MajorasTerribleFate
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- Comment on Radon 5 hours ago:
“I write code”
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 19 hours ago:
Right alongside Kombucha Combat
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 2 days ago:
If Earth’s gravity isn’t literal torture for you, then you have no chance of understanding Belter creole
- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 4 days ago:
Someone who was alive in the last hundred years may well have identifiable descendents or cousins. Someone from 3,350 years ago, less likely.
Since we often tend to consider the next of kin or manager of an estate to be the legal entity able to make certain decisions following the death of the person in question, whether there is a known/discoverable agent to ask may be relevant in this kind of matter.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 6 days ago:
says horrifying thing
waits for reaction
If positive reaction: all good.
If negative reaction: “Calm down, it was just a joke.”
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
I know some folks who spend their time in Brinstar who’d like a word.
- Comment on NEW TOAD ALERT 1 week ago:
Probably theyre just dappl8ng in biology.
- Comment on Winter burrow SBI controversy 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I’d say the consumer has a right to know, per se, but they may well have an interest in knowing. Whether or not a developer/publisher/whoever opts to provide this kind of information may itself be a factor in consumers making a purchasing decision, and, if some information isn’t being provided up-front, consumers can and should ask questions. Ideally, those questions and the answers would be public-facing.
I am a little miffed at responses down this comment chain somehow seeing your opinions as evidence of bigotry. It’s, like… people can disagree, people can have thoughts about things. Just because someone seems not to agree on one point doesn’t make them your polar opposite on everything, and surely shouldn’t lead to name-calling and gatekeeping. That’s the kind of behavior that leads folks to see everyone on “the other side” as extremists of some kind, if every time you interact with them they just jump to hard responses at the slightest provocation.
To be clear, that part was all directed at the others’ behavior, not really yours.
Signed,
A lefty non-bigot who doesn’t think anyone in this thread (among those whose comments I read) is showing any actual signs of bigotry
- Comment on Bacon 1 week ago:
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 1 week ago:
Fun fact: decimal representations of sevenths follow a repeating pattern of the same 6 digits in the same order, from a different starting point:
1/7: 0.142857142857…
2/7: 0.285714285714…
3/7: 0.428571…
4/7: 0.571428…
5/7: 0.714285…
6/7: 0.857142…Something similar happens with 13ths, but there are two different sets of six repeating digits, with 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, and 12 (thirteenths) using one set of digits (769230) and 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 using the other (153846). Note the mirrored pattern of numerators here: 1_34______9A_C (using hex-like letters to represent digits over 9) and 2__5678__B. There’s probably a great reason for that but it hasn’t occurred to me, and I’ve never looked it up.
I also greatly enjoy that this happens with the two numbers most associated with luck, 7 and 13.
- Comment on NEW TOAD ALERT 1 week ago:
- Comment on Vindicated Iguanas 1 week ago:
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 week ago:
Correct.
- Comment on Bacon 1 week ago:
“Guess he saw my pig use the dog and figured it out.”
wut
- Comment on Thank you, Boston 1 week ago:
So, sort of like “good, fast, cheap: pick (at most) two”, except “kind, polite, fast: pick (at most) two”.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others.
I’d characterize my view as understanding that people may be motivated by selfish concerns, but not assuming that any given person I’m interacting with is. As far as “skeptical” in this context, I’d say it’s a little too strong to describe my process/viewpoint. In the purest, binary form of “skeptical” vs. “unquestioning”, sure, skeptical. But in the sense of “eying suspiciously”, not so much.
“Extend[ing] the benefit of the doubt” and “keeping myself open to the possibility (and hope) that someone is being honest with me”, for me, both describe what I’ll try to describe more deeply:
Barring prior contrary experience with or knowledge of a person, I begin with the assumption that they are honest and not intend to take advantage of me. Any simple statements or requests they make that don’t seem costly or detrimental to anyone, I’ll generally accept at face value. If they present a statement contrasting with my current understanding, or if they request something of me that could potentially cause myself or someone else harm (bodily, reputation, resources, whatever), I start more consciously evaluating what they say/do to ensure as best as I can that I’m not being convinced of something out of line with my interests. I still don’t assume here that their motives are malign, just that they may have too different of a worldview for me to risk not carefully considering what is presented to me.
In the event that I have or gain reason to think the person’s interests may be against my own, I stay on much higher alert to avoid being conned or convinced of anything. Generally I’ll also try to increase the physical and/or social distance between us, because my natural state is not suspicious and it’s exhausting to keep that much guard up.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
I’d say, at least for me, I try to remember that “cynical” is not always correct. Under the same idea as “trust, but verify”, I extend the benefit of the doubt, but less so when there is some real risk or cost to me. I lose little to nothing in keeping myself open to the possibility (and hope) that someone is being honest with me, while still looking for the signs that they might not be. Please don’t take any of this to imply blind trust.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
I find that viewing the world cynically is self-reinforcing, and it is a difficult cycle to escape from. Accurate or not, I prefer to think of humans as broadly better than that, without sacrificing pragmatic vigilance for the parts of my life where assumptions of potential innocence aren’t too risky.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Permit me to restate: Hanlon’s Razor is a good thing to keep in mind to keep from becoming cynical about the whole of humanity. That said, any situation of importance (security or health, for example) has too great a risk to rely on Hanlon’s Razor, and people facing these should remain vigilant.
As far as basic interpersonal relationships and other relatively low-stakes scenarios, sure, granting some benefit of the doubt can be useful when there aren’t glaring red flags.
All that said, I suppose I agree with you that Hanlon’s Razor is probably not broadly applicable enough in our world to be valuable as a rule of thumb. I prefer to “imagine others complexly”, keeping in mind that the motivations, feelings, and histories of other people are not really reducable to simple caricatures. As such, I try not to make judgments/assumptions about why someone might say or do a particular thing, and where possible/reasonable extend them grace. This is not meant to interfere with the social contract of tolerance: anyone willfully intolerant of someone else who is protected by the contract of tolerance is not protected by the contract of tolerance.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
I am of the opinion that Hanlon’s Razor best applies to isolated or infrequent occurrences. When something has been going on for monrhs or years that hurts or takes advantage of people, the more likely explanation becomes malice.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
(tongue-in-cheeck devil’s advocate)
And everyone knows the best way to do things is never change them. Like music, and bigoted voting rights.
- Comment on Michael 2 weeks ago:
Gymer Bro Michael
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 weeks ago:
I, too, am speaking tongue-in-cheek.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 weeks ago:
So you’re saying that 2 protons closer than 15 cm would collapse into a black hole? That’s got me pretty worried, because I have a lot more than 2 protons within that proximity in my body, by at least an order of magnitude or so
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 weeks ago:
Hawking radiation
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 weeks ago:
I bet you’re from the kind of place that has the head of state and head of government be the same person. I mean, I am too, but I bet you also are.
- Comment on Restroom Location 3 weeks ago:
Do you have literally anything to lend credence to this claim?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
I mean, not really. He knows analog clocks well enough that the hand position just inherently means something to him. Afternoon, and the little hand is almost halfway? Work day done! Just by position.
Somewhat analagous: I know how far a meter and a kilometer are, in principle, but when I consider distances I more intuitively understand them in feet and miles. It’s what I’m used to.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 weeks ago:
I know a Gen X guy who “hates” digital clocks because “they don’t have hands to tell me what time it is.”
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 4 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, I asked Google Gemini if I should use AI more. It said:
The short answer is: yes, you should explore using AI more, but you should do so strategically and thoughtfully.
Which, of course, still favors using AI more without necessarily knowing much about my current use. At least this answer suggested careful and deliberate use rather than wanton.
