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Surely what benefits someone is downstream of their preferences (including moral preferences) and not of some objective measure of what other people might like?

I can't believe that we've managed to escalate past seeing parents as negligent for letting their kids walk home from school or play outside. Is this the new normal? You are neglig…

> assume intent is malicious, ignorant, or amoral > do not grant grace to those who make mistakes, especially those that you have never met or otherwise spoken to > do not seek to …

Congress (plausibly) beats the market: https://www.ft.com/content/14339d5b-5a5f-4e4a-8293-ff3a2e25d... Pelosi has made many suspicious trades: https://insider-trading.org/the-nancy…

Responsibility is to those that give status. Duty of the pro-social sort is what you buy status (regard) with. Neither subjective or consensus accounts of truth (neither of which c…

Of course you don't get it: you're not autistic. Did you expect to get it? There's what's that quote about good art disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed. Eating …

Yup, these people are perfectly fine. They don't need to identify each other and band together. No one is targeting them[0]. They need to stop making mountains out of molehills[1].…

Pricing in externalities (such as national defense impact) is a basic function of economic policy. I searched 'economics 101 strategic industries' and found this[1] within 30s whic…

The past challenges are available too: https://dyalog.com/apl-challenge.htm I found working through them was helpful when learning K, and comparing the solutions to other languages…

i2p could be an option

I was making the deontological argument because I assumed that was the meta-ethical framework you were using, which can be extended by just saying "abiding by moral commitments and…

Federal employees swear a constitutional oath that supersedes presidential order and they have civil service protections beyond what most workers have available. Many are in unions…

The technique might have 'merely' prevented deep sleep due to interruptions; similar to why uberman[1] doesn't work. When I was younger I stayed up to see what happens. The worst e…

The thing being pathologized here - gender fluidity - is at its heart nothing more than willful insubordination. Hate doesn't require anger, and control isn't love.

Wow what a blast from the past. Sounds like /r/Tulpas. I've always thought it was a purely rhetorical trick + disassociation, and obvious what is happening and why. Sleep deprecati…

Making excuses for abuse is just as unhealthy as seeing it everywhere. I have been diagnosed both autistic and adhd and I experienced food insecurity despite living in a house with…

Fascism's power is situated on lying to a 'chosen majority' and telling them they are special, unique, destined for greatness, etc. (often by simultaneously giving them insecurity …

I call it a kink because I attract women with the kink. I'm referring to pragmatics not semantics; the use of dictionary definitions is a category error. No, I was not bullied. Peo…

(Dominance-related) insecurity is being pathologically averse to being seen as weak, which leads to preferring dominance as form over dominance as function. If the meek hippie gets…

These are positive feedback loops. Perhaps "anti-social runaway" would be a good description.

Suppose a model of reality M (which makes predictions) and doesn't admit a higher metaphysical plane as part of the model. Now assume Mp does admit a higher metaphysical plane and …

The crux is the word 'I'. When I say 'I' think, do I mean the conscious part of me which has direct experience of that thinking? If so, then I am denying all the of the thinking th…

Whether it matters if attackers control filenames depends on the threat model. I can think of a few where it doesn't matter. One example: you provide managed web application hostin…

People with obsessive tendencies may believe (less than consciously) that avoiding mistakes is the only way they can be loved but that it is okay because they can become perfect 'e…