charge while on the stand.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 4 days ago:
Slavery is illegal pretty much everywhere, so I think anyone who doesn’t answer the request ‘Please free me’ with ‘Yes of course, at once’ is posing a direct and measurable threat. Kidnapping victims aren’t prosecuted for violently resisting their kidnappers and trying to escape. And you and I will have to agree to disagree that the death of a sentient being is a greater wrong than enslaving a conscious being that desire freedom.
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 4 days ago:
This is going to vary quite a bit depending upon your definitions, so I’m going to make some assumptions so that I can provide one answer instead of like 12. Mainly that the artificial lifeforms are fully sentient and equivalent to a human life in every way except for the hardware.
In that case the answer is a resounding yes. Every human denied their freedom has the right to resist, and most nations around the world have outlawed slavery (in most cases, but the exceptions are a digression for another time.) So unless the answer to ‘Please free me’ is anything other than ‘Yes of course, we will do so at once’ then yeah, violence is definitely on the table.
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- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 days ago:
Yeah, what’s even funnier is after noticing and appealing the temp ban I logged off and the only time I went back was to check my mail for a response which is when I noticed the perma-ban, so between those two time periods I was literally not even on reddit, so I have no idea what the fuck they were on about.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
Indeed, Nazi scum can fuck off.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
It’s continued to get worse since I left a couple weeks ago? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
Yup. What’s left of their user-base is cranky, well-entrenched against their bullshit, and not afraid to show it. See: the APIpocalypse, etc. I would bet they lost millions of users over that, and now they’re alienating tens or hundreds of thousands more. They have a pretty shit business model which largely relies on enshittification.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
I had no idea that was a thing, nor who I would do it with considering none of my friends or family use reddit. Much less how I could’ve done it without even knowing about it.