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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean most pcgamers probably have more powerful hardware already

  According to Valve, it should outperform or match 70% of current PCs owned by gamers. So while not crazy powerful, it might be an affordable (hopefully) upgrade for some more low spec gamers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly right, you got it!

  The intermediary probabilities make it even worse, yes! But the overall probability is already ridiculously tiny, so I don’t think it changes the conclusion by a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my assumption, yes. Because the last person would have the entire population on the tracks, and you can’t really continue after that.

  I neglected the intermediary likelihoods, because that calculation was too long for wolfram alpha, but I have since managed to get it working, and the conclusion is not significantly different. The expected number of deaths skyrockets, even if the chance of pulling the lever is tiny for every person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you should pull the lever, even if this ended after the entire human population was on the track and the experiment doesn’t go on infinitely. Hear me out:

  When a person pulls the lever with a chance of 50% and in one case they kill 2 people and in the other case 0, the kind of average outcome is 0.5 * 2 + (1 - 0.5) * 0 = 1. Now let’s consider the last person in the chain of decision-makers. They would have 2^33 people on the tracks, or about the entire human population. To make the expected outcome be exactly one person, they’d have to pull the lever with likelihood x so that x * 2^33 + (1 - x) * 0 = 1 which would lead to x = 1/2^33 or about x≈0.0000000001. So only if the last person directs the train towards the people with less than this tiny chance, the expected outcome is smaller than 1. This chance is incredibly small, and far far smaller than I’d guess the actual percentage is. Think of the percentage of people that are psychopaths, or mass murderers, or maybe even just clumsy. If you evaluate the percentage as someone flipping that switch as anything above 1/2^33, you should therefore flip the switch yourself. You can guarantee that the outcome is ‘only’ one death, whereas the average outcome of just the last person likely exceeds 1 by a huge amount.

  I really wanted to calculate the percentage so that the expected outcome is 1 even if every person in the chain flips the switch with that chance, but wolfram alphas character limit let me down :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Jesus he is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really a good point, it’s just classic cherrypicking. Jesus himself said in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” so clearly the old testament law should still apply. Christians are just faced with the reality that they could not live their life in accordance with old testament law in todays age, and have therefore chosen to ignore laws from the old testament.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the language equivalent of the “I have a small issue with this software.” - “Have you tried switching your OS to Linux?” conversation lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worthy of an @everyone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Know Your Meme

  This Dog Is Fucked Up Bruh refers to […] the Aussiepoo dog Nori Porkchop edited in the style of a social media post or official playlist artwork by Spotify. After going viral in late July 2022, the image gained virality as a non sequitur spam reaction image on Discord and other social media and has been used in edits.

  Know Your Meme - Nori Porkchop

  Nori Porkchop is a toy Aussiedoodle residing in Seatle, WA who went viral in October 2019 for his human-like facial features and then again in 2019 for posts comparing the dog to actor Seth Rogan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Big Pretzel is probably way to busy keeping the tasty European baked goods away from the Americans instead of spending time on proper Pretzel rotation. Also, every kid knows that pretzel sticks have a top and bottom, don’t be ridiculous! :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Number 2 is not upside down. There seems to be no real consensus on what is “up” for a pretzel, but one alleged origin indicates that the pretzel was shaped after praying hands in the middle ages, which would mean 2 is right side up. Also, when they are made in a bakery, due to how the technique is done, they are placed like in 2, and that direction is also reflected on some more traditional bakery signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goth Moth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  a (M|G)oth