McBeige

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by McBeige 3y ago
Inflating is such a cool idea, it'd work for any 3D shape I can think of. If keeping air pressure is an issue, that might be resolved by making the sheet rigid once deployed. Are there UV curing resins that won't cure at all befor
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by McBeige 3y ago
It keeps getting recommended on HN - should there be a book club?
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by McBeige 3y ago
Ive been wanting a syntax-tree-viewer for months, to help me learn functional languages where figuring out what is even going on syntax-wise in the exmaples provided by tutorials keeps being an issue for me. Does anyone know of a way to se
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by McBeige 3y ago
It's besides the point, but a slight correction: you wouldn't assume someone's preferred pronouns from details about their genitals (it'd be offensive to ask or try to check!), but from how they present them self - throu
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by McBeige 3y ago
Those two books came to me at a time when I was very receptive to and in need of their messages, and I'm still digesting them a year later. Very short, highly recommended to anyone who cares about: emotion, our place in the world, or c
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by McBeige 3y ago
It's so weird. I think that sometimes, but I don't usually think about it. Most of the time it's just a short moment "awake" and aware that all of this is batshit absurd, then recognizing that there's nothing
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by McBeige 4y ago
Is this an example of federation?
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by McBeige 4y ago
It works for me on Firefox on Android. The color wheel thing is sticky while the rest of the content is not. The wheel changes to illustrate each new example as they're scrolled past.
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by McBeige 4y ago
It's lightness and weight, as in Kundera's 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'. Lightness is nice, it's comfortable, but vertigo inducing. So we also long for weight sometimes.
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by McBeige 4y ago
Adrian Chaikovsky's Children of Time explores similar topics. I recommend it, it's alright and the ideas are cool.
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by McBeige 4y ago
What type of discipline do you mean? The self discipline to behave in a way that enables you to live a good life? Or external discipline that makes you behave in a way (not necessarily a good way) out of fear of punishment? Which of these a
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by McBeige 4y ago
I'm guessing it's irrational as in rational vs irrational numbers. Rational means a fraction of whole numbers, so irrational numbers are those which cannot be represented as such a fraction. A 1/4 turn is rational, a 1&#x2F
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by McBeige 4y ago
Those additional lives are hypothetical and in the future, and maximizing the number of humans alive might not be the right thing to do. IMO this is one of the really juicy questions.
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by McBeige 4y ago
> You can't really boil down trolley problems into "Would you kill x or y?". Thoughts on why you can't? I think you can and must .
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by McBeige 4y ago
Multi track drifting to maximize kill count?
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by McBeige 4y ago
My worst enemy is the side of me that constantly doubts and berates me. But I guess I should accept that it's just trying to protect me and I needed it in the past but now I need something else. Nah it gets the train.
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by McBeige 4y ago
It's soooo sloooow. But yeah it's nicely done
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by McBeige 4y ago
If you were a monkey, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a monkey? Or equivalently, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a robot that's twice as sentient as the average human?
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by McBeige 4y ago
That's just a description of normal life though. We must imagine trolleyphus happy. Unless "eternal" means immortality, in which case it's even better than life!
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by McBeige 4y ago
The stuff of nightmares, or an encouragement of bravery to do the right thing regardless of the ambiguousnes and uncertainty? A bit of both, for me.
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by McBeige 4y ago
A trolley problem is going uncontrollably down the tracks. Do you pull a lever to intentionally derail it, or let it pass without consequence? /s
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by McBeige 4y ago
I have no savings, but that's probably cheating. I know I'd sacrifice your life savings in a heartbeat, does that count? ;)
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by McBeige 4y ago
"you" are not the thoughts and emotions that happens to reside in some sack of meat. Or at least that's not a complete picture. In some sense "ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" should be taken lite
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by McBeige 4y ago
My gut reaction was to kill the rich person. I justify it like this: a world where well-being is decided by wealth is unjust and undesirable, so trying to enjoy your privilege is a moral wrongdoing because it very directly prevents the spre
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by McBeige 4y ago
That only makes sense if you think in terms of law to the detriment of morality. Does responsibility play any role in morality?
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by McBeige 4y ago
But if you play the trolley game twice, surely you double your kill count across games? Edit: misread your ? as !
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by McBeige 4y ago
Heck yeah it's my decision! I don't want to live in a world where decisions are made like this, but in this case we must accept our role as the lever puller. Or walk away I guess, but that's no different from actively condemn
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by McBeige 4y ago
Don't forget robots. Sentient robots are AT LEAST between cat and lobster, perhaps above human. Robot rights now!
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by McBeige 4y ago
I voted to speed it up. "I don't know everything so I remain cautious" is a mentality I applied for some problems, and not for others. In this case I thought the problem would be trivial/boring if considered from that me
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by McBeige 4y ago
You don't get to not choose.

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