Obsidian
4mo ago
The devs quit way too early on that one. The learning curve is all over the place, and the horror effect lasts maybe one hour. Shame, it's such a cool game.
Obsidian
3mo ago
The main theme is about how slavery obliterates everything it comes into contact with, and specifically, the identity of the enslaved.
C. V. Gheorghiu's The 25th Hour, a whirlwind tour of European labor camps and concentration camps during World War II, also does a lot with this theme. It's fairly didactic though. His other book La Seconde Chance is a work of genius, and much better written; unfortunately it has not been translated to English.
Obsidian
4mo ago
I want to understand more about what you're working with/where you're coming from.
Obsidian
4mo ago
What aspects turned you off? I liked the political plays, the tension, the insurgency, the Mafia-style social deduction games. If you completely ignore the subplots having to do with spirituality and mysticism, it's a good show!
Obsidian
9mo ago
Meanwhile the African Americans at the Top 20% percentile of the income distribution have a higher arrest rate than white American's at the bottom 20th percentile.
Where could I find a source for this?
Obsidian
11mo ago
Look into ChatGPT plug-ins, tool-using AIs are already here and it's a matter of years before they're able to replace ~every mid-skill labor job, if not necessarily cost-effectively at first
Obsidian
1yr ago
Not only should you not get it, but strictly from a health outcomes perspective the effort you've spent asking the question was not worth it.
Obsidian
3mo ago
I need the same speech but spoken by a hotter guy so I can send it to my girlfriend.
(On second thought I'm going to speak these words to her myself instead of outsourcing my masculinity)
Obsidian
4mo ago
I don't think technocracy is once-in-a-generation hard, I just think our democracies are optimizing for something entirely incompatible
Obsidian
1yr ago
This is a fully general prediction for any technology.
Yes, it is in fact a political philosophy of technology. I'm still chasing literature support and context for it to be better able to communicate it, but at this point I'm pretty confident in it.
A late reply to @urquan on assisted suicide
A close family friend has Lou Gehrig's Disease. She cannot drink without choking, she cannot move through space without falling, she cannot manipulate objects. Her life is miserable, and every day that goes by she loses further capacities.
Her options are something as follow:
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Enlist the help of someone, potentially the state, to kill her within the next few weeks;
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Tough it out until the line on the graph for "care necessary to life" crosses the line for "care available from friends and family and oupatient caretakers", and allow herself to die of neglect - I'm guessing by suffocation, once her diaphragm stops working - within more or less the same timeline as the previous;
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Engage with the medical system, which will do its very best to keep her going, until even the best medical technology our public system can buy cannot keep her blood flowing, probably before Christmas this year, and she expires after spending her last few weeks highly medicated in a sterile white prison.
I understand what your Christian ethics say in general, as you have beautifully laid them out for us. But in the specifics, in full contact with reality, if this were you or your mother or your close family friend, what would you say or do? Where would your heart be?
Obsidian
3mo ago
It also makes such posts cattier, which is a disincentive in and of itself.
Obsidian
3mo ago
I’d say what distinguished the forum originally was more a commitment to free speech than to civility, though it had both of course.
In my mod days we experimented with keeping to a particular Overton window, above and beyond what was required to continue existing on reddit, in order to keep posters broadly comfortable. Drawing the line was frustrating and arbitrary and I hated doing it. Stuff like, don't insist on conspicuously misgendering trans posters, and don't lay 100% of the blame for any given issue on Mexicans/Jews/whatever. In any given specific situation we could have reasonably ruled in either direction, but if we'd radically committed to either free speech or civility the moderation would have become exploitable and the forum would have blown up.
I never connected the two usernames, but I did notice both were excellent posters. Welcome.
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