What you call "time travel ethics" is more like...

Anonymous asked:

What you call "time travel ethics" is more like "acausal ethics", people intuitively grasp the acausal negotiations that underlie our ethical systems.

In this case, I disagree. This represents a potential recommitment to bad policy on the grounds that you or your ancestors (who are not you) did it before. I’d say it’s more similar to a sunk cost fallacy than an acausal negotiation.

That’s why I gave an example of a 16 year old girl having a kid. This is, clearly and obviously, a bad policy.

And if you’re reading this, you probably either agree abortion should be legal (in which case you disagree with the logic of the argument), xor you probably agree that mass migration isn’t such a great idea (in which case you disagree with the logic of the argument).

anons asks philo

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Anonymous asked:

But Miti, how are your anons supposed to optimize our asks for creepiness and/or offensiveness if we don't know your race and gender? Won't you think of the anons?

Ugggh. Who do you think you are, Google?

Come back when you’re a multinational corporation physically embodying the threat of a societal panopticon in order to more efficiently sell Authentic™ skinny mom jeans to hipsters, loser.

anons asks shtpost this is a joke

[soon your askbox would be full of shitpost asks like Argumate’s and] you’d be tempted to make an ms paint collage for every single one.

This ~~television show~~ blog doesn’t have that kind of ~~animation~~ drawing budget.

But don’t worry. Most anons on this blog do not get a Full Custom™ MS Paint.JPG for their asks. It’s just the rate of images per ask that would reduce.

anons asks shtpost

Anonymous asked:

Do you truly think anyone is going to buy your nationalist hogwash? You blithering buffon, the dual monachy will never succumb to such seditious sentiment! AEIOU!

~~A monarch is nothing more than the crown jewel worn by the State.~~

Dual Monachy? I’ve got anons inventing entirely new forms of government right here in my askbox.

anons asks shtpost

But yeah, I probably missed an ask some time in the last 9 hours, so if you sent one, you can send it again.

Also if you didn’t send one you can send one anyway. I tend to leave my askbox out in the open where just anyone could stuff asks in it.

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Anonymous asked:

You don't have to read the whole of unsong to get at the bit relevant to your concept of omnibenevolence, as the author of the book posted it before the book started as a separate post google "slate star codex answer to job"

Yeah, I’ve read that one.

There are probably other ways to go about it as well. The point is less about that specific way, and more that “omnibenevolent” can be rescued, but only if it looks like something other than what religion says it looks like.

anons philo

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What if free will is normally distributed and sociopaths are the righthand tail. Not sure what the lefthand tail would be though?

This is an interesting ask, but I’m not sure what the left-hand tail would be, either. Either way, I tend to believe that our ability to self-control is somewhat limited and thus consequences should also be limited, usually.

Sometimes the consequences need to be more severe because of incentives and the structure of society. It isn’t really something to be celebrated, just something we have to put up with.

At some point it doesn’t matter if Godzilla can’t help himself. He must be removed from Tokyo.

philo anons

Anonymous asked:

Hating men for no reason won't solve your personal problems

I was really expecting to be accused of misogyny, actually. I’m trying to calculate how many levels of misdirection this ask is on.

Maybe it’s about this post?

They can’t undo Toxic Masculinity, because they don’t understand Masculinity, and they don’t want to.
…because that would mean understanding things about themselves that they don’t want to understand, either.

In which the “they” is actually Mainstream Feminists.

Patterns of male behavior are in part driven by what straight women like/don’t like, or more accurately who they treat as hot/not hot, who they date/don’t date, etc.

Undoing what the Mainstream Feminists call “toxic masculinity” would mean that straight women, on average, would have to change, which would mean they’d have to first understand how cishet female preferences shape the very male power/dominance/status hierarchies they ostensibly oppose.

However, Feminism does poorly at attributing agency and power to women (beyond some of the “rah rah, girl power” stuff), as it’s more politically useful to present as the unpowered underdog.

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But yeah, the implications for theology convinced me of MWI's truth value significantly more than its implications for physics did.

I mean, the incongruence of infinite punishment convinced me more that religion was false than a number of things, so that does make sense.

anons asks perpendicular wood

Anonymous asked:

IMO the many worlds interpretation is the single most shockingly underused response to the "omniscience of God vs free will" dilemma; I suppose that Christian apologists and theoretical physicists must simply travel in the same circles infrequently. God knows exactly what you're going to do, and the answer is an unimaginably large number of different things which separate yous will experience. Every moment has a single past and a vast variety of futures.

That was along the lines of something I considered, although I don’t really believe in Many Worlds myself.

Omnibenevolence shouldn’t be something we look at and it’s clearly wrong, but it could be something we look at and it’s clearly alien. So, “make all possible worlds, such that all possible people have a chance to exist” is more along the lines of what one would expect. Or, “God cannot imagine a world without creating it” (nesting realities proposal) “and this is part of the reason evil exists - lack of infinite forethought”.

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