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WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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s1artibartfast wrote: post #169
TeMPOraL wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a specialized version of the question, is it really evil to kill evil people? But it's also a bit off-topic; the more important one is, are only evil people getting killed by drone strikes executed by people who (claim to) try to kill only evil people? The answer to that is a resounding no. We can debate the specifics of this, but it wasn't my point. My point was, the concept of layers of indirection making pe…

>My point was, the concept of layers of indirection making perpetrating evil/immoral acts easier is a well-recognized one It seems that you are again assuming that drone strikes are evil immoral acts. Most people view civilian casualties in war as a trolley car problem, (e.g. a necessary evil in an overall moral action)

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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by abhisuri97 »

xwdv wrote: post #173

Why doesn't hackernews adopt something or do something like this? Software developers are rolling in money, and it's not that expensive. Guess we're too busy eating the world.

I think it’s just because HN isn’t really a community that has many consistent themes/cohesion. It’s very active but only on individual news items rather than across posts.

But I think if the mods could potentially put up a link for donating to something, it’d get decent traffic. I just wouldn’t expect that initiative to arise organically from the user base and get significant traction.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by mcv »

xwdv wrote: post #173

Why doesn't hackernews adopt something or do something like this? Software developers are rolling in money, and it's not that expensive. Guess we're too busy eating the world.

Go ahead and do it. On Reddit, it started because some people just did it, and others followed their example.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by plumeria »

tudorw wrote: post #48
skohan wrote: post #24

Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…

Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...

It would be cool for trees in, for example, the Amazon and Madagascar. I would like to sponsor a Tahina spectabilis in its habitat.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by prox »

viraptor wrote: post #115
nerdponx wrote: post #81

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Why do people say stuff like this? You don't need email either, just write a letter or send a fax. The point is that here is a piece of new technology that's part of a new vision for the future. Maybe you think it's an unrealistic vision, but that's no reason to sneer at people who disagree with you.

Email is easier and provides more features than a letter or fax in most cases. (With both still having some use in specific cases like personal messages or gov regulated messaging) NFT is harder and doesn't seem to provide any features over current donations. (It's actually worse due to unstable exchange rates and large fees) Unless the vision provides benefits we did not have before I will continue to sneer at "the…

Exactly, but you have to go with the tech latest fad as many here seem stakeholders in it. Once you are invested, you can’t criticize in the same way. It’s castles in the sky to me. It has “bubble” written all over it. There is little in NFC or Bitcoin-like technologies that I see as a great benefit to the human species. Love to be proven wrong with good comments of what that specific tech can do for humanity.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by hrvTGKFyDyko3aK »

edoloughlin wrote: post #53
tudorw wrote: post #48

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Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...

Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly' Can't help but wonder how much habitat is destroyed by the generation of a token.

Etherum will be PoS in like 2 years.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by SilasX »

skohan wrote: post #28
make3 wrote: post #23

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also they don't adopt them, they fund their caretaking. this title is pretty poor.

"adoption" is the terminology used by the foundation, and symbolic adoption is a known quantity in this type of operation so I don't have a problem with it. However referring to wallstreet bets users as "investors" does seem like a bit of a misnomer...

I kind of agree with parent. While I don’t have a problem with symbolic use of adoption, I do have a problem with “multiple adoption”.

When I think of a donor “adopting” a case, I have a model of “this donation sufficed for lifetime care of that case”. If one donation isn’t sufficient, then maybe a group of donations would collectively be the adoption.

You shouldn’t have a scenario where there are more adoptions than cases (gorillas in this one). I mean imagine if a foster agency said they processed five adoptions but had only two children.

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