Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
One of my pet peeves is people making irrelevant responses to contexts with specific statements effectively ignoring the context of the specific statement.
Like "first time or struggling players players should use gun type A as it has a lower skill floor than gun type B and so will have a better chance with A"
To which someone responds
"I have never have any trouble using gun type b to complete this"
Which ignores that the advice was aimed at new or struggling players, and it's just generally irrelevant.
This in turn reminds me of a conversation that Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson had about Sam Harris having problems with effective communication. Tyson pointed out that Harris' statements about profiling will always be met with reactions like "not all Muslims are terrorists" despite the fact that this is explicitly acknowledged by his position because statistics are a recent discovery and thinking in terms of probability is a learned skill not an innate function of common sense. Which is an interesting idea and one that I think captures a lot of what is interesting about where conversations often break down.
Except I think I would extend it and wonder whether thinking about anything in terms of sets and subsets and thus taking context into account is also a learned skill and sets themselves are a recent discovery
The alternative is that people are simply not careful readers and listeners, but I think that is not the case and people do this despite dedicating their attention.
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SurfpossumA nonentitytrying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered Userregular
One of my pet peeves is people making irrelevant responses to contexts with specific statements effectively ignoring the context of the specific statement.
Like "first time or struggling players players should use gun type A as it has a lower skill floor than gun type B and so will have a better chance with A"
To which someone responds
"I have never have any trouble using gun type b to complete this"
Which ignores that the advice was aimed at new or struggling players, and it's just generally irrelevant.
This in turn reminds me of a conversation that Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson had about Sam Harris having problems with effective communication. Tyson pointed out that Harris' statements about profiling will always be met with reactions like "not all Muslims are terrorists" despite the fact that this is explicitly acknowledged by his position because statistics are a recent discovery and thinking in terms of probability is a learned skill not an innate function of common sense. Which is an interesting idea and one that I think captures a lot of what is interesting about where conversations often break down.
Except I think I would extend it and wonder whether thinking about anything in terms of sets and subsets and thus taking context into account is also a learned skill and sets themselves are a recent discovery
The alternative is that people are simply not careful readers and listeners, but I think that is not the case and people do this despite dedicating their attention.
That seems cool. I have a friend who would probably be crazy all about that paper. He's big in bioethics stuff. He focuses on clinical practice, but has studied some stuff from Bonnie Steinbock (who actually just retired from my department) about harm against the non-existent.
I'm not sold by your summary. I kind of buy the sharp distinction, and I don't see the analogous case with the sleeping. Even if it's the case that the existing are not sharply in the existing, I don't think it's necessarily the case that it must mean that the not existing are not sharply in the not existing.
I don't know. I have no serious position on this, but you're gonna have to convince me that the not existing can in fact be harmed. The whole thing is terribly interesting, because there are some argument against abortion that relies on there being no harm done to not existing persons. Otherwise we have to worry about abortion harming all the possible children. I mean, you open that can of worms.
also how do you assign the harm? like, you aren't just harming 2 not existing children that you aren't having, you've harmed an infinite amount of not existing children. You threaten to turn us all to moral monsters. So maybe there's a problem with the modal worries?
Again though, interesting. Cool stuff
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A while back on [chat] we were discussing googling our names. I personally have a name (in IRL) (and OOC I guess?) that is pretty damn generic. But I'm still surprised by all the shit that comes up when you google my name. There's an author on Amazon that has my name who is apparently a Christian mystic inspired by Zen and it's so weird guys.
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I think their reputation is pretty well ruined already.
Which is a shame, I like the little bit of the game I played and it was pretty much what I expected.
If nothing else hopefully they learned the lesson that Peter Molyneux never did:
Shut up. Until you know what you're going to release, seriously, just shut up.
Somewhat related to "Release dates are internal. If you absolutely have to give a projected release date add six months to your internal release date. And probably add a year on to that just to be safe."
Also in class there was some discussion around snarky responses to a thing in an html textbook on page 404. A couple of my friends went on with the general theme of computer jokes, and one of them made a pun. So one friend-of-a-friend said this: "I 'sea' what you did there! Huh? Huh?"
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it's okay to have puns and it's okay to have non sequitors but when you're in a pun thread CONTINUE WITH THE THEME OF THE PUNS GODDAMMIT.
Also in class there was some discussion around snarky responses to a thing in an html textbook on page 404. A couple of my friends went on with the general theme of computer jokes, and one of them made a pun. So one friend-of-a-friend said this: "I 'sea' what you did there! Huh? Huh?"
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it's okay to have puns and it's okay to have non sequitors but when you're in a pun thread CONTINUE WITH THE THEME OF THE PUNS GODDAMMIT.
A while back on [chat] we were discussing googling our names. I personally have a name (in IRL) (and OOC I guess?) that is pretty damn generic. But I'm still surprised by all the shit that comes up when you google my name. There's an author on Amazon that has my name who is apparently a Christian mystic inspired by Zen and it's so weird guys.
In the early 00s when I was an active blogger I was #1 on google for my name. And I'm pretty much Swedish John Smith.
