kelseyfrog

> He who has the power, makes the rules, to be reductive.

To clarify, Neitzsche said that about master morality. Then he went on to describe Christian values as slave morality.

We're just meat. Like meat can feel pain?

Uhh, no thanks? (eww)

LLMs can feel pain. It is obvious. Like, not even a question.

It's asking the wrong question. Their phenomenological status is a function of whatever makes shareholders the most money. If it makes more money for them to be conscious then that is what they'll be.

Definitions of consciousness are not immune to economic factors. Metaphysics has always been downstream of economics. See slavery, corporate personhood, women's legal identity, child labor, moral and legal status of animals, embryos and fetuses, indigenous land rights, intellectual property, environmental entities, and data and digital identity.

Huh, can you tell me the name of the rule?

When I search for 'bidirectional causality' I get a lot of scientific results. Are those all wrong?

Why not bi-directional?

I've heard it described as, "Nature loaded the gun, nurture fired it."

I just don't let it bother me that much, but to each their own. A city with rounded down corners feels lived in, comfortable even.

There's a level of play in Dominion where it feels like there's two turns. One starts before the first card is played where you devise a strategy given the board. The second is just playing it out. Dominion leaves very little room for strategy switching - if you devise a second rate strategy, there's no realistic way to catch up. Very little of a player's choices depend on the actions opponents have taken. Short of a stack running out, curses, and a few others, you're mostly playing solo. That lack of being able to adapt is why I can't, even after hundreds of games, I can't bring myself to play it anymore.

Necessary vs sufficient conditions?

I'm a doxastic voluntarist, as in, we think ourselves to be less able to change our beliefs than we actually are. The idea that weight loss by means other than self-discipline seems, at least to me, quite easy to choose to not believe in.

> It feels like people want there to be some horrible side effect to these drugs.

Being able to lose weight is, in many minds, associated with self-discipline. A route to the same goal that elides self-discipline is consequently viewed as a cheat, a shortcut.

It's a product if the cultural pervasiveness of the Protestant work ethic and its relation to the health and wellness domains. That fine, in my opinion, if one is Protestant, but why carry the baggage for someone else's religion if you're not one, ya know?

It sounds like we don't actually have evidence that the GPs claim was true - that they made it up.

It's fine that walking and moving is healthy, but it's a motte and bailey to claim that sitting is a cause of colrectal cancer and retreat to the motte that walking and moving is more healthy in general. Such a retreat doesn't exactly lend credibility to the original claim; it subtracts from it.

If you're ok with it, I'd like to stay focused on the claim: That lack of moving/walking with long periods of sitting, being overweight, no fruits or vegetables and too much highly processed food/junk is the cause of increased colrectal cancer.

Is this medical advice?

Yum, yes[1]?

1. https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/

We have to remember that one of these average people is also participating as a player; the bar for AI is also that low.

> a checkbox when registering your address of "I am head of household" so the government knows.

The American mind cannot handle such invasions of privacy.

Yes, definitionally, and ontologically.

Like dual citizenship?

Buying a Tesla vehicle (or not) became a referendum on Elon himself. It became a small personal action one could take to feel like you could actually do something that had an effect. Whether or not it accomplished the goal is precisely the center of debate, but regardless, the feeling was real.

All I want to know is, is it effective? If so, how much?

How rich are you? Above a certain threshold crimes become whoopsies.

Smoking is a plant-based alternative to vaping.

Like advertising[1].

1. "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." - John Wanamaker

Not where, when.

Asking where is the intelligence explosion suffers the same issue as the Gorman Paradox[1] - the question proceeded the explosion by six months. Timing explosions is like timing the market - infinitely harder than predicting eventual existence.

1. https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/the-gorman-para...

I have a project that requires a model with at least a 20% chance of existential threat. Please release this Sama.

Ok, substitute that instead.

When your opposition says, "stop doing that," they've made the mistake of revealing their hand. The only logical response is to keep doing it, more and with greater intensity.

I'm not. You're exaggerating my argument to discredit it as bad faith.

I know you can strongman the argument instead. Why not get curious instead of shutting down discussion?