Jerkface (any/all)

AFAB genetalia

It’s called a vulva. You can say vulva, even if its on a man or person of unknown disposition. I get that some people don’t like to use gender-suggestive words for their own body parts, but it’s a euphemism treadmill and soon you won’t be able to say “AFAB” if you get on it.

Do you mean cash, money, or wealth?

Useful datapoint.

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You are not gonna like the next 20 years.

I have a more developed level of conciseness compared to [a particular dog].

Can you tell me what that looks like?

I don’t especially believe that humans are maximally conscious, any more than we were any of the other pinnacles of biological development that we always thought we were. Our main super powers are that we sweat, run, and easily consume starch, and you don’t really need more than that to explain us. If consciousness is indeed a gradient, I think it’s just more hubris to assume we are the “most conscious”.

But it’s a really hard thing to discuss, let alone quantify. I’d love to know your kind of feeling of what more or less conscious looks like.

This is exactly where my thoughts have been leading. Consciousness is a fundamentally INTRA-cellular process, that is augmented by INTER-cellular effects. Neurons are merely specialized to support (among other things) higher consciousness, but every cell participates in some form of it.

These ideas go a long way to explain things like the somatic effects of trauma, personality aspects being transmitted through organ transplant, the obviously aware and self-interested behavior of micro-organisms, the way mental complexity doesn’t really seem to scale with organism size, and a lot of other things that I have been thinking about that perhaps get a bit more metaphysical.

I suspect that consciousness is not generated but rather captured and exploited by biological systems.

I’m writing a game that explores a lot of these concepts.

Most programming languages just remix tested and true CS concepts. Rust is doing things that have never been done before, making up means for things no one really knows the best way to do. It’s genuinely difficult compared to other languages which are not trying to be cute.

Doug Henning was very nearly Prime Minister, except no one voted for the Natural Law Party.

Yes, code golf practiced for any reason other than the sheer joy of it is “stupid.” It especially doesn’t belong in production code. If typing is really so bad, there are any number of local agents that are competent to finish that map fragment for you.

The pros are that it cannot be used as leverage against your interests by the vendor, and it’s basically UNIX. But I mean, by that criteria, one should run BSD.

Last time I heard this was 30 years ago, and a man was asking a genie who was going to give his wife double to scare him half to death.

I mean, it’s not AI doing this. AI doesn’t have a gun to anyone’s head.

Timberborn recently hit 1.0, it’s good.

I know this game and this feels like something only the developer’s mother would say. It’s fine!

Abiotic Factor is pretty amazing. I’ll play with ya.

The downfall of any good indie game is that it’s a target for acquisition. Anything we love can be turned against us. ROCKET LEAGUE.

sugar is pretty fucking bad anyway. sweeteners are a trap.

They fucking absolutely do. And even if they didn’t, I’m sorry to tell you, killing animals that don’t want to die is cruel and violent. Doing so for sensory pleasure or wealth is deeply wrong. The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.

Your second point is speculative. It’s something you clearly don’t know, but you’re choosing to believe because it gives cover and distraction to cruelty and violence.

just use awk

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