Observational studies suggest distance to work is associated with happiness. I moved about 15km closer to work and now walk there, and guess what, I’m a lot happier! Potential confounders: moved out of family home, family home was hostile environment
4. Unhappy babies
Babies frequently cry and are generally helpless. What if they are suffering beyond our comprehension and our shallow memories are our respite from that early trauma?
5. Techno v.s. natural reincarnation
People compare the possibility of resurrection after cryopreservation to the possibility of resurrection without cryopreservation as a slim chance v.s. no chance. I’m skeptical that brain death would imply information theoretic death, when you considr the shear size of the universe, and possible arrangements of matter over time in order to arrange in the form that materialises you, in some stable way, again. Reincarnation, if you will. My reservation against cryonics is not the slim chance, it’s that paying for that slight increase in chance is trivial.
Clarity has a habit of shotgunning shards of his mind dumps across multiple comments. He has been trying to limit the spread, though, and place most of these shards within a “containment thread” the purpose of which is to be a designated place for the shards and thus constrain the collateral damage.
B is likely in a poor negotiating position to start with, and better off just giving A the wallet or running. A’s strong position comes from the precommittment strategy of poor impulse control: “I don’t care if you can get me in trouble, I’m too involved in this attack to think beyond the next few minutes”.
Containment thread
1. Negotiating self defense
Stranger A: I’m going to beat you up
Stranger B: I have photographic memory and illustrate professionally.
Stranger A: I could kill, blind or main you.
Stranger B: I could escape then submit your likeness to the authorities
2. Experimental philosophy
Is anyone here an ethical intuitionist or not?
3. Happy home
Observational studies suggest distance to work is associated with happiness. I moved about 15km closer to work and now walk there, and guess what, I’m a lot happier! Potential confounders: moved out of family home, family home was hostile environment
4. Unhappy babies
Babies frequently cry and are generally helpless. What if they are suffering beyond our comprehension and our shallow memories are our respite from that early trauma?
5. Techno v.s. natural reincarnation
People compare the possibility of resurrection after cryopreservation to the possibility of resurrection without cryopreservation as a slim chance v.s. no chance. I’m skeptical that brain death would imply information theoretic death, when you considr the shear size of the universe, and possible arrangements of matter over time in order to arrange in the form that materialises you, in some stable way, again. Reincarnation, if you will. My reservation against cryonics is not the slim chance, it’s that paying for that slight increase in chance is trivial.
I don’t understand what’s going on here.
What does it mean that this is a “containment thread”
What is going on with this dialog?
Clarity has a habit of shotgunning shards of his mind dumps across multiple comments. He has been trying to limit the spread, though, and place most of these shards within a “containment thread” the purpose of which is to be a designated place for the shards and thus constrain the collateral damage.
Confirmed
B is likely in a poor negotiating position to start with, and better off just giving A the wallet or running. A’s strong position comes from the precommittment strategy of poor impulse control: “I don’t care if you can get me in trouble, I’m too involved in this attack to think beyond the next few minutes”.
I’m sure A will listen to Reason.
you might be motivating a simple, “punch him and steal his wallet ” to “kill him and get away with it”. Might not want to do that.