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I used to be young, but now I'm just immature

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Ukraine Post #9: Again
rosyatrandom3y60

Well, I made the mistake of looking at one of the pictures from Bucha, and... 

... I don't think I'm going to be feeling rational about anything for a while. I have 2 small kids, and another on the way, and right now all I want to do is cry while tearing the throat out of the people responsible.

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Many-Worlds Interpretation and Death with Dignity
rosyatrandom3y10

"every possible universe exists"

Under what kind of metaphysics or semantics could this sentence not be a tautology?

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Ukraine #3: Decision Theory, Madman Theory and the Mafioso Nature
rosyatrandom3y10

The universal trouble is that long-term, flexible and 'ethical' strategies always seem to get trumped by

  • short-term unethical power strategies (i.e., the mafioso type)
  • short-term amoral selfish/corrupt behaviour (i.e., iron law of bureaucracy, disaster capitalism)

It's easier to build than to destroy or steal, sadly

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Ranking Cultures by Rationality
Answer by rosyatrandomJan 27, 202260

Japan can be incredibly inflexible, rigid, and inconsistent with the rules and expectations they follow. There is also a great deal of respect/homage paid to Buddhism and Daoism.

In short, I really don't think rationality is by any means a linear metric, and you certainly couldn't use it as a value-measure of how 'good' a society is.

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Omicron Post #14
rosyatrandom4y30

I just wish the throat swabs didn't trigger my gag reflex.

 

I didn't even know I had a gag reflex until I took one, and it makes the swab pretty useless as I can't get near my tonsils without having to stop before I throw up.

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What I'm about
rosyatrandom4y20

Without other people, any existence would be

  • mind-numbingly dull
  • excruciatingly pointless
  • full of grief and loss; where are my loved-ones? My children?!
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What I'm about
rosyatrandom4y20

That's the only hope I have for escaping death,

Well... there is, of course, any variation of quantum immortality

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What I'm about
rosyatrandom4y30

I have a highly specific vision of a virtual reality heaven. Basically, I would be left alone for all eternity on my personal island

Funnily enough, you've just described, for me, a virtual reality hell

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Omicron Post #12
rosyatrandom4y20

On quarantining/geo-boxing:

Even if the different regions have similar numbers of cases, is there an argument to be made for confinement in that it keeps variants more isolated?

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Can solipsism be disproven?
rosyatrandom4y30

Indeed, since there is no absolute distinction between the parts of reality that are 'you' and those that aren't, then solipsism isn't by itself a meaningful concept.

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