Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
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Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
6d ago
and i think I made that clear in the above comment when I talked about the subject knowing
I dont think this is considering intent properly. Theres a difference between doing something despite or because of an effect. I think what Im suggesting here is similar to the doctrine of double effect - and you have been arguing that because the "forseen unintended" case is ok, the "forseen intended" case is too.
I think there is a conflation between sexual intercourse and the possible results of sexual intercourse - or conception. Sexual intercourse is the ejaculation of a penis in a vagina.
How do you think acts and their proper form are determined? I thought that it was to do with purposes. Meanwhile your description taken at face value, without background knowledge of what you want it to mean, sounds like condoms are ok too. I suggest that thats not a coincidence: the principles youre using on this case are much more permissive than those that inform your general view.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
9d ago
I'm trying to write up an effortpost about *** conditions
You have been awarded the hapax legomenon price for extraordinary achievements in rationalist brainwrangling.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
27d ago
It is a bit counterintuitive, but every bike ride is one less car ride, and this means a great cycling city has less congested traffic for cars.
In my experience, a cyclist on the road causes more delay for cars than another car would. Even though the bike is smaller than a car, it effectively blocks the same amount of space: the safety distance behind is the same, and that dominates the physical length. Being thinner is balanced by 2x+ the sideways distance for passing, plus for passing it usually doesnt matter how much of you sticks in the next lane, just if at all. And then they still are slower and often less predictable.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
7d ago
Thank you. Most of this seems pretty reasonable, I have some disagreements from action 3 downwards. I think this is a superficial understanding of what an act is, and you would have trouble in other areas of ethics if you set aside background knowledge and intent this much. Consider for example a surgery that ends up lethal: what distinguishes accident from murder, and bad luck from negligence? What is the sin of gluttony, if knowing that youre satiated makes no difference?
You could similarly break the pulling out method down into steps, each of which "surely is allowed": 1) having sex is allowed under the right conditions 2) youre not obligated to keep the penis inside the whole time 3) if you just happen to ejaculate while its outside, thats an involuntary reaction. This assumes you can do it without jerking once outside, but thats possible and I doubt its supposed to make a difference.
From what I remember, the church allows nuns to use the pill in places where theyre at risk of being raped. So its allowed to be used, and even for its contraceptive purpose. Why? Presumably because they dont intend to have sex that way.
Would an intra-vaginal spermicide be allowed? What if its application moves further in time from the intercourse, in the limit to something like a copper IUD without side effects? You cant technology your way out of purposes, and the selling point of natural family planning is that it doesnt feel like technology.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
17d ago
Your link is dead. Not sure how it happened in an hour, but try to link to images directly rather than their google images display.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
12d ago
The single determining criteria of autism vs schizotypy was an oversensitivity vs undersensitivity to errors in sensory prediction.
Im sceptical of this because for me this differs a lot between different kinds of sensations. E.g. I can never "forget that youre wearing it", whatever "it" is, but it takes effort to not tune out music in under a minute, even if Im not doing anything else.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
7d ago
Personally, I couldn't care less how "weird" this seems in the first place, as long as the treatments work. The human body is weird and unintuitive in the first place.
I care about weirdness because its a sign were missing something. This kind of weirdness is not about violating how we expect things to work, you could substitute most properties for "recreational" and it would still be weird. So I dont think it matters whether the body is intutive. By analogy, the current best proof of the four colour theorem works by proving all graphs countain one of 633 possible configurations, and brute-force checking that each of them is reducible in a certain sense, which they all are. You dont need to know anything about mathematics to see that there might be more going on there.
Well, ECT and transcranial magnetic stimulation use no drugs at all
Thats certainly interesting. Even after years of reading Scott, I still had the impression that after the SSRIs, its maybe MAOIs and then nothing. Its still interesting that its only recreational drugs so far. I think cerebrolysin was supposed to be that, but it doesnt seem like that went anywhere.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
7d ago
but leaving that aside, there's an opioid epidemic.
Yes. It would be nice to notice danger before it leads to an epidemic. Theres even this same "the numbers say addiction is rare" used as part of the argument for expanding use that far in the first place. You may not be in America, but its relevant because you lean on "we as doctors".
There are all kinds of drugs that have
nil recreational value, but which engender physiological or psychological dependence.
I know. What Im talking about is the pattern with psilocybin, ketamine, maybe ecstasy? where they are supposed to treat depression with few sessions, and effects lasting months. Its weird that we found three recreational drugs from different families doing this, and no non-recreational ones.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
anarcho tyranny
What do you mean by that? As I know it, anarcho tyranny is when you use punishments that only respectable people care about, which combined combined with certain doctrines about self defense or legal uncertainty forces them to endure crime that you do nothing against. That doesnt really make sense in your sentence.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
There's an endless list of substances that, if used recklessly or without sufficient knowledge, lead to harm.
And very few of them are tempting to use in such ways. Those substances doctors have in fact used in harmful ways. The US just recently had a dustup about opioids.
