FeepingCreature
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FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Is that insufficiently or invalidly bad?
Imagine, to pose an unreasonable extreme, everything beautiful in the world becoming ugly and disfigured. That would be a mere aesthetic change, but it would also drive near anyone to suicide. If we are agreed that this should ought to be prevented, we can then begin negotiating degrees.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I'd presume a large part of the point of jailing white-collar criminals is to prevent first offenses.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I don't think it's a given that death is more humiliating than jail.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
If you're hiring a lot of people but don't want to switch to blind hiring entirely, you can maybe do blind hiring spot-tests, where you get a preliminary accept/reject for a candidate via the regular process, then mask out or randomize the name and rerun the process. The distributions should be the same. If they aren't, that provides evidence that blind hiring may be better.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I can guarantee you that the local homeless guy would get more out of the $165 I recently earned than I will.
It's not ... directly obvious that this is true. Consider the stereotype of him spending it all on crack or booze. It may also depend on the region. There's probably studies on this; could you link them?
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Correct, utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics are intercompatible: "My utility is maximized if I behave in accordance with the rules/in a virtuous fashion" vs. "The rule I follow is utilitarianism; utilitarianism is the most virtuous form of behavior." But generally, utilitarianism just means you rate worldstates in a one-dimensional numeric fashion; it doesn't say anything about the nature of your preference. The utility function is not up for grabs. Similarly, I could say, idk, Randian ethics are not virtue ethics because I don't recognize their target as virtuous, but that's just not how those terms work: they're about the way in which you pursue the good / the rules / your preferences, not what those preferences are.
Now, lots of utilitarians, especially in these spaces, are also liberal humanists, and so rate all human life equally, and there are certainly arguments to be had for or against that, but neither side has a monopoly on "utilitarianism".
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I've never seen anybody use this phrase here. I don't think it's what people are thinking of with the "less heat, more light" idiom, or if so, it's so metaphorically removed there's no relevance.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
How is LOTR gnostic? Offhand, it doesn't seem to match your description at all.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Discussing noncontroversial things is good training for discussing controversial things, because it's a lot easier to discuss dispassionately.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I mean - yes.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Hot take: doxing is still bad actually.
I mean, I think banning all links is going too far, but if you think they're a danger to others, call the police - and if not, I think people should stay out of others' personal life unless explicitly invited.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
@ZorbaTHut Could you set the frontpage to Hot rather than New by default? Would make it easier for posts like this to disappear.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Yeah Space Exploration feels almost like playing a vanilla extension. I have my own beefs with it - all the SE science recipes are basically the same layout (three rows of fluid buildings that eat data cards, one aggregate, two wildcards and then you make the science) but it's mostly just a great normal ride, no difficulty adjustment, not much playstyle adjustment aside from, well, planets. :)
I will say that I strongly recommend playing it with friends. The multiple planets allow, or rather borderline require, division of labor. We play with a bunch of added mods on top, LTN, LTN Manager, Factory Planner, Inventory Sensor (this makes reactors ~ 10x easier to design), TODO List and Quick Item Search. I recommend all of them, even though LTN is less necessary now and it's still a bitch to configure - don't use it without LTN manager.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I kinda like the idea as a reporting feature, along the lines of "I don't think this comment requires mod action, but it may benefit from mod support/feedback/supervision/private conversation."
Depends how close to the border you get. As a high-german speaker, I can say from experience that spoken Plattdeutsch is completely unintelligible to me. I'd have had more luck talking to that person in English - which is a problem if you're trying to book a room for the night! :) (We got through it with sign language.)
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