TheUnicornOfPerfidy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

"Say John from Texas is dying of hunger. He asks me for food, but I refuse. If John dies, is it my fault? Arguably, I merely allowed him to die, which while not exactly benevolent, isn’t exactly murder either. Now imagine that John doesn’t ask for food, but goes off to the market, where he’ll find plenty of people willing to exchange their goods for work that he can do in return. This time though, I hire a couple of heavily armed baddies to block his way. John dies of starvation a few days later. Can I still claim innocence?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (16 children)

You know that immigration is a net positive for every western nation right? People coming to a country wanting to make a new life contribute to a its society and economy. They also help populations keep growing as birthrates are falling. It would be nice to see these sorts of arguments made more though, if that's what you mean?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I also like the phrase "rot economy", though it does reach a little wider

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How many roads must a boy walk down before he becomes a man?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This doesn't solve the problem. If the universe is indeed infinite then there are infinite cases of our evaluation and infinite identical yous out there. If the Boltzmann brain hypothesis is true though, there are vastly "more" of those. It's a larger infinity, making it much more lively you are a Bultzmann brain than a full physical person.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The Boltzmann brain

The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in a void, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Stzj2_Rlo4

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's highly likely, but the getting there is definitely worth it. The game is half the story though. It feels like it stops in the middle, albeit after a significant enough plot point to give you some satisfaction. The game is incredible though and I'd definitely take that version over nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I know right? It's incredible they weren't collecting it already.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Do you think someone got stuck in the rubber?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So just to point this out again, we all know they're terrible because they're an incredibly racist troll too right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (22 children)

I actually quite like this idea. Or we could start using number base 12 instead of 10 everywhere else.

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