That would entail a full lecture
It really shouldnt. Listing of the action mechanisms of those drugs is not an explanation - if thats all you would do, the high-level answer is "its just a coincidence". It doesnt explain why no non-recreational drugs do the same. If there is some receptor pathway that necessarily connects the curative and recreational parts, then what makes you think they are distinct?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
14d ago
Why is it even illegal to drink while driving? If you can drive after having a beer, it should be fine to have it during, no? (I have also never heard of anyone doing this, but Im far away.)
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
11d ago
Recently watched a video...
I wonder how much you could condition yourself against abrasion. I know people can run on gravel at least.
If it was 2 v. 2 I'd prefer some kind of tag-team format, since actual two v. twos inevitably turn into 1 v. 2s, which always end badly for the one.
I did mean to see the dynamics defending multiple directions. Just make it so the team loses with the first knockout/tap.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
2mo ago
Unfortunately it appears they made a mistake and accidentally sent an internal letter
I think thats the second or third time were seeing this specific kind of leak in the new Trump administration.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
That's akin to borrowing happiness from tomorrow at a very high interest rate, it doesn't end well.
If were talking about the effect of a ~one time experience, then comedowns arent necessarily relevant. We might imagine for example someone seeing "Wow, its possible to be happy" and that giving him hope in life. That hope might point down the abyss, but thats only measurable when you get there.
But taking this at face value: do you think peoples lives are worse for alcohol? Theres a hangover there too, and in the narrow pleasure-pain accounting, youre not coming out ahead - yet there are many apprently non-addicted people who are using it a decent amount.
It's highly reductive to dismiss such advances as "Drugs can make you feel better when used responsibly".
Yes, thats the point. The value of the cliche depends on not thinking you can outsmart it.
Nobody has lost their job or family because they drink too much coffee.
I am well aware. The link is not directly related to my point here, and I was wondering more about the idea that shes better off for it.
It also remains fascinating, the way people will respond to every part of my comment but the main one. Why do you think apparently different drugs work in such similar ways here?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
17d ago
My guess was USSR + SSRI, but that didnt and doesnt make sense.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
11d ago
The variation could at least be semi-realistic, to be in keeping with the original idea. Longer/no rounds, ground that really sucks to be on, 2v2, etc.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
Not either of these unfortunately. Definitely post-split, likely post-covid. My top guess is that it was linked in theschism. Will play with the search engine, thanks.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
Prescribing cocaine and heroin is, unfortunately, not a viable cure for depression.
Has anyone tried? In the manner of these studies I mean, not by just looking at addicts. People whove done heroin generally report that naive use is an experience beyond anything they had before. I would not be surprised if this influences people even months later. But it also might not, there are always those pescy details. E.g. maybe it overlaps too much with the alcohol high to show effects in our society.
Its more that we have now found multiple drugs with different mechanisms of action, but apparently similar in terms of how they are used and effect against depression, and all of them are used recreationally for their short-term effects. That suggests to me that it works off the recreational bit, and it again wouldnt be super surprising if it did. "Drugs can make you feel better when used responsibly" is hardly a new insight - the entire problem is the way they lead to non-responsible use.
Also curious what you think of this one.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
This is an oversimplification (inevitable, perhaps, when discussing Hegel) but Hegelian philosophy is sometimes explained through the metaphor of an acorn.
I know one such quote, but the point there is different, illustrating his dynamic hylomorphism:
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. These stages are not merely different; they supplant one another as being incompatible with one another. But their own inherent nature makes them at the same time moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and this constitutes the nature of the whole.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
In the case of rationalists, it's not even a point as major as seed oil disrespect among the "bronze age warriors,"
I think youre off on that. Both groups have people who are really into that thing, but those people are much more central to rationalism. I remember a compatriot who would drink pumpkin seed oil (its a thing in styria) neat as countersignalling and he never had problems.
Also, I think going bald is actually not the end of the world. I would on balance advice not messing with your hormones over it, unless youre 20 or something.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
30d ago
I dont think thats a good analogy. While people do try to police race boundaries sometimes, there is not in fact a consensus sorting everyone into white and black. I would tell our autist about definitely white and definitely black people, and the ones in between will depend on whos making the judgement and whats convenient for them at the time. I dont think progressives are happy with this a model for how transgender should work.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
phantom limb syndrome researchers found ~60% of transmen reported experiencing phantom penis sensations, when surveyed.
And why would you think that these self-reports prove anything to someone sceptical of gender self-reports? Do you think trans people dont understand that such phantom sensations would make them sound more "valid"?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1mo ago
What do you think of ABSCAM? It looks like they did a sting operation, found that lots of politicians had ~0 inhibition to corruption, and the end result was... they promised not to do those operations again? So if there is actually very little corruption, why not? Just a bunch of 100$ bills on the floor?
MMT is propably not a popular position here. Your comment mostly assumes its true, and your very long quote is entirely about why the reactionaries wont see the light. The justification is essentially this:
The rest is the same thing in different words. And as for that.
Why is inflation correcting it? We have over the last few years heard from many left-leaning economists that inflation is actually fine, the lower classes are just irrationally afraid of it, go right ahead Mr Biden. In a mostly cashless economy like the US, even the logistical problems of hyperinflation can be handled pretty well.
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