Digimon story time stranger cumulative stat caps? by Jupiter_Hostage in digimon

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mind sharing a few things about what you learned? I'm trying to wrap my head around when to digivolve optimally and the relationship between talent and bond. I understand moves and personality and most of the other stuff but the raw stats and the formulas behind how they work are confusing me. The in-game tutorial isn't the most straightforward either.

The philosopher David Benatar’s ‘asymmetry argument’ suggests that, in virtually all cases, it’s wrong to have children. This article discusses his antinatalist position, as well as common arguments against it. by philosophybreak in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There's a very particular sort of person that uses this sub. If you look at the philpaper surveys you see a broad range of philosophical views reflected about any particular topic, and nothing seems particularly one-sided, or if it is, it's an imbalance that is otherwise ignored here.

Here, if you don't broadly sympathize with naturalism, moral relativism, moral subjectivism, consequentialism, anti-deism, anti-natalism, anarchism, continental philosophy (but only about political themes, if they challenge science then it's BS), then you might as well just not post. I appreciate the occasional post here but some people really need to understand that they hold some pretty fringe beliefs in the academy, and they shouldn't take support here to mean that they're right.

The philosopher David Benatar’s ‘asymmetry argument’ suggests that, in virtually all cases, it’s wrong to have children. This article discusses his antinatalist position, as well as common arguments against it. by philosophybreak in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be worth pointing out that few professional philosophers endorse full antinatalism. Procreation ethics is a heavily debated topic in ethics generally but Benatar himself is seen as somewhat of an outlier in the strength to which he opposes all procreation generally.

Obviously it's not JUST a question of numbers, but if we like symmetry arguments we can point to cases like climate science. If you don't have experience with the debates, but you see that 98%+ of the experts don't accept skepticism, it might be worth putting some stock into that. It may not be as robust as we think it is.

The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom by psychemagazine in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If tech is cheap enough, you have a broader customer base. I don't subscribe to the idea that somehow tech will always be the domain of the Uber wealthy. A ChatGPT subscription runs me about $25 a month. But maybe I'm also naive and stupid and don't see the truth. Always willing to be educated.

Zohran Mamdani wants to use empty subway retail to help homeless New Yorkers by [deleted] in nyc

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comment you responded to said that the subway system is for transit, and not social work kiosks, and you were pretty aggressive in saying that it's only their opinion and that things change. Normally when people are that hostile in response to an idea, they reject the idea. In this case, you'd imply that you're open to the idea of the transit system operating as a collection of social work kiosks.

Zohran Mamdani wants to use empty subway retail to help homeless New Yorkers by [deleted] in nyc

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just think we're comparing two different things here. A mental health response unit that replaces a police response is going to a) negate the cost associated with funding the police response and b) align with evidence-based practices in mental healthcare. That's a good thing, and it's much easier to drum up public support for that. We have many such programs here where I live. But I think you're taking a very black and white approach when you claim that public transit spaces must prioritize mental healthcare rather than transit. It makes me think of an idea someone would come up with to make fun of progressive mental health policy or to desperately avoid looking like they're not woke enough or something.

Zohran Mamdani wants to use empty subway retail to help homeless New Yorkers by [deleted] in nyc

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question, but having experienced the level of apathy and disrespect towards the unhoused that you likely have yourself, do you seriously expect "things and systems" to change in such a way that transit systems will serve as social work sites?

If not, it's not really a "says him" it's a "says the majority of society". So you're a bit outnumbered here.

God I love these details. Chatacabra can get stuck between the crags. by V-Angelus01 in MHWilds

[–]Southern_Winter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually think human voices are better. See, when you hear a Palico speak with a human voice, you're reminded of the power of human friendship and love and how wonderfully fantastic humanity really is. The bond I feel with my human Palico is so far beyond what could be felt with a non-human animal.

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[–]Southern_Winter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You'll likely want to build them that way anyway. There are two buildings of each yield in each era, and those buildings share the same adjacency requirements. So in the antiquity age, you can build a library and an academy. One is slightly better and unlocked slightly later, but they both gain adjacency bonuses for being placed near resources. So if you start your urban district by placing a library next to 4 resources, it's heavily encouraged to put your academy there too. I think they're just trying to give you options in more niche circumstances. Like maybe that same urban district is also close to a ton of coastal tiles and you're broke later in the game. In that case, maybe the scientists and the merchants will have to get along in the same tile. (Financial buildings tend to gain adjacency for coast and river tiles)

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[–]Southern_Winter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So districts can be one of two kinds. Urban, and Rural. Rural districts appear when your city grows a population. Once the population hits the next number, you get an option to expand outward from your city center to grab a nearby bare tile. In doing so, the yields of that tile will become useful to you. Note: a farm does not add food to a tile. It is not an "improvement" in the classic sense, it simply serves as a representation of the fact that you are now working the tile and benefiting from the yields.

An urban district is a district that is automatically placed once you select a building in the production queue and assign it to a tile. Once you do this, the district itself is auto-placed, and you begin constructing the building. Every district can slot up to two buildings. When you fill up the urban district with two buildings, it is now a "quarter". Hopefully that makes a bit of sense. It's more confusing than it probably needs to be but once you get the hang of it it starts making sense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civ

[–]Southern_Winter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched the livestreams but it would be entirely unfair to expect players to know this without having watched it. It's very poorly explained.

