I’m sorry you feel that way.
G Wood
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I think it does, you just used them? I use all of those and am still married. I mean maybe you could workshop the language a little.
I think it would help to know the root of the word sorry is to be sad. When you say sorry you are indicating you are sad about the situation.
Nah, I think its mostly in the invisible status ledger in your heads. You sometimes find an apology to be physically painful? That’s a good apology.
You pay them back by reducing your relative status, even a little.
I do think that people want to be mass murderers – but this desire is suppressed very well.
May i present to you:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/baTWMegR42PAsH9qJ/generalizing-from-one-example
It is not my internal experience to want to be a mass murderer.
Yes absolutely, im not trying to propose an idealized way to run a culture. Simply trying to describe what is.
I would absolutely prefer a culture with some flexibility and ability to pick up and drop memes that prove themselves stupid. It’s just that to be a viable culture in the first place your host society must belive you to be somthing to encourage.
Honey is Good
Whoa! Talk about flogging a dead horse!
Sure, your right that religion is a trade of sanity for community, but there’s juicyier targets if your going to start tilting at meme complexes.
How about you mention the devout followers of Marxism or capitalism or the American democratic party or the Republicans. All make the same trade.
Kinda part of being human?
Well I suppose the lesswrong community of voluntary mostly amateur writers has much to apologize to you for. Perhaps you could be the change you want to see and write an interesting one?
Yes, it has stripped my illusion of free will. How nice. Greetings to my fellow one boxer ;)
Horror. Somthing literally called Authority comes in and flattens everything and everyone into one punch man’s situation. In a way that means you cant even trust your own memory’s or emotions, where your choice is now irrelevant.
A stake you can revoke was never staked.
Yeah that is true. Makes sense. I suppose I haven’t read enough of it knowingly to develop a taste aversion for it yet.
G Wood’s Shortform
Why is LLM use in writing even bad? You still own the words you write? Is this just a status thing?
If i run into someone who refuses a hypothetical in that way, I assume they are not a serious person and stop trying to convince them. They are either playing to win the argument as opposed to being right or cannot imagine non real things. Both cases are hopeless.
I agree, it’s a bit werid as is. Maybe they were thinking different levels of dealing? Like your local small time vs your national distributor.
I like this and agree with you generally. In NZ there are some things like this already, the “In‑Work Tax Credit” is a benefit for those with children that shrinks based on your income. I think the formula is “Final payment = Base entitlement for your number of children – 27% × (income above threshold)”.
I would probably watch out for things that look like a distribution but hide a categorical shift. In your drugs example the crime being punished at the low end, is having drugs for yourself. The crime being punished at the high end is having drugs for sale. There are thresholds that can be usefully set to distinguish those cases, and those cases have different harms, grams possessed is only a proxy for which case you’re in.
I take your point, it’s a good point.
Slightly unrelatedly, if you can afford a dishwasher you should get one and install it by any means possible. So much time saved.
Actually, I’m not engaging on this “At last, something with a little substance, although it doesn’t even come close to exploring or finding fault with the idea. That’s ok, it’s something.”
This is so condescending. You’ve already decided you are right. This attitude doesn’t belong on lesswrong.
Could you please define what you mean by belief?
If you gave me the option to kill 1000s of people easily, say at the push of a button and I would get away Scott free, I wouldn’t. I mean you can have any ethics you’d like, but I get nothing from killing them.
However, games give you somthing different. Domination, displaying skill, winning. There is simulated killing sure, but its incidental to the main point.