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Inflating is such a cool idea, it'd work for any 3D shape I can think of. If keeping air pressure is an issue, that might be resolved by making the sheet rigid once deployed. Are t…

It keeps getting recommended on HN - should there be a book club?

Ive been wanting a syntax-tree-viewer for months, to help me learn functional languages where figuring out what is even going on syntax-wise in the exmaples provided by tutorials k…

It's besides the point, but a slight correction: you wouldn't assume someone's preferred pronouns from details about their genitals (it'd be offensive to ask or try to check!), but…

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Those two books came to me at a time when I was very receptive to and in need of their messages, and I'm still digesting them a year later. Very short, highly recommended to anyone…

It's so weird. I think that sometimes, but I don't usually think about it. Most of the time it's just a short moment "awake" and aware that all of this is batshit absurd, then reco…

Is this an example of federation?

It works for me on Firefox on Android. The color wheel thing is sticky while the rest of the content is not. The wheel changes to illustrate each new example as they're scrolled pa…

It's lightness and weight, as in Kundera's 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'. Lightness is nice, it's comfortable, but vertigo inducing. So we also long for weight sometimes.

Adrian Chaikovsky's Children of Time explores similar topics. I recommend it, it's alright and the ideas are cool.

What type of discipline do you mean? The self discipline to behave in a way that enables you to live a good life? Or external discipline that makes you behave in a way (not necessa…

I'm guessing it's irrational as in rational vs irrational numbers. Rational means a fraction of whole numbers, so irrational numbers are those which cannot be represented as such a…

Those additional lives are hypothetical and in the future, and maximizing the number of humans alive might not be the right thing to do. IMO this is one of the really juicy questio…

> You can't really boil down trolley problems into "Would you kill x or y?". Thoughts on why you can't? I think you can and must .

Multi track drifting to maximize kill count?

My worst enemy is the side of me that constantly doubts and berates me. But I guess I should accept that it's just trying to protect me and I needed it in the past but now I need s…

It's soooo sloooow. But yeah it's nicely done

If you were a monkey, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a monkey? Or equivalently, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a robot that's twice as sentient as the a…

That's just a description of normal life though. We must imagine trolleyphus happy. Unless "eternal" means immortality, in which case it's even better than life!

The stuff of nightmares, or an encouragement of bravery to do the right thing regardless of the ambiguousnes and uncertainty? A bit of both, for me.

A trolley problem is going uncontrollably down the tracks. Do you pull a lever to intentionally derail it, or let it pass without consequence? /s

I have no savings, but that's probably cheating. I know I'd sacrifice your life savings in a heartbeat, does that count? ;)

"you" are not the thoughts and emotions that happens to reside in some sack of meat. Or at least that's not a complete picture. In some sense "ask not for whom the bell tolls; it t…

My gut reaction was to kill the rich person. I justify it like this: a world where well-being is decided by wealth is unjust and undesirable, so trying to enjoy your privilege is a…