thegrimmest

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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
Trouble is that we live in an ecosystem, and "hoard the maximum you can defend, not the minimum you comfortably need" is an optimal behaviour emergent from the system. An ecosystem with an under-exploited niche will eventually pro
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
Voting and broadcasting (and here we are broadcasting) are different things.
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
Maybe a hot take, but I don't know that "privacy" and "anonymity" are the same thing, or that the latter is worth preserving. I would very much like to live in a world where everyone stood by everything they said on
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
Like most people, I treat people I know with a lot more kindness than people I don't. Whether most of us like to admit it or not, our actions demonstrate that we don't generally have much regard for distant strangers, no matter ho
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
I'm failing to see why any of this is immoral. Taking every (legal, nonviolent) advantage is called "doing business". We live in a competitive ecosystem. Under such conditions certain behaviours are emergent from the system.
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
How are we torturing morality so that the median quality of life rising by just about every metric is "Evil"?
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
It's lonely being an outlier, especially in a trait that's so fundamental to how you see the world. Despite best effort, it's hard to relate to most people, and they especially find it hard to relate to you. The delta of live
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
> An empire is a network of countries, controlled by and for the benefit of a central country, predominantly taken by force and maintained at least to some extent through the threat of force. I tend to agree. The keyword is "contr
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
I don't think you addressed my main point about ecosystems. Following your argument, every major power could be considered imperialistic, which kind of defeats the purpose of the word. Aye the US maintains some minor, vestigial, coloni
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
> The US American system is more capitalistic than the german one and the scissor between poor and rich is higher. And yet the US is a dominant player and Germany is not. > And we do not have a problem of resources today, we have s
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
It’s not a capitalism problem, it’s an ecosystem. Wherever living things compete for finite resources and opportunities, certain properties emerge from the system. And make no mistake we live in a crowded world full of fierce competition. A
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by thegrimmest 3mo ago
I don't think it's fair to compare US foreign policy to actual imperialism as practiced by the Soviets, the British, etc. The US does not maintain colonies, and, as you point out, does not even attempt to exert total control. Purs
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by thegrimmest 4mo ago
This is absurd. Why is it possible to end up with a majority black, tall, male, NBA team without pre-selecting on basis of race, height, or sex?
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by thegrimmest 4mo ago
I think the demonization comes from people resenting the use of authority to restrict liberty, and from conflating the resentment of authority with bigotry. In this case, let private people discriminate freely . "The trouble with fig
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by thegrimmest 4mo ago
"leftist subtexts" that treat this as a problem, and not as the single largest driver of growth in human history, to which we owe all of the material comfort we now enjoy.
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by thegrimmest 4mo ago
Many of us don't do what we do for our expertise to be recognized or valued by others, rather that is a pleasant side effect. Many of us do what we do for intrinsic reasons related to the nature of the work, and would likely do it for
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by thegrimmest 5mo ago
This dodges the moral argument behind "guns don't kill people", which is worth confronting directly. I think people can reasonably disagree about whether second/third/fourth/etc. order effects carry moral/
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by thegrimmest 5mo ago
No, because that would indicate there should be some sort of regulatory standard for what does/does not constitute "lazy engineering". Creating this standard in turn creates regulatory/compliance overhead for every softw
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by thegrimmest 6mo ago
Same way everyone has earned value from the beginning of time: negotiate with others. We are all born naked and without possessions. Everything we get, from the first day of our birth, is given to us by someone else. Our very first negotiat
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by thegrimmest 6mo ago
I’m not saying that at all. I’m saying that my right to choose which children I help is more legitimate than your right to dictate to me. That the voluntary nature of our cooperation is more important than equality of resource distribution.
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by thegrimmest 6mo ago
Slavery was (is) also an agreed upon social contract, enforced by various means. What makes it wrong? You clearly have morally prescriptive beliefs. Why are you so sure that your moral prescriptions are the right ones? And that being in the
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by thegrimmest 6mo ago
> This is garbage hypercapitalist/libertarian ideology. Go on then, how do you decide what people deserve? How do you negotiate with others who disagree with you? > examples above like public libraries I agree! The nice part
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by thegrimmest 6mo ago
For something to be deserved, it must be earned. What do these people do to distinguish themselves from The Engineer’s pets? If they are wholly dependant on him for their subsistence, what distinguishes him from their god? To derive an alte
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by thegrimmest 6mo ago
Who ever said you have the right to a decent a secure life? People don’t universally agree about this. Some of us posit that we will never escape a state of competition for fundamentally scarce resources. And that the organizing principle o
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by thegrimmest 8mo ago
Advocating for regulators to step in is already a value judgement. Why is "high profitability" a cause for regulatory scrutiny? The optimal behaviour in any ecosystem (corporate or natural) is to defend as much territory as is wit
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by thegrimmest 9mo ago
What if military intervention was an explicit part of the investment agreement in the first place? I’m not saying it was, but would it affect your judgement?
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by thegrimmest 9mo ago
You didn’t answer the question. What does the word “legitimate” mean to you?
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by thegrimmest 9mo ago
> So-called "intellectual property" laws dramatically skew what can and cannot be shared Agree! let's get rid of these :) > Censorship at the behest of world governments is rampant Agree! States have always pursued
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by thegrimmest 9mo ago
> States have a monopoly on violence This could be amended to "States have a monopoly legitimate on violence". Your comment seems to deny the existence of "legitimacy" as a concept. How do you distinguish between
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by thegrimmest 9mo ago
> They are closer to states than they are to algorithms This seems like nonsense. All the tech industry does is convince people. It doesn't force anyone to do anything. States have a monopoly on violence. No one holds a gun to any

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