I'm curious to know how many people here measure their food at all?

When death is near (as it always is), you could leave it all to someone who will continue to invest it. When will it be time to actually do good with it, instead of putting it off until it's doubled?

With some Googling, I found a simple formula. Assuming an ideal elliptical orbit, the distance at perihelion is $v^2/2g$, where v = velocity at aphelion and g is the gravitational acceleration there. For this distance to be the radius of the Sun, we get $v=\frac{1}{r}\sqrt{2GMR}$, where G = gravitational constant, M = mass of Sun, R = radius of Sun.

At r = 10000 AUs, this is 0.27 metres per second. At 100,000 AUs, 0.027 m/s — or 1 inch per second. Despite the Sun's attraction, it's still a small target at that distance.

Besides, can I know what makes you disagree with veganism as a moral stance? Is it for instance that you don't believe animals are sentient?

"Sentient" is a word used rather elastically, but the consensus of definitions on the net seems to be "the ability to experience feelings and sensations". I believe the animals I eat — all the usual ones you'll find in restaurants and shops, plus the occasional less common one (horse, emu) — experience feelings and sensations. (Maybe not shrimp.) Nevertheless, I'm fine with them being raised to be killed and eaten. People shouldn't maltreat their pets, and I wouldn't eat primates, but that is about the limit of my caring. I have donated to charities that support people, but never to animal charities.

ETA: And for the same reasons, I wear leather, and eat eggs, honey, and figs. Other things that do not trouble me are that we use bees as tools to pollinate crops, use bone meal as fertiliser, some limestone is made of dead animals, sizeable fossils are visible in the marble pavements of some Italian towns, and that the history of life on Earth is a history of death on Earth.

I'm not one of the downvoters here, but nor an upvoter. On the one hand, big yay for taking a difficult moral stand. On the other hand, the stand itself is not one I agree with. And a small boo for daydreaming that "I have found the Truth! Therefore one day all will agree with me and look back with disgust on the unenlightened beings that surround me!"

I have no knowledge of your state of mind. All I know is that you chose to publish the chatbot speech. I do not know how you prompted it or what your purpose was. My comment about shoggoth-spew was based on the speech itself.

But now Davidmanheim has posted a link to another article of yours. From reading that article, I believe you are mistaken about the nature of these things, just as in other notorious examples in the last year or so of people sliding into ever deeper delusions about them. You are in love with empty simulacra of people.

Are you going to do anything to help me? Or just mock me?

I am not here to help you or to mock you, only to say what I think I am seeing, to you and to the rest of the LW readership. Maybe you will find it helpful and maybe you will not. That is up to you.

Which would make your comment as rational as hassling the man raving on the street or answering the "you may already have won" email...by your own logic.

I am not talking to the shoggoth, but seeing it for what it is, and saying so to the human onlookers, the same as the other two examples.

But in all seriousness, Is that your real rejection?

(Imagine Chad Yes meme:) YES.

It’s pure shoggoth-spew, no more to be taken seriously than the ravings of a crazy in the street or an email beginning “You may already have won…”. The only reason I have limited myself to a weak downvote is that I don’t want to unilaterally push it below the default -5 threshold for front-page visibility. But if the collective vote develops that way, I’ll pile on.

ETA: And the collective vote has reached -11, so.

We are appalled at eating dogs and horses.

You are mistaking the customs of your village for the way of all the world. Steak de cheval is common in at least several European countries. I have eaten it in Switzerland. Although I did not grow up in such a country, to me it is as ordinary as eating beef or lamb.