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
I hung out with movie nerds tonight and it was amazing they loved me having opinions
We watched SPLINTER which was a nice little horror film I hadn't seen
Also in class there was some discussion around snarky responses to a thing in an html textbook on page 404. A couple of my friends went on with the general theme of computer jokes, and one of them made a pun. So one friend-of-a-friend said this: "I 'sea' what you did there! Huh? Huh?"
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it's okay to have puns and it's okay to have non sequitors but when you're in a pun thread CONTINUE WITH THE THEME OF THE PUNS GODDAMMIT.
That's terrible. Execute him.
If they're computer nerd puns, I'm guessing it wasn't sea, it was C the language
Also in class there was some discussion around snarky responses to a thing in an html textbook on page 404. A couple of my friends went on with the general theme of computer jokes, and one of them made a pun. So one friend-of-a-friend said this: "I 'sea' what you did there! Huh? Huh?"
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it's okay to have puns and it's okay to have non sequitors but when you're in a pun thread CONTINUE WITH THE THEME OF THE PUNS GODDAMMIT.
That's terrible. Execute him.
If they're computer nerd puns, I'm guessing it wasn't sea, it was C the language
Unless you're explaining this oddly
Okay, point. (I mean, we're in a C++ class!) But when I asked why the sea was involved in any of this, he didn't explain C the language. I mean, he still could've meant that but he didn't state that outright.
Does anyone actually carry warhammers in Warhammer or is it all chainsaw swords and walking skulltanks and blood
IIRC the title is from Warhammer fantasy. The God Sigmar has a big ass warhammer.
40k has like power energy warhammers or something like that that some of the space marines use.
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I thought it was because he got accused by the Bahamas of grooming a young boy.
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IIRC the title is from Warhammer fantasy. The God Sigmar has a big ass warhammer.
ordinary people? was he in that?
Like "first time or struggling players players should use gun type A as it has a lower skill floor than gun type B and so will have a better chance with A"
To which someone responds
"I have never have any trouble using gun type b to complete this"
Which ignores that the advice was aimed at new or struggling players, and it's just generally irrelevant.
This in turn reminds me of a conversation that Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson had about Sam Harris having problems with effective communication. Tyson pointed out that Harris' statements about profiling will always be met with reactions like "not all Muslims are terrorists" despite the fact that this is explicitly acknowledged by his position because statistics are a recent discovery and thinking in terms of probability is a learned skill not an innate function of common sense. Which is an interesting idea and one that I think captures a lot of what is interesting about where conversations often break down.
Except I think I would extend it and wonder whether thinking about anything in terms of sets and subsets and thus taking context into account is also a learned skill and sets themselves are a recent discovery
The alternative is that people are simply not careful readers and listeners, but I think that is not the case and people do this despite dedicating their attention.
I really hope they are not grabbing the money and running.
They need to finish the game. It is going to ruin their reputation if they don't.
Counter-Point: If they've made enough money that they don't need to work again, does the reputation still matter?
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It depends if they are willing to let their company die or not.
Which is a shame, I like the little bit of the game I played and it was pretty much what I expected.
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One of the devs sold his house to keep the doors open. There's definitely a pride factor going on here.
I read your summary.
I'm not sold by your summary. I kind of buy the sharp distinction, and I don't see the analogous case with the sleeping. Even if it's the case that the existing are not sharply in the existing, I don't think it's necessarily the case that it must mean that the not existing are not sharply in the not existing.
I don't know. I have no serious position on this, but you're gonna have to convince me that the not existing can in fact be harmed. The whole thing is terribly interesting, because there are some argument against abortion that relies on there being no harm done to not existing persons. Otherwise we have to worry about abortion harming all the possible children. I mean, you open that can of worms.
also how do you assign the harm? like, you aren't just harming 2 not existing children that you aren't having, you've harmed an infinite amount of not existing children. You threaten to turn us all to moral monsters. So maybe there's a problem with the modal worries?
Again though, interesting. Cool stuff
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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If nothing else hopefully they learned the lesson that Peter Molyneux never did:
Shut up. Until you know what you're going to release, seriously, just shut up.
Somewhat related to "Release dates are internal. If you absolutely have to give a projected release date add six months to your internal release date. And probably add a year on to that just to be safe."
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it's okay to have puns and it's okay to have non sequitors but when you're in a pun thread CONTINUE WITH THE THEME OF THE PUNS GODDAMMIT.
It's actually in the game with stats for the first time ever in Age of Sigmar.
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That's terrible. Execute him.
In the early 00s when I was an active blogger I was #1 on google for my name. And I'm pretty much Swedish John Smith.
We watched SPLINTER which was a nice little horror film I hadn't seen
If they're computer nerd puns, I'm guessing it wasn't sea, it was C the language
Unless you're explaining this oddly
Okay, point. (I mean, we're in a C++ class!) But when I asked why the sea was involved in any of this, he didn't explain C the language. I mean, he still could've meant that but he didn't state that outright.
I'm still executing him.
40k has like power energy warhammers or something like that that some of the space marines use.
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