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New comment by kmonsen in "Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing"

kmonsen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:45:34 +0000

I do think it’s possible that God and evil are a set of norms that help society (or actually their leaders) thrive, but are presented as universal values.

I think there is a huge distinction to what it’s good for the average person in society vs what is good for the rulers, and it is unclear which one of those you mean.

Most religions are here to support the rulers.

New comment by kmonsen in "Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing"

kmonsen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:49:43 +0000

I agree science doesn’t give good answers for good and evil, for me religion gives even worse answers. For example the Bible is clearly in favor of slavery as an institution. Other religions like Buddhism are for me better.

The scary part is that there may not be a good or evil, and the answers we have are just made up stuff.

New comment by kmonsen in "Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing"

kmonsen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:34:27 +0000

The goal of science is to disprove our theories so we can find out if they are true, and hopefully replace them with improved versions.

The goal of religious study is to try to prove that it is not impossible, not that it is a probably reading of what happened. To find some absurd way of reconciling different stories. I have no idea how you can call that an answer.

New comment by kmonsen in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

kmonsen — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:37:34 +0000

Please tell us why WW2 started and how that is related.

New comment by kmonsen in "Argentina president faces impeachment calls over crypto crash"

kmonsen — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:39:59 +0000

But he said it was a meme coin and not an investment opportunity? I mean I think Trump should be impeached yesterday, but maybe not for that one?

New comment by kmonsen in "BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free"

kmonsen — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:48:34 +0000

Isn’t that including tax breaks? Yes after checking the cheapest is $42k the advertised price includes 7500 tax break and 5000 in gas savings.

New comment by kmonsen in "IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs"

kmonsen — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:17:19 +0000

Being helpful to 2/3 might be enough to lay off 1/3

New comment by kmonsen in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

kmonsen — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:24:11 +0000

I don't think most people would agree on what is an A, B or C.

New comment by kmonsen in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

kmonsen — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:21:03 +0000

At least for me that was not true, I came back to Google after more than two years and did not have to interview.

New comment by kmonsen in "Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles"

kmonsen — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:46:18 +0000

Race is clearly cultural in todays society because we can make it so. Very unlikely to be genetically culturally if that is what you are saying (but of course, who knows).

New comment by kmonsen in "Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature"

kmonsen — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:58:51 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe is almost 4000 years older. Not sure if it meets your definition of city, but it was some sort of human settlement

New comment by kmonsen in "Sitters and Standers"

kmonsen — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:18:36 +0000

I work for a FAANG and a month, well planned, vacation is totally OK. If I want to take a week of I more or less need no notice, but for a month it would be expected I plan ahead what the people I work with should do.

I have 5 weeks vacation and unlimited sick days every year.

New comment by kmonsen in "M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film"

kmonsen — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:46:51 +0000

I think Apple does not specify to give themselves flexibility to change. It’s not sure everyone will get the same panel.

New comment by kmonsen in "Kagi Translate"

kmonsen — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:51:21 +0000

This is kind of natural for a new service, one of the advantages the big players have is a giant test corpus. For less mainstream languages and terms it will be more noticeable.

New comment by kmonsen in "UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius"

kmonsen — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:25:28 +0000

Parliament can for sure overrule the will of the people, and very often do.

They might get punished in the next election or they may not.

More precisely only the PM can call an election I believe.

New comment by kmonsen in "UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius"

kmonsen — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:15:46 +0000

China threatened to cut off water. UK did not have any meaningful way of keeping HK without strong US support.

New comment by kmonsen in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

kmonsen — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:35:21 +0000

Which is why we are seeing return to office right now.

New comment by kmonsen in "T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next"

kmonsen — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:56:30 +0000

That’s also what CA does

New comment by kmonsen in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

kmonsen — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:18:27 +0000

I think there have already been cases of human crossover this year

New comment by kmonsen in "The NYPD sent a warrantless subpoena for a copwatcher's Twitter account"

kmonsen — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:14:18 +0000

Isn't QI fully something the supreme court made up and unlikely to go away whatever congress does?