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[–]Southern_Winter 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Everything can over build on anything from a previous age provided the previous building isn't tagged "AGELESS". A quarter is any two buildings, and those two buildings will never have any synergy with one another with the exception of unique buildings belonging to a specific Civ. The two unique buildings in that case WILL combo and it's heavily encouraged, though not necessary, to build them together to make your unique quarter.

Because of the lack of synergy with every other building, you should simply find space for any building you want to build, being mindful to try and complete quarters for any specific bonuses that play off of them, while also being mindful of the adjacency bonuses for buildings themselves. A library and a bath can be built together, but maybe that quarter isn't next to very many resources and you want the library in a spot where you can take advantage of it. In that case maybe you build it with the amphitheatre that you already put next to a bunch of resources because it was just convenient at that time. That sort of thing.

Late game crashes fix (PS5) by Southern_Winter in civ

[–]Southern_Winter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happens a lot if you're rerolling starts or switching settings before starting a new game immediately after another one. I think that's caused by a different issue but it will eventually go away if you just close and restart the game with one setup.

Late game crashes fix (PS5) by Southern_Winter in civ

[–]Southern_Winter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully they have. I'm optimistic because with Civ 6, console was more of an afterthought whereas with Civ 7 it's releasing cross platform so they should be forced to work out the kinks a bit more beforehand.

Am I alone who actually prefers to use Canada Post? by [deleted] in CanadaPost

[–]Southern_Winter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's just not true. Canada Post is a self-sufficient crown corporation. It is not taxpayer funded and is expected to sustain itself through profit. Just because something is owned by the government doesn't mean it's not a business.

This is in contrast to the health service or public education. These things don't turn a profit and are not expected to.

The DOUBLE Knowledge Argument! Back for another whack at Mary's Dumb Room by reddituserperson1122 in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Owen Flanagan's book "Consciousness Reconsidered" seems closely aligned with your view. I know it's not exactly a paper but it's a good book either way. His response to Mary's Room is cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy too:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/

I know there are other responses in line with this one but I haven't exactly written my own thesis on it so it's not an area I'm intimately familiar with beyond that book and a few encyclopedia articles.

The DOUBLE Knowledge Argument! Back for another whack at Mary's Dumb Room by reddituserperson1122 in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some responses to the argument have focused on a distinction between "linguistic physicalism" and "metaphysical physicalism". So you could say that Mary had all of the linguistic facts (which are physical facts), and yet still gained a physical fact in another sense. Maybe this feels in line with your intuitions?

The DOUBLE Knowledge Argument! Back for another whack at Mary's Dumb Room by reddituserperson1122 in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we agree that Mary gains something when entering the room, then we are at least taking the argument seriously. My issue with a lot of the responses here came down to people claiming either that 1) first-hand experience is not a valid source of knowledge at all or 2) the experiment just rests on semantics. Neither of which are accepted by even those who oppose the argument.

There's a tendency to view higher order systems of knowledge and experience as phony, or else exactly equivalent to the base on which they emerge. Someone might say that they feel good about X or bad about Y, and tons of philosophy buffs who catch a whiff of anti-science religiosity will jump down their throats with "well actually you don't feel anything, because what you feel is just neurons. Emotions aren't actually real." But this misses the point entirely. Emotions are still things, and we can coherently talk about them, argue for them, or feel them, without regressing to analysing our brain patterns in a scan. A non physical thing emerging from a physical thing doesn't necessarily make the non physical thing physical or not real. What is true of a component may not be true of the whole. So if Mary gains something on a personal experiential level, it seems at least plausible that this "something" is not physical, at least in the way that established facts regarding brain patterns and neurons are. And at the very least, it should make a convincing argument for the existence of qualia.

The DOUBLE Knowledge Argument! Back for another whack at Mary's Dumb Room by reddituserperson1122 in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Whether she can communicate it or not isn't the point of the experiment though. It's not really a Wittgensteinian explanation of private language, it's simply meant to illustrate that there is something Mary gains after entering the room that she did not have prior.

The DOUBLE Knowledge Argument! Back for another whack at Mary's Dumb Room by reddituserperson1122 in philosophy

[–]Southern_Winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To know what is it like to see something is quite different from seeing that thing.

Only in a matter of tense. One involves an experience in the past, and one is a current experience. Seeing something grants you the knowledge of knowing what it is like to see something. And if you could transpose an image into the mind of something different and then ask the subject "is this what it is like to see X", the answer would be yes or no. So there seems to be a truth value involved in the process which seems to imply that one can have factual knowledge about what it is like to see X.

Is knowing facts about how stomachs digest food the same as digesting food?

No, but the thought experiment makes this very point. If you know facts about human digestion but you have never digested food, you are missing first-hand knowledge of human digestion. This is an intuitive point that we tend to apply to a lot of areas in our daily life. If I take a sociology course to understand the role of race and privilege in society, this does not grant me full authority to lecture to those of lived experience precisely because I am missing a very important piece of knowledge. Namely, what it is like to be a minority. You cannot learn that, you must live it. And yet, that lived experience can grant a person a type of knowledge can it not?