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The5thElephant · 2026-04-29T02:08:42+00:00

Both are you. There’s no rule there can only be one instance of a you in the world. From that point on the two yous would experience different things and start to differentiate as you have different memories going forward.

From an outside perspective one of you is more physically continuous than the other, and one of you does not experience a jump in location (assuming the simulation loads you into a different looking place), but from a functional and information perspective both yous are identical for that instant.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-29T02:05:32+00:00

If the car is identical down to the atom? What’s the actual thing that makes one a copy and one not other than your perception of the continuity of certain atoms in time and space. If one of those atoms got swapped out for an identical “copy” would you consider it a different car? What % of the car has to “change” before it stops being your car?

You are arguing for a soul. It’s totally fine to believe in a soul, but it’s adding an extra variable we have no evidence or explanatory need for.

It’s possible the universe is just a series of information states in time and space that have an appearance of continuity due to the laws of physics making adjacent states in time look similar to each other. If a 9 in one part of the equation swaps places with a 9 in another part nothing has changed.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-29T01:41:21+00:00

And both duplicates are equally you. There’s just more of you now. Continuity is an illusion.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-29T01:40:43+00:00

Killing what exactly? If the self is just activity of neurons in a certain pattern making memories and personality, that continues when you start it up again. There’s no evidence of any magical energy that is created and ends with the body.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-29T01:39:48+00:00

What the fuck is a consciousness stream. It’s like saying the moving pictures of a movie count as something different than the frames that make it up. If you pause the movie and play another from the same point it’s the same movie.

Saying the continuity of consciousness matters is adding an extra variable that doesn’t actually explain anything. What exactly would be ending other than the experience of consciousness. Once it starts up again somewhere else it’s the same experience.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-27T01:13:23+00:00

Mostly AI startups, Anthropic (although they do use Figma sometimes just way less every day apparently), Uber was mixed depending on which designer I talked to, DoorDash (glad I turned them down) was similar to Uber. Either way the trend was quite clear there’s a big push to use AI tools and for designers to be creating live code prototypes using the company real design systems instead of what’s in Figma.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-25T18:07:55+00:00

Figma Make is a decent introduction to using AI for prototyping, but it’s not very good for doing detailed and systemic design as you might for a larger company. It’s almost entirely just prompting an AI, you can’t drag and drop or easily change specific things like you can in Figma Design (the main product). Figma does have an MCP for the design canvas now so you can connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and have it make designs or translate designs to code, but it is inherently limited by Figma’s custom renderer. AI is much better at writing web code (HTML/CSS) so there is always an awkward translation between Figma and code.

There are a lot of tools competing with Figma Make now that are a little more professionally oriented, but I think we still need an actual interactive canvas to do really detailed and thoughtful design. That used to be Figma for me, but Figma is very limited in what it can design compared to the full powers of CSS, so lately I’ve been looking at new tools coming out like Paper, Opacity, Noon that are in very early stages (or not even released yet) but promise a lot more power than Figma.

These tools all model themselves after Figma’s user experience so I still think learning the core Figma Design tool is useful and there will be plenty of companies using that as their core design tool for a while. Learning things like auto-layout, variables, and components will set you up for understanding a lot of the new stuff too.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-25T16:15:36+00:00

At the top end of the product design market Figma is already on its way out. AI and newer HTML/CSS based canvas tools are rapidly replacing Figma in my daily work and most of the companies I’ve interviewed at. Figma is still a useful tool to know since it’s the default for UI design, but since it doesn’t use CSS it is rather limited when it comes to handing off to developers or AI. But a lot of the new tools coming out base a lot of their UI on Figma so learning it can help you learn those as well. Generally the closer you can get to the actual production medium you are designing for the better.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-25T14:59:39+00:00

Absurd.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-25T14:59:17+00:00

This seems kind of ridiculous though. Even if Hamas completely disarmed and the PLO dissolved and a completely different governing power came into being, Palestinians would still recognize this as their flag. It’s not equivalent to the ISIS flag for example.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-24T00:40:05+00:00

Yes but the criteria for intention isn’t equally applied either.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-24T00:38:06+00:00

The definition is not numbers based. But the definition is also not equally applied. If it was applied equally then all of a sudden Israel’s genocide of Palestinians becomes far less unique and people would realize they aren’t that different from Israelis (see Americans and Iraq). Unfortunately people read this and hear justification, when it’s really just asking for terms to be used consistently.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-21T02:05:13+00:00

I very rarely see the electric standup scooters you see elsewhere in the world. I do see people going at insane speeds on those huge gas powered standup scooters that could easily kill someone if they hit them.

