Watching Okja was a key part of me realizing how important animal rights are.
Knowing at the back of my mind that factory is farming is bad? I sleep
Watching a cgi mythical pig-like creature go through it? Real shit (aka look into things more and get a deeper understanding of the truth, inspect my values, then act accordingly)
As a nonaccomodationist vegan (who hasn't heard that term before. It probably applies to me but there are plain readings of it which wouldn't), I think you're right that we do tend to be crazier. It's a fringe view, and people get there for a whole host of reasons, many of which come with "baggage" in some form or other. Many have trauma which impacts them deeply in a lot of ways, some healthy (intolerance of harm), some unhealthy (see all the negative side effects of trauma). Others are simply contrarians who like being edgy or fringe. Others are looking for some extreme with which to view the world where they're the hero/"good guy" and everyone else is evil. Those are the main crazy nonaccomodationist vegan archetypes I've seen and unpacked, but I'm sure there are others.
That doesn't make it ok to exploit animals though.
Note that the reference is specifically in regards to older patients and for diagnosing a specific form of "crazy". Does it generalize to all forms of "crazy"? I don't know, I haven't looked into it at all. I just was curious and wanted to read the citation, and thought it was worth noting.
From the conclusion: "Disorientation to time is a useful guide to the presence and severity of dementia or delirium in older hospital patients."
"I was rolling my eyes about how they'd now found a new way of being the story's subject"
That reads to me like it's still rolling eyes at a status overreach, just a slightly different one than the one most people would roll their eyes at
Unfortunately I don't have a super fleshed out perspective on this, and I stopped reading after looking at the causal graph so I could be totally missing something important (although I did skim the rest and search for the text "influen" to find things related to this thought). I know that's not the best way to engage, feel free to downvote, take this with a grain of salt, and sorry in general for a lower effort comment.
The step in the graph from "I get higher reward on this training episode" -> "I have influence through deployment" doesn't really sit right with me. Is it only true for the final model (or few... (read more)
This reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5FAnfAStc7birapMx/the-hostile-telepaths-problem
I haven't read this yet, but the general idea reminds me of the living fossils https://thelivingfossils.substack.com/p/the-fossil-record-so-far
I didn't know there was (going to be?) an epilogue to planecrash, but it didn't leave me nearly as thirsty for more as hpmor did. With hpmor, I wanted to see what everyone would do next, as they're still pretty young, whereas with planecrash, it felt like everything I was curious about was explored to my satisfaction. Sure, we don't get a lot of specifics on the new society(s) on golarion, but that's pretty fine with me. It would be interesting to see maybe what The Future holds, or where the language guy ends up, but the former feels right as a mystery, while the latter seemed pretty well foreshadowed
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Epistemic status: Intuition pump/map for navigating ethics
In this essay, I argue that John Rawls’ veil of ignorance is not merely a philosophical thought experiment, but a useful and mostly accurate description of reality when viewed through certain theories of personal identity. This framing leads to sentientism, that all sentient beings are morally relevant . This helps clarify the is/ought problem, and has implications for how we should act both individually and as a species.
John Rawls's "original position," part of his social contract theory of justice, introduces the thought experiment of the "veil of ignorance." Behind this veil, individuals are tasked with designing a just society... (read 1600 more words →)
If you like this you might also like planecrash https://glowfic.com/posts/4582