dragonfly
22d ago
I think generally "harmful to society" is understood to mean "would be better for society if they hadn't been made". For it to be tautological you'd have to mean "contracts which are more harmful to society than the harm incurred by breaking them" and that is, I think, harder to demonstrate. The whole issue with, eg, student loan forgiveness, is that it incentivises people to choose based on the short term consequences, expecting they can always renegotiate at government-point the long-term consequences later.
dragonfly
24d ago
Is this like "The US bans hard drugs because they can't compete with Colombia"?
dragonfly
1mo ago
worried about rogue ai paperciip maximizers
I always joked (in person) about them creating God in their own image.
The only real difference between a paperclip maximiser and a corp is speed, anyway. (Granted it's a huge difference)
dragonfly
1mo ago
If it helps, it's more like 30-40 hours. I don't know if you'll "get your shit totally rocked" though -- I think some of the reception is due to lowish expectations (previously unknown studio etc), but it's definitely a fun time.
dragonfly
1mo ago
I often just leave my phone in another room and that solves that.
That said, I work in front of a screen all day with little supervision and tonnes of microwaits where the computer is slow than me by between 5 seconds and 5 minutes, so it's easy to get distracted with stuff I don't endorse. On the other hand at least it's usually the Motte or longer Youtube videos, rather than more heavily Now, This content.
dragonfly
1mo ago
Looking at social media, I predict the "AI-vulnerable" will be the massively larger group. Maybe the inability to even pretend there's a human connection will put people off, but I'm not counting on it.
dragonfly
1mo ago
It's unclear why you think they wouldn't be able to use a slogan. I feel like rebranding to "Open Ideas" will take significantly more effort than for an empty dismissal slogan countering it to spread. "Open Ideas doesn't mean Hate Speech" or whatever sticks.
dragonfly
1mo ago
I would want to see them, of course, as a matter of due diligence. But I think for me "no credit score" is the highest possible credit score. Then again most things about the US feel slightly dystopian to me.
dragonfly
1mo ago
My general recommendation for YouTube recommendations is use your adblocker to hide the recommendations entirely. If you want to watch something on YouTube you can search for it. If YouTube wants you to watch something, why should you care?
dragonfly
1mo ago
Leaving aside all the other issues with that tweet (which I'm not accusing you of endorsing) -- which is the third "extremely violent shooting and firearms simulator with graphic imagery"? Garry's Mod? VR Chat? Is Dick suggesting he learned to use a rifle from Hearts of Iron?
dragonfly
1mo ago
I do think talk therapy, etc, have a place as a first-line intervention and everyone is too quick to jump to puberty blockers/HRT, but ultimately I agree with you: estradiol worked, the other things didn't.
I even had reason recently to stop it for a while which seemed like a good chance to test if it was still necessary or whether the other changes were enough. Sure enough, things were terrible again (long after the period where the hormone changes had largely settled down).
My position is that it's kind of like chemo: it may not solve things and dear God don't do it if you don't have the relevant issue, but if it works it's invaluable.
dragonfly
1mo ago
(Not the GP) "Ah yes, the fourth stage of grief: construction." made me giggle.
EDIT: I do think the "MAGA trying desperately to pin it on anyone else" bit is misinformation and pretty reprehensible, but not cancellable.
dragonfly
1mo ago
He went on to say of Rittenhouse: "I guess he was in very big trouble. He would have been — I — he probably would have been killed."
The president correctly describes some minor details about that night.
dragonfly
1mo ago
how disconnected their research is from real-world applications.
I don't think it's about real-world applications so much as in the sense of “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
It doesn't matter if you pass a law saying that pi should be 3, or write a very well-written and persuasive paper, or murder your co-worker and throw them off a boat.
dragonfly
1mo ago
transgender care is fameously done without it he applications of meatcleavers to genitals, and other body parts.
The vast majority of trans healthcare doesn't involve surgery of any kind. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the side effects of circumcision don't include infertility.
dragonfly
1mo ago
I predict that the constant drumbeat of "trans bad" will continue to work until parents feel secure that government force is not going to shut them out of medical decisions relating to their children.
dragonfly
2mo ago
The number on the credit card (something you know), the other number on the credit card (something you know), the smartphone app connected to the bank (something you have[conditions apply]), and the pin number (something you know but enter into an entirely different system from the CC/CVV, the compromise of those two probably being heavily correlated).
dragonfly
2mo ago
Back in my day it was a word to mock people who were so unique and special that they had to make up their own term for their sexuality etc to include in their long list of labels.
(Back in my actual day people made up their own music genres not gender identities.)
dragonfly
2mo ago
I've spent a lot of time joking about that, but I regret to inform you that they're not p-zombies since the definition requires external indistinguishability from people who do have internal experiences. (My partner gets mad at my mostly-joking position of "If people tell you they don't have internal experiences, believe them." -- then again she's a utilitarian and I'm a virtue ethicist or something. Even if no-one but me was conscious it wouldn't impact my moral reasoning much).
dragonfly
2mo ago
I'm not sure there any any offline very progressive spaces, at least not ones where the most active individual members aren't very online and setting the tone for the space, at least not around these parts. But that may well be a filter bubble thing.
I've dropped in on various mostly-offline trans groups, but the offline ones usually skew older and not especially progressive. (Snarkily, they probably have more in common with the prostate cancer support group they share a medication with, than with trans people who know what Discord is).
dragonfly
2mo ago
I count two, maaaaybe three, factors. Entering two passwords in the same form is definitely not 2FA.
dragonfly
2mo ago
As a trans person in a more normie space (ie mostly offline), my vote is the more progressive the space the worse the mental health (but then, I rather would say that). Causality seems to go both ways, though.
Actually, leave the trans bit out and I'll happily stand behind "In my experience people in more normie spaces have better mental health than those in very progressive spaces, ceteris paribus." Not as sure about "very (online) progressive vs very online right" though -- I suspect "very online" is doing most of the heavy lifting there, in the same way "people in an cult" presumably have worse mental health than normies for basically any x[citation needed]. And obviously this is just my personal experience.
dragonfly
2mo ago
I know the idea has been discussed here before that when women compare themselves to men they're only looking at the most successful/attractive x% with the rest basically invisible. I could see that skewed comparison making transition look more appealing, for sure.
For what it's worth I do remember back in the day in MtF trans spaces there used to be pushback like "You're not gonna be a young attractive woman; you should decide about transition based on your feelings about being a wrinkled old woman vs a wrinkled old man." No idea if that still goes on. I rather suspect not.
I have the vague recollection that the only coherent interpretation of the final explanation of 999 is that the villain did everything due to a misunderstanding of the rules/universe the game operates in, which was amusing but narratively unsatisfying and inspired a couple of irl rants.
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