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m0darn , to 196 in That feeling when even Elon Musk thinks you're insufferable

The person you asked your question of claims to be a biologist, but you dismiss the relevance of biology.

...basing on biology is clearly flawed...

It sounds like you might be more interested in an answer from a sociologist. Or are you asking the biologist to argue that basing it on biology is not flawed?

m0darn , to solarpunk memes in How is the hydrogen made?

Using hydrogen doesn't emit carbon. But the principal way hydrogen is produced is called steam reformation. It's a process that turns methane (CH4) and water (2* H2O) into hydrogen (4* H2) and CO2 (i think, I'm not an expert). So all the carbon get emitted as co2. So it's not better, and there are a bunch of inefficiencies too. (The reformation process itself, and transportation challenges, and leakage). But theoretically, it does centralize the emissions which would make them easier to sequester so there's that.

m0darn , to Comic Strips in XXX

We don't have to. If one social group defines it differently then another social group it's not really a big deal.

m0darn , to Comic Strips in XXX

Genres are a social construct.

m0darn , to 196 in stop doing rule

You're probably aware of this inherent contradiction by for the sake of any third parties reading:

TotallynotJessica is advocating for virtue, contract, and rule based ethical paradigms based on the hypothesis that they will, in general, more effectively lead to outcomes preferred by utilitarianism.

I think this contradiction is only important to people that are entrenched on one side or the other (or the other, or the other). For people that just want to understand how to make good decisions in their lives it's a bit of a moot point.

m0darn , to 196 in stop doing rule

It took a while to type this out so the commenter above may have already responded but:

I think their point is for example: in the scenario with Sally's father's nuclear bomb

It's constructed to have people evaluate the extremities of their moral convictions. Some philosophers argue that it is never moral to lie or to break a promise. Some argue that it's never moral to torture a person. I reckon the thought experiment is designed to get people to consider whether torture is actually absolutely morally wrong.

What I think the commenter above you was saying is: In reality, how could we become convinced this scenario was unfolding before us. What experiences could a person actually have that would give them adequate confidence in the story to actually decide that it was justified to torture Sally.

Like if a person walked up to you on the street IN REAL LIFE and said:

My name is Sally, and I promised my father not to tell anyone where he had buried an atomic bomb that will kill 1 million people when it explodes in half an hour, but I concede I would be convinced to break my promise through torture.

Would you feel justified in torturing her? What if you were the chief of police? I hope you don't think so, because this is clearly a person having delusions related to some form of a psychotic episode.

Even if she was telling the truth and you did succeed in torturing the information out of her, how quickly could you do it, and how quickly could you act on the information in a way that would save lives?

Actual real world moral reasoning must account for people's skepticism of the premises of the thought experiment.

If we're trying to construct some sort of useful ethical system, it has to accommodate the uncertainty humans have to navigate. This is probably why the classic trolley problem is so divisive. Some people are intuitively accounting for their uncertainty in the premise's stated 'known' outcomes.

m0darn OP , to Selfhosted in noob hardware question

Okay, I think $80 Canadian for a case, psu, mobo, cpu, & ram is sounding pretty reasonable. I just don't know of its enough processing power for the video stuff. But I guess if not I can upgrade the mobo/cpu or add a graphics card.

Thanks, that channel looks great.

Re offsite backup: Yes I don't have so many family photos that it will be difficult/ expensive to store online. But I need to get them together first.

m0darn OP , to Selfhosted in noob hardware question

I don't have a computer with a bluray drive, only laptops.

m0darn , (edited ) to Memes in yea

The Pope is woke! Gender ideology IS toxic.

We should support the catholic church in their initiative to reform their sexist gender roles.

I'm impressed the patriarch of Rome is so invested in dismantling the patriarchy.

... wait that's not what he means? He supports highly defined gender roles? What a toxic ideology.

m0darn , to 196 in went to my first protest today :33

I live in Canada and there is a university professor that had police visit his house because he took some pictures of an oil project that was being protested while he was on a walking trail near the university.

It was an interview on the cbc several years ago. He was a prof at SFU, I assume it was the trans mountain pipeline expansion.

m0darn , to Technology in Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort

Shifts team to generative AI.

If your car development team can be transferred to AI developement you weren't building much of a car.

m0darn , to Memes in Preferring X

Oh the injustice of people opting for a different meme template!

m0darn , to Mildly Infuriating in People using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'

Yeah the inconsistencies are interesting.

Is it because of the "than"? Do we just not like saying "fewer than"? Because it wouldn't offend my ear to hear "we need less than 5 chairs", but "we need less chairs" is outrageous to me, (for less than however many chairs it takes for them to become dequantized) [I did it again there, did you notice?]

Or maybe it's to do with the minutes being a quantization of something continuous, whereas usually we deal with the transition the other way.

"couches vs. furniture" couches are discrete, furniture is discrete things as a collective.

"time vs minutes" time is continuous, minutes are a quantization of it. That is a difference compared to couches/ furniture. How do we talk about other quantizations of continuous?

Distance: how far is it? Less than 5 miles. Maybe it's an acknowledgement of the fact that we talk about miles but inherently understand that distance isn't countable.

Oops that used "than" again. Uhhh... "the battery in my electric car is degraded so I get 10 less miles per charge". Hmm I'm not sure if that sounds right....

m0darn , to Technology in The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse

I'm a little surprised we haven't seen licensed deep fake pornography.

Like from an actor that doesn't get numbers acting anymore but has (or had) sex appeal (in their prime).

Pam Anderson?

Maybe it's because of copyright/consent for the other dataset.

m0darn , to Memes in Important distinction

Ironic.

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