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The more I think about this poison thing the less sense it makes, if you tell someone not to eat poison because it will hurt them you either need to tell them what things are poiso…

> you're confusing principle with quantitative absolute I really don't think I am, I'm trying to tell you that you keep referencing subjective values as if they can be assessed obj…

The problem is that someone is trying to claim they know what benefits my existence. I don't have confidence that I know exactly what benefits my existence so the fact that someone…

> objective requirements of how individual maximally live. What is it "to live"? Even more of a mystery is what is it to "maximally live"? You are reducing all of life to a single …

Not sure how you can define productive action other than to say it's action that moves the universe towards a state that is desired. Desire arises from our values and a moral actio…

Be careful how much credit you give them, I find they often speak with great confidence about things they clearly know nothing about.

Becoming multiplanetary IS handling it, just not in a necessarily "ideal" way. The problem is that we don't want to have the reset button hit and have every human in existence set …

Somebody should tell this guy lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19895407

You are struggling with this because believing there is no difference between the mental characteristics of men and women on average is to be in denial of reality. I think maybe th…

As a musician, the reactions to almost every post on hacker news involving music ends up both cracking me up and serving as a healthy reminder of the arrogance and hubris around he…

Interesting! Although I don't think this means I'm completely wrong, just that there are "true/full violet" values that we can't see that would make the semi-circle that is visible…

My completely made up intuitive understanding of it is that it's the same as musical pitches; there are many versions of each named pitch e.g A through G that are each an "octave" …

I'm getting really tired of seeing this argument at the top of every single thread about a UBI experiment, as if: 1. There are no other concerns that we can gather info about besid…

> "When you’re young, you want things: work, love, children. When you reach middle age, you want to want things. When you’re depressed, you no longer want anything. It's funny that…