sun
1yr ago
Well, go ahead. You are making theists sound pretty unappealing as people, though, I must say.
sun
1yr ago
The sandbox game in this scenario is all I have, pretty good, and I don't remember ever not playing it. Why wouldn't I act as if it's the only thing that matters?
sun
1yr ago
Ah, no, if I could enact government coercion to force everyone to pick blue I would be a tyrant and wouldn't be particularly trust-building but it'd be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't do it if I wasn't confident I can coerce 50%+ of all pollsters, so the "unnecessary risk" part rings hollow to me. The unnecessary risk in that case would be refraining from coercion.
sun
1yr ago
If the vote is mandatory, why would I vote against blue provided I think blue is winning anyway? Some sense of contrarianism? To show FarNearEverywhere on the internet that I'm not a sheep nanny virtue signaler but instead an enlightened rational lifemaxxer?
sun
1yr ago
How dare those people believe that picking the option that keeps 100% of participants alive is superior! Nannies! Smarms!
Have you ever entertained a thought that not everything others do is for your approval?
sun
1yr ago
The original question does not assume campaigning. How many beloved family members will you be afraid for as you sit in safety having picked red?
sun
1yr ago
And I'd still rather have such choices be up to them rather than oh so rational, so actually prosocial, so non-virtue-signalling Mottizens.
sun
1yr ago
But I do not want the "agreement breaker" to suffer in the red pact world, precisely because the breach obviously doesn't benefit them and doesn't harm me, realistically it could only happen by mistake or insanity.
If I can be confident that a pact works (50%+ keep it), I want the pact to be blue. If I can't, I'll pick red whatever the actual agreement was.
sun
1yr ago
No, if I can communicate, I will communicate that we should all pick blue and then everyone will live.
sun
1yr ago
So 65% of Twitter are cooperatebots who don't think rationally about the specifics of the choices presented? Could be worse. I for one am thankful for such people because in real life "just save yourself bro" isn't always possible.
sun
1yr ago
This just sounds like Russian army hazing but formalized. I'm not convinced that they'll be particularly inclined to do anything like "pull their punches". Instead, the average instinct is to get the new guy to suffer at least as much as you did, which naturally results in decreasing restraint over time.
sun
1yr ago
Mentality isn't really metaphysical. It is not a novel idea that the way people think is based on the way their youth went and is slow to change afterwards.
sun
1yr ago
There's no such thing as the grand scheme of things. We are our own infinities of the highest order.
sun
1yr ago
Yes. Do you believe it makes no sense?
"You can receive X benefit but only after an unpleasant process, which itself serves partly as deterrent to prevent frivolous abuse" is not without precedent.
sun
1yr ago
"Some bad habits" sounds like putting it very lightly, if this example of Ngo's reporting is indicative of a pattern.
sun
1yr ago
Suicide wasn't really as accepted historically either, with Christianity threatening you with hell for it and all. And anyway, even if the entire 0,5% of trans people really have been committing suicide, would it really be traceable on the historical level? We didn't have big data back then.
sun
1yr ago
Assuming you don't mean room temperature IQ nonfunctional people - dumb people (and a good amount of smart people who couldn't find a cushy job) flip my burgers, serve my coffee, clean my environment, make my clothes, grow my food, deliver my food, drive me to work... the list can go on. They do all that shit I wouldn't want to do, especially not for the money they get for it. None of the "vast economic benefits" of smart people would be worth a spit if there wasn't someone doing the work.
sun
1yr ago
It's a whole new poem if the translation is decent, and if you do not know the language of the original, why not?
sun
1yr ago
Women object to dick pics because they find most of them unsexy, not because they find them too sexy to function.
sun
1yr ago
I'm not stopping you from retiring to your cabin in the woods where you can bask in the absence of civilization all you want, while you don't seem to be satisfied unless everyone is plunged there along with you. I find your way far more imposing on freedom.
Unfortunately if you did practice what you preach you wouldn't be able to prove it because you wouldn't have network.
You're doing some funky stuff with the definition of motivation. Your promised, never-seen pleasure in heaven is Deep and Meaningful because it won't end, while mine quite obviously existing pleasure on Earth is shallow and hedonistic, is that what you're trying to say?
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