pusher_robot
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pusher_robot
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1d ago
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Anti-datacenter sentiment is being astroturfed by Elon Musk, who stands to profit via space-based AI service delivery more than he loses via increased training costs for Grok
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pusher_robot
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1d ago
Is that actually true? The premise does not necessarily imply the conclusion. For example even today, animal ownership is legal, but it is not legal to rape (or torture) animals.
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1d ago
I think 2001: A Space Odyssey is particularly interesting as an example of a movie and novel that were co-written simultaneously, so neither is directly an adaptation of the other.
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2d ago
It's a simple logical extension of the principle. In logical terms:
Do unto others → done unto you.
By modus ponens, harm unto others → harm unto you.
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2d ago
I believe in punishment for deterrence and prevention.
I believe in punishment for punishment's sake. It is a necessary component of justice and a simple extension of the golden rule: as a person harms another, so too they also shall be harmed. I find that a lot of people express a belief that punishment is a vicious necessity, to be minimized whenever and wherever possible and used only to the extent needed to serve other material ends (especially with respect to women). I don't agree with this at all, and I think it undermines the goal of justice to eliminate righteous punishment for the guilty.
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3d ago
This could be a mostly unconscious rationalization. E.g., the id desperately wants to kill, the superego knows it is terrible, and the ego resolves the conflict by manufacturing a convenient rationalization, which becomes fact in the conscious mind.
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3d ago
Or, she was never actually going to do it and seized upon that as the best self-justification for inaction. Just like all those people totally, seriously, for-real are joining the gym this week - until completely unexpectedly, something came up which made it too inconvenient.
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5d ago
This video explained to me in a concrete way why the intervals defined by the 12-note scale actually do sound more harmonious on common physical instruments, and why less common instruments don't work as well in that scale, which is something I always noticed about the tubular bells or carillon.
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5d ago
Hiking several miles through a blizzard to sit at the fireplace at a cozy pub with a pint or a highball.
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5d ago
I think this is a common problem with first-person narratives, at least for myself. I find a character with what I consider to be annoying quirks a lot more annoying when they are also the narrator. I feel that the third person narration puts a little more distance between myself and even the protagonist, so I don't feel the same way I do when someone is saying cringeworthy stuff to me in a real life conversation.
No, the opposite will happen. You will have larger capital investments to pay off and a snake customer base to do so, so rates will go up. Saw this happen locally - when the big factory which used a large percentage of municipal water production shut down, water rates went way up. Eventually they will downsize but until then the bonds need to be paid and a larger-than-necessary facility needs to be operated.
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