Dudeman112

You can't say something exists if you don't have a definition for it

I mean, you can. It's just gonna be a loose statement that doesn't bind states of the universe to any meaningful description

Just because you feel in your guts you have consciousness doesn't mean you have it

>seperate the fan fiction and maintain consistency during world building

Until even the original author retcons the heck out of their world and goes against established, explicit, well explained lore

Star Wars and the MCU are awful examples to use for the idea that canon can be used for consistency and authoritativeness

I made it up. It's an opinion

The latest commit where the master branch finds itself in isn't any more "true" or genuine than the first commit in history, nor the commits on a fork, nor the commit on branch-1, nor the commit on branch-2

If it's all fiction anyway there is no truth out there for the map to be compared against. All permutations are real, all maps are the territory

I do find it amusing, however, that depending on context people consider the first commit in history to be canon, while on other cases they prefer the newest commit approved by the Authority™

The whole idea of caring about "canon" is fundamentally bollocks anyway when it comes to stories

How many democratic governments are there if "if they want to do something they will and there’s nothing that can be done about it" can be used as a filter for not democratic?

Not that there is anything good about this proposed law, mind you :(

I'm reasonably sure that one doesn't refer to Trump

Pretty sure it's just a matter of having drawn the line of "proper behaviour" in a different place instead of not actually caring about enforcing proper behaviour

Most of the time the answer long term is "no" because as long as it's not a monopoly people will go to their competitors that aren't utter shite at what they do

You can always just off yourself if you don't like the life you have

Those of us who actually like the life they live would at least have the option of continuing that life

Whenever this is discussed, it always makes me wonder... Why? Just why?

SURELY just adding an option to use the damn textual "pick 1 for Blah, 2 for bleh..." would take no effort at all?

An alternative explanation: even if they did spend more time on the resumes they wouldn't be selecting better, because they don't know what to look for

Ah, the sheer ego size of hiring managers who go around saying stuff like "understanding how candidates think" or "assessing cultural fit"

The brightest minds of psychology - with far, far more resources and time - can't replicate those results if they run the tests this Monday or this Wednesday... and then comes the hiring manager and they say they can do it with a CV, some technical assignment, and an hour of chat. After having spent less time properly studying the topic than highschoolers spend on their homework each week

Tell that to the one that's experienced torture for a subjective amount of time that's equivalent to a thousand times the amount of time between the big bang and the heat death of the universe

It's one of the very, very few plausible "immortality would be a curse" scenarios out there, because "immortality" means forcibly experiencing things for a subjective amount of time that can be as big as it gets

It was a rebuttal against

>They mind it about as much as we do, judging by how hard they try to avoid it

If there's an example of something trying hard to avoid it that's clearly incapable of minding anything, then you cannot establish a certain link between the capacity of minding it and trying to avoid it

Bacteria also try really hard to avoid being harmed and killed, yet most people don't consider that sufficient for those living beings

To be fair, a large chunk of said billions of people's beliefs have infinite complexity compared to give or take every other alternative, and also imply that every law regarding the universe's behaviour is optional

That's more than enough to safely say that belief is full of shit. Unless it's a religion, then you have to respect it

Everywhere else "that belief goes against thermodynamics" is good enough argument to consider the belief bonkers

Ah, but in that case would they mind it being harsh, brutal, and short? Given the configuration of their mind's hardware

On a side note, I get the impression most people just don't have a gut instinct for just how awful natural life is like for the most part

Well, how much good has it done to be zealous about those things when someone offers an opinion to the contrary?

Ever managed to actually convert anyone back to sanity?

>Unless I’m missing something, it amounts to making a slave race out of someone’s mind scan

People most of the time have scope insensitivity, while sometimes it hits home

There is always death at a relatively soon point in the real world. The scan slave can be tortured with the worst methods you can think of for hundreds of thousands of relative millennia at will, and it will have happened countless times for different copies

You can always hang yourself if existence is pain in the real world, and if not... it will end up soon enough anyway. There is no such relief in the story

>You seem fairly convinced that one should adapt to local conditions and not doggedly stick to one of them

If there ever was an universal truth about any subject that's being dealt with by someone who knows even a little about said subject, it would be phrased approximately like that

"Don't be a zealot about $thing" shouldn't be considered a strong opinion

>but "never complicated to teach, once its time had arrived in the natural progression of the course"

Which is, of course, true for give or take all subjects out there

Yes

You can get there with a big document for a program that doesn't work

You can't get anywhere with a program that works and no document. You might get sales, but that's someone else's job

I certainly would have preferred just a big document instead of the code I was given on my current role

For most people it's not

The expression "privilege" itself makes people feel attacked and get defensive. If you say the same exact sentence replacing "privilege" for the definition and it greatly changes how people react to what you say

Here in England Vue also includes half an hour of ads before the movie starts

At least it seems to be consistent i.e. you can schedule to get in there 25 minutes late

Because the world has been so well run these last 50 years...

Masses of average people just go about their day afraid of doing anything that's not part of their routine

You should only be scared of them if some Big Idea(tm) has them under their thumb

Governments and big businesses are far more willing to be adversarial

I would imagine most jurisdictions have specific laws that apply to journalism and don't apply to regular people?

Generally speaking those 10k lines files are shit code, regardless of context

Generally speaking it's only Enterprise(tm) code that has miniscule (not small, miniscule) files with shit code

As long as it's good code, no one cares. If you aren't working on Enterprise(tm) code odds are every bad code you'll look at has way too many lines in the abstraction unit that is being used

What do you think was the probability of success before you set out to do it?

These kind of arguments would greatly benefit from people just saying what they think the actual number is

Being able to disregard everyone who thinks it's 1 or 0 is quite handy

>However, it also created the ability for humanity to destroy itself: the nuclear bomb, climate change, and plenty of other existential threats

Would it be better to not have any knowledge at all and be at the mercy of nature?

Acquiring power always comes together with the possibility of misuse. Maybe those who never got as far as we got would prefer to eventually get wiped out by nature (and it's gonna happen either way, what with the heat death and all that). I'd still prefer to have lived to know the electron than the alternative

He was arguing against someone who clearly thinks reality is nothing without divinity

For that person, it really is nothing