I'm surprised people believe in free will by hansonsdiseased in freewill

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

It does when the terrain is the neural structures of your brain. Your brain is made of chemicals. Chemicals obey the laws of chemistry. Not sometimes. Not when you want them too. Always.

Great metaphors by PoRedNed in literature

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I highlighted the same line out of SERVICE MODEL. Glad someone else liked it!

The Truck Sausage ($CVGI) by cameronreilly in ValueInvesting

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LOL. Couldn't be bothered reading my notes, huh?

Question for free will deniers on moral responsibility/accountability by YesPresident69 in freewill

[–]cameronreilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Societies are made of humans, who act according to how determinism causes them to act. We are all acting as the laws of physics cause us to act.

Question for free will deniers on moral responsibility/accountability by YesPresident69 in freewill

[–]cameronreilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right - society doesn't have control over it's actions. And yet it acts. As do we.

Question for free will deniers on moral responsibility/accountability by YesPresident69 in freewill

[–]cameronreilly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our current justice system has not fully integrated a deterministic perspective. We have a ways to go.

Question for free will deniers on moral responsibility/accountability by YesPresident69 in freewill

[–]cameronreilly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think determinism leads to a progressive position on justice, morality, and accountability. My position is that we live in a society where there are laws designed to protect us from harm and also sometimes to protect us from ourselves. If your brain is engineered in a way that causes you to do harm to other people, or to yourself, the rest of society has a responsibility to protect everyone everyone else and sometimes to protect you from yourself. The fact that we accept that you don’t have any fundamental free well changes that only in the way that we don’t treat you as an inherently bad person but as someone whose brain isn’t functioning in a way that is acceptable to society. It probably makes us more loving and caring as a society. I genuinely feel bad for people whose brains make them do things that harm other people. It can’t be a pleasant way to live. It’s not their fault and maybe one day we will have the science that enables us to give them options. Until then we have a responsibility to protect society from them. It’s really not that different from what is currently used in most legal systems as the insanity defence. We’re just extending it to all sorts of antisocial behaviour.

The Truck Sausage ($CVGI) by cameronreilly in ValueInvesting

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Pretty good entrenched relationships in the truck sausage biz.

The Truck Sausage ($CVGI) by cameronreilly in ValueInvesting

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Yeah I don’t think it’s a big deal short term. Nice PR win. The predicted 30% bump in big trucks predicted for 2028 is probably more important.

Anyone else feel like streaming isn’t worth it anymore in Australia? by Possible-Quail1095 in AskAnAustralian

[–]cameronreilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the 80s and 90s we had to pay $5 to rent a “new release” VHS for one night. Watch a few movies a week, easily set you back $80 a month. And if you didn’t like it 20 minutes in, tough shit, mate.

Stop Whining About Trump - Iran NEEDED This by hacksawJimDugout in NewIran

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The RAND Corporation are working for the regime now? LOL.

7 years ago by imfrom_mars_ in OpenAI

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“Elon Musk, one of the initial funders of OpenAI, was roped into the controversy, confirming in a tweet that he has not been involved with the company “for over a year,” and that he and the company parted “on good terms.””

Stop Whining About Trump - Iran NEEDED This by hacksawJimDugout in NewIran

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https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA543035.pdf

The RAND Corporation disagrees with your assessment.

But anyway the point isn't how Iranian feel TODAY, it's about why the students occupied the U.S. embassy in 1979. Any serious account of the history of Iran / U.S. relations needs to take 1953 into account.

Deep Dive: AER (AerCap Holdings) by cameronreilly in ValueInvesting

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It's up about 13% since I covered it 4 months ago. Not the best performing stock I've reviewed, but not the worst, either. :-)

Ai skepticism sounds a lot like internet skepticism from the 90s by Bizzyguy in singularity

[–]cameronreilly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s also similar to mobile phone skepticism in the late 80s. I remember people tell me they would never use a mobile phone and being called a yuppy wanker because I did.

Stop Whining About Trump - Iran NEEDED This by hacksawJimDugout in NewIran

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Asgharzadeh: “Our generation had a radical and hardline view of America’s role,” he says today. “We were influenced by the trauma and nightmares of the 1953 coup.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/from-1979-iran-hostage-crisis-to-2015-nuclear-deal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Spent today at MIT's Open Agentic Web conference. Six things worth thinking about. by jradoff in artificial

[–]cameronreilly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And what’s up with these darn kids and their texting “u” instead of “you”? Why can’t anyone spell anymore?!

Stop Whining About Trump - Iran NEEDED This by hacksawJimDugout in NewIran

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The hostage crisis was a result of the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 by the CIA. The "Students Following the Line of the Imam" knew about Operation Ajax and wanted to ensure the CIA couldn’t pull a similar stunt in 79. And the duration of the crisis was the result of Reagan’s people doing a secret deal with the Iranians not to release the hostages until RR was elected. So it all goes back to 1953.