Extinction does not drive evolution, reproduction does, and if a species' food goes extinct, they reproduce less, not more. Secondly, these animals aren't abandoning their niches, they're losing them due to human…
I have the opposite problem: I don't know what anxiety is. Supposedly it's an emotion people have (and it's certainly possible I feel it too,) but I have no way to identify my feelings as anxiety because nobody has ever…
The fact that I like cake is not a conscious decision. My decision is whether I will eat it or not. You don't actually have to be with the people you're attracted to. (We all get old and ugly eventually anyway.)
What understanding? If you can't do anything with it, what do you understand?
You called it a key. I said it is not unless it has a useful purpose.
You are probably going to spend more energy than that just lugging around solar panels.
Under any practical consideration, free will is nothing more than an emotion; it offers you no capabilities, only a propensity to respond to things in a certain way. Without a useful definition of free will that offers…
Lots of people will question this stuff, but they definitely won't bring up their objections. People are incentivized to collect their paychecks and do what they're told, not to point out the absurd thinking of the…
So you're not really protesting unless you light yourself on fire? You understand that if everybody who protested the "big stuff" did so by doing extremely risky things, you're going to end up with nobody left with the…
They're considered separate fields because they focus on different problems which are amenable to different techniques, leaving their expert practitioners with very different knowledge bases. You're right that it is a…
I don't think you've honestly tried to understand what I'm saying, and I don't think your attitude reflects the maturity I expect of someone seriously attempting to discuss ethics.
I am not saying that. I'm saying that considering the government to act only violently is a gross mischaracterization of reality such that even if you define things such that it is technically true, it is not a useful…
I don't understand these distinctions. North Korea doesn't control its population with only boots on the ground, it controls it by controlling the border (with ships), the political arena (with nukes), and by…
There is no position from the perspective of beings that don't exist, let alone a neutral one. It's always the beings that exist that make decisions, and it's always their perspective that counts. Really, it doesn't…
They all say wikipedia.org next to them.
Federal tyrants have access to nuclear weapons, missiles, aircraft carriers, tanks, drones, satellites, etc. How do you expect to fend off tyranny with asymmetric military capabilities? At best it would put you in a…
>This kind of argument relies on the idea that human beings and animals are fundamentally different The argument that humans have any sort of ethical duty at all assumes that humans and animals are fundamentally…
The guarantee is not a need, it is an opportunity that your potential effective employees are looking for. If you deny them that opportunity, they will look elsewhere and be highly effective for someone else.
It's easy to give vague advice though, and the more vague it is the less actionable it tends to be. These "huge leaps" can be seen as a counterpoint to that, where people are trying to do something, and anything less…
It's not just people's heads that need protection. Roads, traffic lights, cars, power lines, windows... people can die in lots of ways other than having a drone fall directly on their head.
You don't have to talk about integrating higher degree polynomials, because a polynomial is just a sum of monomials, and you just end up integrating monomials over and over again. If you can integrate a single monomial,…
Then they're not free to operate as they please.
Photons are by definition quantized energy packets. If the energy weren't quantized, it wouldn't be a photon. What you're probably referring to is quantization of the electron energy, but I believe that only happens for…
Then it is in our rational self-interest to be angry at them, so what is the relevance of your point?
That's called a lightning rod.
Extinction does not drive evolution, reproduction does, and if a species' food goes extinct, they reproduce less, not more. Secondly, these animals aren't abandoning their niches, they're losing them due to human…
I have the opposite problem: I don't know what anxiety is. Supposedly it's an emotion people have (and it's certainly possible I feel it too,) but I have no way to identify my feelings as anxiety because nobody has ever…
The fact that I like cake is not a conscious decision. My decision is whether I will eat it or not. You don't actually have to be with the people you're attracted to. (We all get old and ugly eventually anyway.)
What understanding? If you can't do anything with it, what do you understand?
You called it a key. I said it is not unless it has a useful purpose.
You are probably going to spend more energy than that just lugging around solar panels.
Under any practical consideration, free will is nothing more than an emotion; it offers you no capabilities, only a propensity to respond to things in a certain way. Without a useful definition of free will that offers…
Lots of people will question this stuff, but they definitely won't bring up their objections. People are incentivized to collect their paychecks and do what they're told, not to point out the absurd thinking of the…
So you're not really protesting unless you light yourself on fire? You understand that if everybody who protested the "big stuff" did so by doing extremely risky things, you're going to end up with nobody left with the…
They're considered separate fields because they focus on different problems which are amenable to different techniques, leaving their expert practitioners with very different knowledge bases. You're right that it is a…
I don't think you've honestly tried to understand what I'm saying, and I don't think your attitude reflects the maturity I expect of someone seriously attempting to discuss ethics.
I am not saying that. I'm saying that considering the government to act only violently is a gross mischaracterization of reality such that even if you define things such that it is technically true, it is not a useful…
I don't understand these distinctions. North Korea doesn't control its population with only boots on the ground, it controls it by controlling the border (with ships), the political arena (with nukes), and by…
There is no position from the perspective of beings that don't exist, let alone a neutral one. It's always the beings that exist that make decisions, and it's always their perspective that counts. Really, it doesn't…
They all say wikipedia.org next to them.
Federal tyrants have access to nuclear weapons, missiles, aircraft carriers, tanks, drones, satellites, etc. How do you expect to fend off tyranny with asymmetric military capabilities? At best it would put you in a…
>This kind of argument relies on the idea that human beings and animals are fundamentally different The argument that humans have any sort of ethical duty at all assumes that humans and animals are fundamentally…
The guarantee is not a need, it is an opportunity that your potential effective employees are looking for. If you deny them that opportunity, they will look elsewhere and be highly effective for someone else.
It's easy to give vague advice though, and the more vague it is the less actionable it tends to be. These "huge leaps" can be seen as a counterpoint to that, where people are trying to do something, and anything less…
It's not just people's heads that need protection. Roads, traffic lights, cars, power lines, windows... people can die in lots of ways other than having a drone fall directly on their head.
You don't have to talk about integrating higher degree polynomials, because a polynomial is just a sum of monomials, and you just end up integrating monomials over and over again. If you can integrate a single monomial,…
Then they're not free to operate as they please.
Photons are by definition quantized energy packets. If the energy weren't quantized, it wouldn't be a photon. What you're probably referring to is quantization of the electron energy, but I believe that only happens for…
Then it is in our rational self-interest to be angry at them, so what is the relevance of your point?
That's called a lightning rod.