I just thoroughly disproved their claim that “objective morality” comes from God a couple days ago, and the nut just kept yammering incoherently.

Just report, block, and move on. They’re not worth wasting your time on

I wouldn’t exactly call lemmy.ml a far left server. They’re more tankies, which is more defined by the philosophy of “America Bad, so their rivals must be Good”.

As a US citizen, the country has a lot of problems (especially with the current administration) but Putin and Jinping are still authoritarian despots.

If only. So many people repeated this lie in the past and never got their comeuppance

But listen, epistemologically, you’ll encounter the is-ought problem, and without taking an “objective judge” into consideration morality will always be fought by corrupt scholars.

You literally ignored the entire point behind my previous comment. You don’t need to establish an “objective judge” because the traditional ideas of morality are already observable as an optimal strategy to go through life, and we can observe it via experimentation.

I don’t get why you insist on a nonsensical rant instead of just letting the other person have the last word when they prove you wrong. And at this point, I don’t care. You’re not worth wasting anymore time on. If you insist on sticming your head in the sand and ignore reality, then go ahead, but you’re not going to be bothering me with it because you’re getting blocked. Tata

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about

The problem with Sig is they work too oftem, particularly when you don’t want them to

It still needs to get over the hurdle of VR headsets being heavy

It’s not necessarily about weight, so much as balance. An unbalanced headset puts alll the weight on the wearer’s nose and cheeks. The Steam Frame addresses this by moving the battery to the back of the user’s head, making the headset significantly more balanced

And how can I talk about objective morality without God?

Here it is! Here it fucking is! The single most overused thought-terminating fallacy that Jesus nuts like to pull out!

The answer to your question is that we don’t need a deity to declare what objective right and wrong are. We can use game theory. If you want to watch an admittedly better explanation of it, Veritasium made a video on it last year, but I’ll recap it below.

Decades ago, researchers set up an experiment where they paired various algorithms against each other, with each algorithm having different rules for approaching the prisoner dillema. And each pairing went on for hundreds of turns. Then the researchers tallied up all the scores. Thry noticed that almost all of the “nice” algorithms scored higher then almost all of the “mean” algorithms. And they redid the experiment multiple times with tweaks to the experiment, like randomizing the length of interactions between algorithms.

The overall rules that caused this highest scores were:

1. Start off picking the option to cooperate
2. After the first exchange, respond in the same way they were treated in the first round
3. A decision to not cooperate only affects the next decision, it doesn’t continuously affect every decision after that
4. On rare occasions (<10%), cooperate on the next turn even if the other algorithm chose to not cooperate.

Essentially it boils dowm to being polite, treating others how you wish to be treated, and being forgiving past transgressions. Strangely similar to what religions tend to teach, right?

It turns out, these are actually emergent properties that appear in any system where you have series of interactions between individuals. It’s not divine provenance, it’s natural selection.

The smart ones just take the product out of the packaging and leave it on the shelf somewhere.

Wait, so they take packaging but not the item? Weird.

/s

Not really, and that’s extrapolating from God’s words

1: No it isn’t. 2: Don’t bring religion into this

In the US, there’s congressmen who’ve been bought for less than 6-figures

Behind the Bastards had a different take. A lot of fascist movements get wierdly focussed on futurism and try to portray their movements as belonging in said future. Unfortunately I can’t remember the exact episodes this was mentioned

Logitech makes decent, and sometimes great, hardware.

Until they discontinue loved products with no clear replacement

Fabric softener isn’t going to kill your towels’ absorbancy with a single wash. You’d have to use fabric softener every wash for an extended period of time to achieve that

Apart from the first post, this doesn’t exist in PF1

I prefer to just abbreviate it as 'morning. Then it can be interpreted as an observation that it is, in fact, morning

That didn’t work out for GTA back in the day

Can we please wait until wayland can actually replace x11

Unfortunately there’s always devs that refuse to change so long as their setup still works, even if there’s significantly better alternatives. The only option for dealing with them is to rip off the bandaid. Either they’ll put in the work to keep up or they’ll fall into obscyrity

Under the new rules, online service providers must assess the risk that their services could be misused to spread depictions of child sexual abuse or to contact children. Based on this assessment, they must take measures to mitigate this risk.

(Emphasis mine)

That is not actually voluntary. The drafters of this bill are playing wordgames to trick committee members into passing mandatory chat scanning.

One strike exploded a tree in the back yard overnight, so I was about 30 feet away. I’m a fairly heavy sleeper when it comes to noise but it woke me up anyway.