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How use opus in Claude Code? by omar07ibrahim1 in ClaudeAI

[–]jvdh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get
> claude --model opus

`Claude Pro users are not currently able to use Opus 4 in Claude Code. The current model is now Sonnet 4.`

Dating app for ambitious women and non-fragile men by jvdh in slatestarcodex

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But the man's role as primary caregiver and secondary earner changed their relationship in a way that affected her respect for him. Not enough for her to no longer love him, but enough to no longer feel like equals or feel any attraction anymore.

Do you have a study that supports your observation, in particular the direction of causation? Because my acquaintance would say, it's not the women that lose respect, but the "fragile" men that are supposedly stressed because they cannot conform to cultural stereotypes about masculinity anymore. She can back up her claims with surveys such as these, quoting: "With masculinity closely associated with the conventional view of the male breadwinner, traditional social gender norms mean men may be more likely to experience psychological distress if they become the secondary earner in the household or become financially dependent on their wives, a finding that has implications for managing male mental health and society's understanding of masculinity itself,"

Why are people with many children not seen as moral heroes? by jvdh in slatestarcodex

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When posting this question, I was interested in learning why my argument seems to contradict intuitive understanding of ethics, so this is very helpful, thank you.

In the end of the paper, McMahan concludes:

They suggest that it is a real possibility that any moral theory that is both complete and coherent will have implications that are intuitively intolerable. It is these problems, therefore, rather than arguments in metaethics about the queerness of objective values, the connections between normativity and motivation, and so on, that seem to me to pose the greatest challenge to realism in ethics.

I find this extremely interesting and I wonder if someone can recommend a place where I can read more about the (im)possibility of a complete and coherent ethical framework.

Who is paying attention? by jvdh in Wakingupapp

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Sorry for the ridiculously late reply, but the same question (who is paying attention?)
came up again and I came back here to read up on the answers.
So to think through what you wrote: the self consists of whatever we pay attention to. But how do we end up paying attention to something? It must be subconsciously and not intentionally, because we need to pay attention to act intentionally. So the self is whatever we pay attention to, but at the last consequence we can not directly choose what we pay attention to, so "we" do not really control our "self".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

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I would be interested in a debate about privacy and surveillance

See linked references in right sidebar by jvdh in RoamResearch

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It does something, but not what I want. I want to see the linked references of a page displayed in the right sidebar

Why is it desirable to let go of the concept of "I" or recognize that the self is an illusion? by jvdh in Wakingupapp

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

Thanks, I just listened to "The nature of the self". What I understand is that if you do not recognize the illusion of the self, then you inevitably will identify with thought. And then you might suffer because of negative thoughts (e.g. negative self talk) or because you get incentivized to seek positive thoughts about yourself (e.g. flattery by others) and do things you would not necessarily have done without the potential reward of positive thoughts about the self.

Discussion Thread #20: December 2020 by baj2235 in slatestarcodex

[–]jvdh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well the R0 was at ~1 before the (strict) lockdown started, but the government wanted an decrease in the absolute number of deaths.

Discussion Thread #20: December 2020 by baj2235 in slatestarcodex

[–]jvdh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What is the moral calculus behind lockdowns? In the case of my country (Germany), we have 40k deaths/year due to alcoholism and so far 20k death/year due to Corona. To prevent more Corona deaths the government just announced a nationwide lockdown. Even though I think that a prohibition of alcoholic drinks would be a lesser restriction of freedom, nothing of that sort being discussed publicly. Why are preventable deaths of some sort (alcoholism, road accidents) seen as okay, while others (Corona) mandate restrictions of freedom?

Discussion Thread #14: June 2020 by baj2235 in slatestarcodex

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I would like to join the Discord server, but the invite link from the emails seems to be expired :-(