netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
If they’re coming to opposite conclusions, then I don’t see what makes you say they’re using the same calculus.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Sure they are. Some more than others.
You’re treating “cruelty-free” like it’s “vegan,” which has an obvious single condition to meet. But it’s more like “pescatarian,” an awkward wastebasket taxon that doesn’t quite match the literal name. It’s just that most people don’t bother distinguishing oysters from lobsters from tuna even though they are happy to draw the line at whales. We could add prefixes until we partitioned out the 12 principled pescatarians, but it is not generally considered relevant.
The partition for “Cruelty-free” means not complicit in a subset of acts which are considered cruel. It’s not exhaustive, and you can catch practitioners in weird edge cases. But 99% of the time you can get them to agree, hey, that thing they do to male chickens is in the “cruel” category, right? Then they’re supposed to avoid it.
How is this different from asking pescatarians if whales are fish?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
If I’m willing to pay $5 for a coffee, and someone else says it’s worth $100, why wouldn’t I think that person is misguided?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I don’t think this is true, but I suppose it’s rather hard to prove.
There’s no particular statement that crossed the line, but if I had to point to the biggest red flag, I’d blame the scare quotes.
Don't paraphrase unflatteringly. Don't imply that someone said something they did not say, even if you think it follows from what they said.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I’m not convinced that most people make decisions on that timescale.
It’s the kind of sentiment that convinced communists the world revolution was coming any…minute…now.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Probably not.
AI is on the part of the hype curve where it will get included in press releases for any and all reasons. If the news is bad, AI will be mentioned as a mitigation strategy. If it’s good, it becomes a growth plan.
My company had a little mini-reorg recently. It also consisted of shuffling some matrix management, and it also gave lip service to new AI tools. I hope no one expects a defense contractor to lead the charge in adopting AI-driven requirements.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I don’t know about you, but I have all sorts of preferences which don’t lead to minmaxing.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Oysters are particularly weird, to be honest. No brain! They just sort of stick around, filtering the water. Like plants, but meaty.
I don’t trust them.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I don’t care if they’re living. I care if they experience something that I would recognize as pain. The closer they get to having our sort of neurotransmitters or whatever, the more empathy I feel.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Surely aborting fetuses for having a trait has a different moral calculus than removing that trait while leaving the person otherwise intact?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
I think that level of imprecision is pretty darn normal when describing preferences. It’s not a technical term like “gluten-free” or “kosher.”
Hell, even the latter is subject to complex edge cases.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Excluded middle, no?
You can’t point to the most useful examples of suffering and conclude that all suffering must be at least as valuable.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Pretty much, except it’s neither silencing nor unjust.
You and Turok are welcome to state your true facts in a suitably polite, cooperative fashion.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Congratulations! You’ve advanced from lazy, uncharitable snarling at your enemies to. Uh. Marginally higher-effort snarling at the same people.
It doesn’t look like you are arguing to understand anything. It looks more like you’re picking fights. This is an immense pain in the ass and against various rules.
One week ban.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
specific niche
This weekend, I stumbled into a crossover post 1) between my favorite world-war-punk logistics MMO and 2) Steel Panzer. That wasn’t the weird part. Apparently the mod author had commissioned unit art from a Twitter artist with the following bio:
I may be drawing furries, femboys, NSFW, and guns. I realize some of you may not be comfortable with one of these.
I suspect—but I can never be sure—that the guns are supposed to be the dealbreaker. Twitter is a foreign country.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
That sounds either kickass or pornographic. I could believe both.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
If I were writing to a public forum, asking for advice about my lurid love affair, I’d take any opsec I could get.
I should probably do more here.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Hmm. It might be possible to get trendlines for something like CS2. But then, I understand valve has a long history of detection vs ban waves. It’d be very hard to measure.
Perhaps survey companies that sell cheats to try and keep skin in the game? I seem to remember seeing a retrospective from, like WoW gold farmers or something. You might be able to measure revenue vs. player base for a common game.
Intuitively, I doubt that video game cheating is worse today than it was in the mid-2000s era of PC CoD hackers and the like. Or the golden age of Minecraft servers, maybe.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Quoth Betteridge…
I’d like to see real data rather than relying on (years-old) reports from a notoriously punishing game.
I can’t say I understand the conflation of academic and game cheating, either. The dynamic is—or should be?—completely different.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
It was a neat article. I do think you’ve kind of missed the point. The twin studies are aren’t “wrong.” They replicate, their math works. But they don’t line up with these other studies which are supposed to measure the same thing. That could mean they’re wrong, or it could mean they aren’t actually measuring that thing.
materialism / genetic determinism
For example, these are not the same. Materialism supports models with irreducible randomness. We do not control enough of the inputs to be sure of every output. For the hard sciences, we’ve gotten reasonably certain in our models, but for genetics, there’s still plenty unexplained. The error bars are large.
beyond the mechanistic model
Into what? How could accepting dualism possibly improve this model?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
I don’t know who that is, I don’t recall modding him, and I can’t find your quote.
But that is beside the point. Whether or not a comment is inflammatory, when you reply, you have to follow the rules by explaining what you mean. A single word “what?” is insufficient. It strictly drags the conversation down further.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
Exactly. Maybe there’s something analogous in the way certain states recognize different corporate structures? There are only a few which allow forming anonymous LLCs.
Normally I like reading your legal dispatches, but I don’t see how these are fun at all!
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