Consciousness and Materialism
Hume’s ParallelDavid Hume has often been quoted for his “Is” vs. “Ought” distinction.
The argument is that fact and morality are two different domains, and from no accumulation of statements of fact alone can we ever jump to a statement of morality.
We can say statements of fact such as:
- To be murdered is potentially painful.
- To be murdered is irreversible.
- Murder causes social dysfunction.
- Etc. …
By merely my collecting these, we haven’t proven that _M … ⌘ Read more
Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit… ⌘ Read more
Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023
I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.
Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more
Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023
I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.
Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Its just dead simple.. and others will salt which makes repeatability in examples a pain.
** Occasional notes **
If they aren’t weekly, I guess they’re occasional?
3rd repair procedure to fix brain bleed was a success. I have a few more scans and follow ups, but, knock wood I think I’m through at this point.
I’ve spent about a week laying low and taking it easy navigating some wild pain, but that is subsiding now. I watched a bunch of stuff. It was a nice change of pace. I don’t typically watch much television or many movies. Stand outs (all things I revisited) include:
- Michael Clayton
- Point Break, the o … ⌘ Read more
❤️ 🎶: How painful it must be to forget by ALi
Fewer billionaires in mainland China as ultra-wealthy feel pain of Beijing’s tech, property crackdowns, study says
The ranks of the ultra-wealthy in mainland China slipped slightly last year as wealth creation was subdued by Beijing’s crackdowns on the technology and property sectors, according to a study by New York-based Wealth-X. ⌘ Read more
Russia’s Putin visits ‘friendly’ Central Asia on first trip abroad during war
Russia has been at pains to show it’s not under international isolation despite unprecedented US and European sanctions imposed over its attack on Ukraine. ⌘ Read more
Brave battle of Chinese cancer boy, 8, who has overcome 4 surgeries and dozens of painful treatments, captures hearts on social media
Xiaoxuan is a plucky eight-year-old Chinese boy who has been fighting cancer despite four years of pain and endless rounds of surgery and treatment. ⌘ Read more
World leaders seek united front for Ukraine at key summits as war rages
Back-to-back summits over the next week will test Western resolve to support Ukraine as rising geopolitical tensions and economic pain cast an increasingly long shadow. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine war: Putin’s security chief vows to inflict pain on Lithuania over Kaliningrad goods blockade
Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, threatened retaliation after Lithuania banned the transit of sanctioned goods to the Baltic exclave. ⌘ Read more
China vows to crack down on online racism, spurred by new details of video featuring Malawi children
Malawian foreign minister says her country feels ‘disgusted, disrespected and deeply pained’ by video in which children repeat demeaning words in Chinese. ⌘ Read more
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life | Hacker News
have to admit that switching to python & numpy for data analysis from klong relieves me from a huge pain in the ass—klong is just slow for that.
You’re well-aware of the benefits of a healthier lifestyle: less pain, more energy, more mobility and autonomy, a higher life expectancy, and so on and so forth ad nauseam. Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn’t compel you to action. Your behavior mostly follows simple hyperbolic discounting - healthy actions pay off in the future, but the future is far away, and your TV / smartphone / snack is much closer. Why Take Care Of Your Health? - LessWrong
How Dependabot empowers you to keep your projects secure
We want to take away the pain and effort of keeping your code secure, so check out how Dependabot empowers developers to keep to their projects secure. ⌘ Read more
twtxting from my old laptop! stuck in bed with a nasty back pain, trying to come up with a small fun project to take my mind off it
I Shouldn’t Complain
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I Shouldn’t Complain
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Le Pain – Is That How You Want Me to Feel?
LA band Le Pain share yet another irresistible new jam… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
❤️ 🎶: Our love was pain (Nth Romance X Baek Z Young) by Baek Ji Young
might have found the way to tune into the state where you let the tension/horniness/anxiety/pain/frustration do its thing down/in/over there in the body/space around me
there are two types of panpsychism, and they can be distinguished by asking “if i shatter this glass, will it feel pain?”. one answers “yes”, the other answers “no clue, but probably not”
https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/tmux-plugins-tools/?full_name=tmux-plugins%2Ftmux-pain-control pane navigation bindings
Webinar Recap: Docker Business – Management & Security at Scale
Recently, Docker Head of Developer Relations Peter McKee and Docker Head of Sales Scott Campbell led a webinar to spotlight the new Docker Business tier. During the webinar, Peter and Scott drill down into Docker Business, the pain points it addresses, the incredible value Docker Desktop packs under the hood, what makes Docker itself such […]
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Negativity Bias - Biases & Heuristics | The Decision Lab
Negativity bias is linked to loss aversion, a cognitive bias that describes why the pain of losing is psychologically twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining. ⌘ Read more
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challenge for qualia relationism: it seems plausible that for a relation between two qualia to be established to actually create the quality of the experience, they should occur at near points in time. however, people in great pain don’t usually at the same time seem to recall memories of especially pleasurable moments.
Oh yeah, you know pain? Have you ever had your contact lenses on the wrong way, with ~½ a dioptrie difference?
Since you cannot go back in time to change the past, forgiveness is about giving up the hope of a different or better yesterday. It relates to forgiving actions that were taken, that gave you the feelings of loss of control over your happiness. It’s about acknowledging those things that another did or said that caused pain and making the decision that you are not going to let that hurt or control you anymore. Forgiveness can be very empowering. It can give you the chance to be free of another person’s emotional control. It has nothing to do with the other person. As was said before, it is something that is for you and you alone.” Why forgiving someone else is about you | Hacker News
Don’t document software! (If you want to avoid pain!) ⌘
Feel the pain of your friends, but more importantly, understand the pain of your enemies. (It helps if you want to cause them more, or bribe them by offering less.)
Devo - Growing Pains - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmz_xrjV1MQ
You Called for Me: Masculine Pain and Isolation in Akira – VRV Blog https://vrvblog.co/felker-martin/2555/akira-boys/
Humanity’s nascent hivemind, so far, is a blind writhing mass of pain and reflexes, simply not conscious enough to warrant contact yet
life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go
Band name of the day: a cryptography of cosmic pain
Band name of the day: the paradox of painful art
Not to be outdone by Moloch, Lucifer releases Hellcoin: Based on proof-of-pain, it rewards miners for novel ways to torture sentient beings
dig into the pain, dissect and measure it, lose sight of the whole↵↵until there’s no more suffering, just neuron spikes and physics
us: “it’s infiltrating us! aaaaAAA”↵alien: “ow these are dimensions of pain I didn’t know existed, how the hell do you cope, aaaAAAA”
And my files are created on ext3, backuped on zfs, transported via fat and then viewed on hfs+ #pain
skeleton daymares are haunted by meatsacks that evoke memories of imprisonment, suffocating heat, sticky flesh, pain