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Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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I don't care. The cat was probably put down painlessly at a vet. I don't see the issue at all. Let's not do these cancelling attempts.

Having an animal killed for no good reason, other than it caused you problems, is a bit twisted. In situations like this, rehoming them is the ethical thing to do.

This is literally saying 'I don´t care if he´s killing kittens'.

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care. The cat was probably put down painlessly at a vet. I don't see the issue at all. Let's not do these cancelling attempts.

Having an animal killed for no good reason, other than it caused you problems, is a bit twisted. In situations like this, rehoming them is the ethical thing to do. This is literally saying 'I don´t care if he´s killing kittens'.

Ask any vet if this happens all the time.

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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The story is apparently a bit more complex.

The cat was having a lot of behavioural issues and ultimately he surrendered it to a shelter, where it may have been euthanized if nobody adopted it. (note that nothing I'm saying here is meant to condone or condemn the action)

The author editorialized it to fit the desired narrative, which is a thing that happens quite a lot. Gotta sell them books!

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care. The cat was probably put down painlessly at a vet. I don't see the issue at all. Let's not do these cancelling attempts.

Having an animal killed for no good reason, other than it caused you problems, is a bit twisted. In situations like this, rehoming them is the ethical thing to do. This is literally saying 'I don´t care if he´s killing kittens'.

Still completely irrelevant for the discussion

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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I don't care. The cat was probably put down painlessly at a vet. I don't see the issue at all. Let's not do these cancelling attempts.

In your opinion, was O.J. Simpson "cancelled?" Hans Reiser?

At what point do we draw a line and accept that a person can be judged negatively for harm they cause?

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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I don't care. The cat was probably put down painlessly at a vet. I don't see the issue at all. Let's not do these cancelling attempts.

Why not put it up for adoption? Having it intentionally killed is psychotic.

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

#39

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The story is apparently a bit more complex. The cat was having a lot of behavioural issues and ultimately he surrendered it to a shelter, where it may have been euthanized if nobody adopted it. (note that nothing I'm saying here is meant to condone or condemn the action) The author editorialized it to fit the desired narrative, which is a thing that happens quite a lot. Gotta sell them books!

There's a big difference between "had his cat put down" and "surrendered it to a shelter". If it's indeed the later (I know nothing about the story) then there's nothing to talk about.

Re: Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?

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Try to keep reminding your self you only respect them for a tiny bit of specific knowledge. You don't need to like the person they are.

Eaiser said then done still for sure. I have a couple hobbies where the top tier people are just annoying people in the rest of their life. Something about being really good at one thing seems to also correlate often with other insane personality traits

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