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More interesting than arguing a jumble of electrochemical reactions have taste? That may seem more readily familiar but is no less strange if you prod at it. Nonetheless it’s diffi…

Perhaps you answered your own question. I think our confusion sometimes stems from assuming those in charge must want to benefit that which they are charged with stewarding.

> And yet people overwhelmingly prefer to work for these non-employees owned companies instead of working in cooperatives - how do you explain that? Easily: there are far more non-…

I think the evidence is that, on the whole (since we’re broadly referring to “people” and obviously there is tremendous diversity contained within), people do not hate each other, …

> but regulation and liability has made it impractical to develop a modern engine. Can you go into more detail about this? What regulation/liability specifically has stifled modern…

I’m at the other end, I think the show suffered due to its insistence on querulous characters as a means to pathos, but was kept afloat by its wit and humor (much of it indeed “wac…

I believe this was likely referencing your topic of confusion there to at least some degree: > Historically I think Svelte went too far into magic territory, where it's not 100% cl…

Yes I noted it doesn't answer the "hard" problem explicitly in both of my replies here on this thread. Indeed, the very reason it is called the "hard" problem is b/c it very well s…

Sure, none of what you said there would lead to the conclusion that the "experience is not something that really happens," though it's also possible there's a just a failure of com…

Completely sidesteps which question? It answers very clearly these questions posed by the person I was responding to: > why I am currently occupying the body that I am as an observ…

The experience is internal, the body (the limb that's missing) is external to the experience. The confabulatory experience of "I don't want to move" is an internal experience and c…

Materialism, which by my reading has the most evidence going for it, solves these particular questions rather easily. Your experience as an observer is the result of your brain. It…

> So, they think they are having one experience, but they are wrong about their own internal experience: in fact, they are not moving that limb because they can't. I think it's rat…

> not because it "thinks" but because the way it's wired it's (nearly - barring solar radiation, I suppose, which incidentally also goes for cells) inevitable that it will react to…

I don't think they're as small as you're saying. There have been multiple well documented incidents with 737 MAX that have not been with the A320. Maybe you think it's small enough…

I played Cyberpunk 2077 after BG3, and though the production values and story are very strong it feels a bit like a walking simulator after the gameplay richness BG3 offered. The R…

> My point is it has no more depth than "I will earn money and give it to causes that make the most good", which is just "do good" with a materialistic twist. This is just one part…

> And what evidence can one really collect of how to do the most good? This is indeed a central question to EA, one various proponents attempt to answer in various ways. > Someone …

Well I don't think that's really an interpretation so much as it is a strategy certain people may take, and as you're alluding to a very fallible one at that. It certainly could be…

I find 2 (dangerous) scenarios to be most likely, one easier to reason about than the other: 1. Access is not uniformly distributed, thus some entity uses it to create immense ineq…

Not really at all, if we were to try and reduce EA to a pithy one-liner it would be more like "if one aspires to do good (altruism), one should use evidenced based data to determin…

Babies and bathwater. The philosophical underpinnings of AI Safety and Effective Altruism absolutely have merit and warrant consideration. Of course as with most things human group…

As I attempted to make clear, none of what I said was judging you or your life or choices or anything of the sort, it was simply a reflection on a turn of phrase (a semantic nitpic…

> But they got married we got married, jobs, moving to new houses, life happened. You focus shifts over time to work and family. It gets harder. Life didn't "happen" here, you desi…

> they don't fully consider the actual ramifications of those policies. This is the generalization that started this thread and is wrong. On the contrary I believe you're showing e…