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New comment by xycombinator in "Deliberately optimizing for harm"

xycombinator — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:30:49 +0000

Is anybody searching for compounds that reduce evil intent? Something that would mellow people out without causing hallucinations. A mass tranquilizer? Not effective against lone operatives but able to be deployed against an invading army.

New comment by xycombinator in "From chaos to free will"

xycombinator — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:09:19 +0000

So do you critics of the article adhere to the belief that the current state of the universe is predictable from the initial state and the laws of physics?

Does that prediction take time? If it doesn't, if it is instantaneous, it's just a hand-waving god. If the prediction for any given instant takes trillions of years, it's meaningless.

How am I supposed to see it as anything other than an obstinate adherence to a principle, an unfalsifiable dogma?

New comment by xycombinator in "Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen"

xycombinator — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:46:06 +0000

I keep all security questions and answers in Keepass. If you had done that would you have been locked out?

New comment by xycombinator in "Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot"

xycombinator — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:18:41 +0000

>Nobody wants to be sexist, and nobody responds well to suggestions that their behaviors were unintentionally sexist

Maybe some of Jay Smooth's TED Talk on racism (http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxHampshireCollege-Jay-Smoo... apply to sexism.

New comment by xycombinator in "If this then that"

xycombinator — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:21:59 +0000

Can the Action for a Trigger be a different Trigger?