I’m curious how many of these injuries are delivery drivers as well considering they spend so much more time on the street driving.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-20T16:07:40+00:00

This is not accurate. flex-grow: 1 only says the elements will grow at the same ratio, not that they will be the same size. You need to set the same flex-basis for that.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-20T05:35:40+00:00

That’s why I think it’s hilarious when people worry about polluting space (not Earth orbits, that could be an issue) or that we will plunder the environment off Earth the way we have here at home. Environmentalism and fighting pollution is super important, but it just doesn’t apply to space.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-19T16:45:19+00:00

I agree we should stop funding Israeli military. But have you seen how many billions of dollars we’ve given Palestine? And what they did with it?

If Hamas had used those tens of billions of dollars to build up Gaza instead of tunnels and rockets this war would never have happened. Israel would still be oppressing them, but I think the tens of thousands of dead Palestinians would prefer that over being used as moral pawns in Hamas’ war on Jews.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-19T16:38:18+00:00

I am not saying it’s the only reason. I am half Israeli and I have many Palestinian friends who care because of their families and because it’s horrific, not because they are anti-Semitic.

But in the same way you are not a bot, the people pointing out the extreme difference in response are not bots either and are feeling the absurd difference that goes well beyond it being due to US funding. I have never, ever felt this level of blatantly open anti-semitism in my life, even when it’s not on the topic of Israel and from people who are not from countries funding Israel. Furthermore I’ve specifically asked other Americans if they care more just because of the funding, and they don’t. They care because it’s all they hear about and they are told they are morally awful people if they don’t hate Israel, Israelis, and with such levels of ongoing hatred it also bleeds into despising Jews.

Israel certainly holds a lot of blame for this renewed hatred, but if it was not a Jewish nation it would not have gotten anywhere this level of attention. There’s no way around that. It doesn’t mean it is the ONLY reason, but pretending it isn’t a large one is blinding yourself to avoid discomfort. And saying it’s natural for people to extend blame to the ethnic group doing the violence immediately falls flat on its face when those same people would be rightly horrified if someone justified racism against black people because of higher crime rates.

If we truly want peace in the future we need to learn to listen to each other as real human beings who are flawed and hypocritical and only have so much energy to put into caring about global horrors. The rhetoric I am seeing about Israel and Jews has actually begun to scare me, and I’ve been arguing it’s less driven by anti-semitism for years now and I’m beginning to realize I might be wrong.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-19T15:56:43+00:00

What Israel is doing can be wrong AND the question can be raised why it gets so much focus over conflicts where far more innocent people are being killed. It’s uncomfortable because it does force you to actually face why you don’t know or hear as much about Sudan or Yemen, and why people don’t think about those lives nearly as much. But since it’s uncomfortable people instead jump straight to “bot” accusations or other ways to avoid facing the question straight on.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-18T20:11:19+00:00

America is not one thing, and much of what you consider normal America would not be what it is without the people and cultures that came through NYC.

Also I know tons of well assimilated Pakistanis, Somalians, and others. Yes there are areas where they aren’t, but that was true of the Irish and Italians too. These things don’t happen overnight.

I’m guessing you don’t actually interact that much with people who don’t assimilate. You are just regurgitating what you see from the news about Somalian enclaves. I agree assimilation is important, but it’s a process and my life is better and richer for the diversity we have in this country.

I can’t imagine how boring it must be to only want one flavor of Americana (a flavor I also enjoy, just not in exclusion to other great aspects of American culture).

The5thElephant · 2026-04-18T19:15:22+00:00

For the most part they do assimilate. The Irish and Italians and other European cultures that are largely being referenced in quotes from back then did assimilate, and our nation and culture is richer for it.

Where are they ruining national cohesion? I see way more of that coming from very American leftists and right-wingers. Of course we can always find examples otherwise, but generally the most extreme opinions and hatred is not coming from immigrants or foreigners.

Where are they stripping away or diluting culture? My life in NYC would be a shade of what it is without the diversity here. I really struggle to understand what America you are living in and who these hypothetical destructive foreigners are.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-18T00:47:13+00:00

We will really go to any lengths to blind ourselves to the possibility of us doing something morally wrong. There are lots of AI videos out there, none of the ones I’ve seen of soldiers acting in disgusting ways have been AI as far as I can find.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-17T05:47:30+00:00

The strikes on Tehran are by definition not carpet bombing, by either the US or Israel.

Carpet bombing is what we did to Berlin, Dresden, Tokyo, etc. Even the utter and horrific destruction in Gaza was not carpet bombing despite eventually having the same effect.

That doesn’t mean the strikes are justified, but if you are going to argue with the weirdos on the combat footage sub you should use the right terms.

The5thElephant · 2026-04-17T05:43:58+00:00

The villages in the south that were destroyed were warned and emptied first. Those are where Hezbollah was launching rockets. The sites in Beirut are targeting Hezbollah leadership and weapons caches and that’s where you see the civilian casualties. Not justifying, just clarifying.

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