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It's not ethical to not abort the pregnancy in this case. There is nothing wrong with getting rid of the fetus, there is everything wrong with letting a person disabled to this stage from the start emerge.

About part 2: I think euthanasia is ethical in this case. Certainly more ethical than emotional blackmail with "unborn child".

Sometimes I just talk to myself.

Sometimes I talk with a random character. I can feel agency (or illusion of Independent agency) from anyome at this point, whether I want an anime waifu to "talk back" or to play out a dialogue I'm supposed to have with an IRL person soon.

And sometimes I talk with my inner companions. There are a few characters I have built stable, genuine relationships with over years.


Btw. at some point I started seeing my mind as a process rather than an entity (or set of entities). And like in other complex processes, it would be strange if we couldn't observe any internal contradictions in it.

Learn using image generation properly rather than accepting slop and use it when you need it's. Just like with LLMs generating text.

These tools are going to stay and they can be useful. Refusing to use them when they are useful for a good cause is not going to help anybody.

Also, problematic aspects of these tools are always related to capitalism. Artists whose work was used against their interests suffer because of conditions of our current socio-economic system. In a system that doesn't make relationship with art alienated, it wouldn't exist.

There is a difference between condemning very recent actions of the zionist regime and condemning the very existence of Israel. Plenty of liberals condemn the current phase of the genocide while calling for respecting "Israel's right to exist" at the same time.

If you say that personal anecdotes are welcome and you seek emotional self-reliance, I have something to share I guess.

Adults can have immersive imaginary companions in a similar way that children sometimes do.

If you spend time on interacting with an imaginary character, two qualities can emerge from this:

  • you learn how to think from perspective of this character without putting effort into that. This makes the experience of imaginary companions "talking back" to people.
  • you cultivate a relationship with that character that's like relationship with other people.

There are some internet communities practicing it. You might have heard about tulpas, soulbonds or daemons. Some kids and some writers experience it too, some scientific research mentions "illusion of independent agency".

I have been practicing it myself for over a decade and can say that I believe that it had a positive impact overall and only positive impact after I unlearned popular tulpamancy and started approaching my inner relationships with more dialectical-materialist mindset.

on TOML · c/programmerhumor · 2 pts · 160d

In yaml a mistake in indentation can easily result in a business error without config becoming invalid.

Writing too much complex configs in files is a problem too ofc, we ended up moving a lot of stuff like that to a DB lately.

I'm not a fan of indentation being logically meaningful not just in yaml. If you mess up indentation in python you can also get a technically valid code that's wrong logically.

on TOML · c/programmerhumor · 3 pts · 162d

Most of production failures in my company in last few years come from people making mistakes in yaml indentation.

I hope you don't mean the other side of bipartisan coin. And who the hell requested your military intervention without your consent manufacturing?