Recent content by Diplodocus462

Temporal. It's a puzzle game where you have to go back in time and interact with (and team up with) your past selves to solve puzzles. It's like a cross between Braid and Portal, but 2D. It's also freeware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_(video_game)

This: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion

To be honest I tried very hard to like this game. I have restarted it multiple times and always with the intention of getting into it. I just find it too hard. I don't believe I'm just some idiot, but I was constantly disoriented. Sometimes you would be sent off on a quest to an unexplored...

I can only assume that you did not watch the video I suggested, so I hope that you will at least read to the end of this response. Whether something is ethical or not is completely independent of whether it is a natural behaviour. How is it at all relevant how your 'ancestors' 'got to the top...

Yes. Is someone going to ask a better one?

Yes. Will we have general AI within the next 50 years?

There is, I would say, in excess of 10% chance that you will live to be functionally immortal. Additionally, within decades we may get the ability to reverse engineer unhappiness out of our conscious experience. Those are the two things that make me feel most exhilirated, and cheer me up.

I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat, so all my fellow meat eaters should listen to my argument, since I'm on your 'team'! Ok, firstly, it is totally irrelevant whether eating meat is 'natural'. There are evolutionary bases for any number of human behaviours, *including* things that no one wants...

@ The guy talking about tofu: Tofu has a very high protein content, can be cooked like meat, and its production does not result in the death or suffering of any animals. Veganism is an extension of the ethical ideas underlying vegetarianism. For instance, hens in factory farms suffer...

Many people are vegetarians because they believe that it is unethical to kill animals for meat. A mini-summary might be proposed as follows: Yes, meat is tasty to eat. But is it really ethically acceptable that an animal should have to suffer throughout most of its life and then be killed merely...

No matter how much your intuitions scream in protest, the right thing to do is to suffocate the baby. The baby has seconds to live no matter which option you choose, and if you suffocate it quickly, you could save the lives of other people who do not have to die. In my view what this thought...

Why is loving your country a prerequisite for being a good person? I love my world, and the people who live in it. In case you hadn't noticed, you have to live somewhere; someone who isn't willing to die for their country probably doesn't have any country they are willing to die for, and that's...

Bring on the augmentation; as soon as its safe, cheap and socially acceptable you will find me lining up along with everyone else.

Are you f**king crazy? Tacos are about 50x better :)

They're both chaotic evil, as any leaderless group will tend to be. Anonymous has some worthy goals, but with no central leadership they can't stop the nastier elements of the group from undermining their mission.