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I think a lot of the time "beliefs" are more about social signaling than actual worldview. Most people aren't going to do anything to go against the grain for the sake of their beliefs, so one belief or another isn't going to make a difference for anything that matters.

Your other comments in this thread seem to contradict that a little, at least the idea that these harms or benefits would be visible enough to you to evaluate, since you claim to have switched positions when they started becoming more visible and something you would have had to engage with directly. For software in particular, you empower your users to do whatever they happen to choose to do with it.

Which isn't to say you're doing the wrong thing. I just see the economy as a whole as an inherently cannibalistic system we have little choice but to be a contributing part of one way or another, with the main form of meaningful available agency being to minimize involvement rather than choosing how to be involved.

I feel like that has got to be pretty difficult unless you include jobs where you are personally isolated from and ignorant of the harmful things the company you contribute to is doing

What about unjustly light sentences though? Like a sex criminal who is let off easy because he's white, has rich parents and was on track to get a high paying career?

Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We're on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.

For starting a fire, look for bits of birch bark on the ground, it is extremely flammable and is much better tinder than leaves.

There's also birds being loud and the sun making the inside of your tent too hot to contend with

You can also take off your shoe and use that

I would like that to be true, but I don't think the numbers really support it, at least for the approval rating:

42% approve, 54% disapprove

Last updated on July 2nd 2025

He was 6th lowest approved president ever for his first term, but that was with an approval rating of 34%, which is lower than it is currently. Bottom 3 are Truman, Nixon, and Bush, with 22,24,25% respectively.

The exact logic behind why in the world they thought this would be a good idea will be a better question answered in court

I sympathize with the guy's situation but that's a hell of a bait and switch headline, no explanation of what happened there is offered beyond it

but I’m playing it in English, so I guess I wouldn’t have anyway?

The text in the screenshot in the reddit post they link is in English

“It’s curiosity about a really sick and evil mind. We read it the way you read [Karl Marx’s] Das Kapital.”

hmmm

The smell is pretty hard to clean off

But I believe that if AIs are passing the Turing test, we need to update the test.

Uhh that's kind of not how tests are supposed to work. If you want non-falsifiable conviction in human specialness, maybe try religion instead.

Hot weather is a lot more comfortable than cold weather to me tbh

Does sterling imply silver? I did the numbers and apparently an actual pound of silver is now 422 pounds.

I don't like the idea of recurring payments especially for something I'm not actively using because then I have to remember to shut it off at some point.

Maybe you decide $10/mo is such a small number (the price of two coffees in any country where I’ve lived over the past 15 years) that you’re happy to keep on donating at the end of one year?

What, like I'm going to remember a year in advance to look into this? I'm willing to donate a little to things on rare occasions but I don't think I would do it this way because I don't want an accumulation of little monthly payments I have stopped thinking about draining my finances.

The article brings up good criticisms, like all the minors getting molested due to the platform being negligent, and manipulative in game spending options. Paying for online content creation work doesn't seem as bad as that to me though.

I'd like to offer the counterpoint that someone once advised me not to try weed until after I'd tried LSD, I followed that advice and I think it turned out for the better. There isn't exactly a benefit to being very impressed by the intensity of other drug experiences, and psychedelics can give you a sense of perspective about what you want out of life that's useful for navigating choices. They also tend to be self-deterring; you likely will feel more satisfied and grateful to have your feet on solid ground again after a trip, as opposed to immediately craving more, even if it was wonderful, which is a very convenient property many other drugs lack.