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Hence piracy is the better option.

A wayland port of dwm exists- it's just that few people use wayland, so we never hear about it.

Everyone has the Ape right do kill themselves at any time. But you should really do it yourself. If we were more virtuous, there would be little need for these laws- or rather, those who need a man in a coat to tell them they're allowed to die are emotional children.

I would rather shoot myself or jump off a bridge than have some bored nurse kill me in the cleanest, most cost-efficient way possible.

Everyone has brain damage that accumulates over the course of your life. A 50-year old has a lot fewer brain cells than a 20-year old; I wonder what would happen if you regrew them?

That mental calcification, if it's so universal, seems like it's probably partly physiological in nature. It's the sort of thing that could be changed, in time, if people wanted to make themselves more or less neuroplastic.

It's just the equivalent of a consumer protection law: you have to sell people the software, not a build artifact.

There's clearly a qualitative difference between humans and our closest relatives. There's some axis on which humans are an outlier for life on earth. I mean, we're not worried about any other animal rising up and taking over, for one.

You're welcome to properly end your own fertility at any time. I quite like humans.

Better satellite internet helps people, I think. So do better cars, in principle.

Cheaper space access means every useful thing done in orbit becomes more accessible.

The latter is being used by elites as a justification to take resources from the plebes while maintaining their own quality of life. Celebrities taking private jets to climate conferences.

I could imagine someone who looked so much better while wearing glasses that "they're charming because of their glasses" is true.

Anyway, it seems much more likely that there would be a causative link between ADHD and creativity- e.g. some common underlying factor that boosts the explore tendency in explore/exploit along with openness to experience. A brain that naturally roams more could be expected to produce more novel syntheses.

A charity organization that converts 70% of the money you give it into e.g. saved human lives is better than one that converts 5%. EA was inspired by the observation that most people don't know where their money is going when they give it to charity.

You're welcome to downscale; china won't.

>you want your friends to be happy That's the assumption you're making!

There are costs and risks associated with subcontracting.

You never actually need 90% of the functionality a library gives, though... With some notable exceptions (cryptography). Most times I've excised a library I've only needed to implement a small part of what it did.

It's easier to just eat your competition's babies. That's the adaptation that evolved when scientists ran the limited-resources experiment with insects.

Keeping emergency stocks of rarely-used drugs is fine, but you don't have to make it illegal for anyone else to stock that drug to accomplish that.

Identifying yourself with your beliefs seems like a surefire way to stop you from changing your mind on things you might be wrong about. I think it's better to identify with something arbitrary and static, like your heritage/nationality/ethnicity/family. Your roots. That way the identity-seeking part of you has a nice, firm rock to hold on to, and you can freely evict ideas and beliefs that aren't effectively predicting your experiences - without destroying your self-identity.

Belief-as-identity strikes me as really pernicious. It's a big problem people have with religions with orthodoxy like Christianity or Islam; these systems sustain themselves in part by training people to tie their sense of self to a particular belief about the nature of god/the universe.

Identifying as an Atheist, or Liberal, or a Conservative, or anything just lets that thing get its hooks into you. I'd like to be able to drop and change my political beliefs if it turns out I'm wrong about which form of economics leads to the greatest amount of human flourishing, for example. Each individual ideological meme, in contrast, really wants you to build it into your self-identity, to spread its roots so deep that to extricate it would be spiritual suicide. All beliefs 'want' this, and while it's impossible to not be a slave to some meta-meta-meme, you can at least not be a memetic zombie for some object-level one! If a belief stops paying rent in useful predictions, I want it evicted, out on the street!

Loyalty to people, not ideas.

The path to responsibility can't be chains

Good; natural ecosystems re a moral hazard, anyway- a giant, self-perpetuating torture dungeon. If somebody created predator species, or botflies, or ringworms, you'd have them executed for crimes against nervous systems. I vote, then, to execute natural selection. It's our duty to save all living things capable of pain from their fates.

Our natural place in the ecosystem involves being parasitized by a dozen kinds of horrific worms and predated on by lions. No, thank you.

Don't worry- Russia has a vested interest in warming the earth a bit, so they'll put out CO2 to counteract the cooling.

They have lead, etc. In them. If not properly recycled (they won't be) that'll end up in the environment. And they cover up and mar the beauty of the land. Maybe that's fine if you live next to a desert.

I would pay more to not cover everything in toxic crap.

Maybe permitting shouldn't take 5 years?

Give it a generation, and the new norm will be that video on the internet is as likely to be a lie as text.

Then Rick ought to release the video of his boss fucking that zebra!

Everything is horrifically slow.