futurehero

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It's as if survival depends on a species being prevented from reaching a point of average intelligence where a single errant outlier with a malicious streak can destroy the whole. When everyone has the ability to build a doomsday device, someone will. Hence the vast, fecund universe for the taking scored by the inexplicable, seemingly eldritch, fermian silence.

futurehero

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Such choices sound lovely until those that choose not to realize too late that the 100% of their ancestors that made the opposite one might've been on to something. If it's a lie sold to the public, the entity doing the lying is the selective pressure of evolution. Dispositions that reduce to evolutionary dead ends don't get far.

futurehero

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The Legend of 1900. "The world's a piano with millions of keys. I can't play music on that." There are so many alternative choices one can make when creating a web application, that creating a code generator then must ask themselves, do I give my potential users the burden of choice? Or do I make decisions and hide them from them? Do I build my own implementations of these choices so I'm not sending business out the the door? I'm looking for one as well. I'm also looking to build one. Everything is up in the air at the moment, but let me know if you would like to talk about this some more.

futurehero

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what bank does this?

futurehero

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The circlejerk is strong.

futurehero

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Should the tech giants really be punished for being too successful? I don't think so. They got to their size by being better. Nobody thought yahoo would ever be unseated. Yawho?

futurehero

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This is why you've been pushed towards front end work and denied the credit for tasks that might put you on a path to power. Those above you can sense what you'd do with it. You'd say: "My experience has been this, and none of you can argue with that, so here is what we're going to do to make up for the injustices I experienced. Deal with it". The equality of outcome you so desire would be you and everyone underneath you unemployed, whole organizations gone bankrupt, and entire countries: a gulag.

futurehero

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Your observation of reality is racist /s.

futurehero

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Interesting, but how do you stop a malicious actor from making the whole thing into their personal bitcoin miner?

futurehero

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How many will die if every human alive today gets Covid-19, and will those who survive be able to repopulate the Earth, or will the percentage lost be a barley noticeable blip when individuals in the year 3000 look at the chart of human population growth from the dawn of humanity to their current age, assuming our species survives that long? If a blip, this has all been much ado about nothing.

futurehero

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Calling my position eugenicist is a straw-man. I am not advocating for artificially selective evolutionary pressure, but rather am pointing out that allowing natural selection to take its course is a rational position to hold, even moreso in the face of the accumulating consequences of Malthusian crisis. Humanity's battle is not with Darwin, it's with Fermi.

futurehero

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There are 2.3 million people incarcerated in America. 5000, or 0.2% of them, died in jail. A 99.8% chance of not dying in jail for those 2.3 million people is thus indicative of a society with high degree of civilization. Fyodor would call our jails health spas compared to what existed in Russia during his lifetime between 1821 and 1881.

futurehero

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For reference, post-conviction, those sentenced to a year or less remain in jails, while those sentenced to a year and a day or more go to prisons. Prison is actually preferable over jail for most incarcerated individuals, as jails tend to be more tightly controlled than prisons, which function like their own societies with built-in, tractable hierarchies. People in prisons behave, in a sense, because they have to live together.

futurehero

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"I'm going to die if I don't get my <insert recreational drug here>" doesn't carry. Drugs of necessity, like insulin, are provided to avoid liability. Society, on the whole, is not OK with providing recreational drugs or their equivalent to anyone, much less those pending criminal charges, and correctional officers are average members of society, and thus share its general position on providing recreational drugs or their equivalents to users or addicts, including those they are paid to oversee whilst incarcerated. This is a rational way for society to be. Saving everyone from the consequences of their actions is not a viable nor tenable survival strategy for any population or species.

futurehero

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A community is a collection of individuals, each of whom may or may not feel pain in response to something that happens to less than 0.002% of Americans, and generally as a result of the deceased individual's own behavior. Collections of individuals do not experience pain as a collective. Many, if made aware, would still not care, because they manage to keep themselves out of jail, and barring that, manage to refrain from assaulting the correctional officers charged with maintaining order within the correctional system. Call them callous, but theirs is a way of being in the world that is no less valid than one that holds every individual's life worthy of special protection from the consequences of their unforced errors, and where these might be attributable to mental illness, there is a rational argument for putting the space and resources consumed by the mentally ill to better use. One wouldn't fill a spaceship full of mentally ill occupants where every individual's actions contribute to or harm the survival of the others, and it is not a huge leap to see the earth as a ship and the survival of it's occupants as far from guaranteed. It is straight forward to infer that that which increases net prosocial behavior within the species need not be resisted.

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