The number of comments on this post dodging the question is frustrating.
From a Utilitarian standpoint, pulling the lever is good. It doesn't decrease the collective good but at least one person (you) benefits. I'm not too firm on Kantian ethics, but I can't see how either action would consider the victims as a means or a goal in this constructed scenario. Accordingly, by Kantian ethics, it should be ethically neutral for you to pull the lever, though someone certainly is to blame for setting up this situation. However, I could also see a Kantian argument that one should never benefit from human suffering, even if one is not the cause of that suffering (based on the maxime of the action). Someone with a better understanding of Kant will have to resolve that one.
Remember the wheat shortage in Northern Africa that almost turned into a famine in 2022... yeah. Maybe we should blame the side that started the war more than the side that is defending against an aggressor, even if the latter uses some shady tactics, like targeting non-military targets. It's not like the other side were above that.
This is an interesting post because it mixes valid arguments with bogus just well enough to give the tankies (yeah, I'm talking to you) a defensible fall-back position. The Ukrainian military has a Neo-Nazi problem: Undeniable. Is that also a cornerstone of Russian anti-Ukrainian propaganda? Youbetcha. In comes the dog-whistle. Ukraine losing the war right now: Yup, unfortunate reality, though they seem to be fighting with every nail and tooth. "Losing the war", yes, but not "Lost the war already". And Russia is paying with heavy losses for that. And let's not forget that this is only the case because Ukrainian allies (Hey, that meme shows a corner of the EU flag, what a coincidink) don't get their shit together and put boots on the ground themselves; otherwise the power balance would look quite differently. Everyone, including the Russian military, expected the war to be over in a week (by official statements, anyway). Yet here we are, even though Ukraine is fighting one of the largest conventional armies in the world. Oh, and lastly: Enlighten me, how is Ukraine, not Russia, the Imperialist in this war?!
I enjoy Racoon on Android. Multi-account support if that matters to you. Also, the swiping right / double-right / left for like / save / dislike is nice. Edit: Oh, and of course it's available outside of the Play Store, which was also a selling point for me.
I wonder if a strict divide into planner and worker agents really is the best design for swarms. In the spirit of stigmergy, swarm intelligence emerges from every agent performing both of these roles according to their current context. I also wonder how much more performance could be gained by updating model weights as the swarm churns, either of every agent on their own or of every agent class. This would be the truer representation of learned behavior than the field journal described in this article, and it would also implement lessons from context drift and 'LLM sleep' from earlier this year. Impressive publication, nonetheless.
Appreciated :D it may also be because they're German and in Germany 'we teip wiss an akzent'. The official page calls it a running order (the thing that they don't provide in a printer-optimized form yet) and I didn't care to check for synonyms.
Fully agree. That said, the Antarctic research stations do have their own subculture and their own accent, so that much will likely occur on a lunar base, too.
The number of comments on this post dodging the question is frustrating. From a Utilitarian standpoint, pulling the lever is good. It doesn't decrease the collective good but at least one person (you) benefits. I'm not too firm on Kantian ethics, but I can't see how either action would consider the victims as a means or a goal in this constructed scenario. Accordingly, by Kantian ethics, it should be ethically neutral for you to pull the lever, though someone certainly is to blame for setting up this situation. However, I could also see a Kantian argument that one should never benefit from human suffering, even if one is not the cause of that suffering (based on the maxime of the action). Someone with a better understanding of Kant will have to resolve that one.
In my personal experience, both for dishwashers and laundry, powder does a better job.
Ukraine is also a significant wheat exporter and invading it in a war of aggression didn't really help with that tbh:
Remember the wheat shortage in Northern Africa that almost turned into a famine in 2022... yeah. Maybe we should blame the side that started the war more than the side that is defending against an aggressor, even if the latter uses some shady tactics, like targeting non-military targets. It's not like the other side were above that.
Not The Onion?
https://www.instagram.com/mygumsarebleeding/
Just switch out a few words.
Oooooh, cool meme template!
I came here smiling, yet you made me chuckle.
This is an interesting post because it mixes valid arguments with bogus just well enough to give the tankies (yeah, I'm talking to you) a defensible fall-back position. The Ukrainian military has a Neo-Nazi problem: Undeniable. Is that also a cornerstone of Russian anti-Ukrainian propaganda? Youbetcha. In comes the dog-whistle. Ukraine losing the war right now: Yup, unfortunate reality, though they seem to be fighting with every nail and tooth. "Losing the war", yes, but not "Lost the war already". And Russia is paying with heavy losses for that. And let's not forget that this is only the case because Ukrainian allies (Hey, that meme shows a corner of the EU flag, what a coincidink) don't get their shit together and put boots on the ground themselves; otherwise the power balance would look quite differently. Everyone, including the Russian military, expected the war to be over in a week (by official statements, anyway). Yet here we are, even though Ukraine is fighting one of the largest conventional armies in the world. Oh, and lastly: Enlighten me, how is Ukraine, not Russia, the Imperialist in this war?!
I will steal that last half sentence of you, thank you very much.
I enjoy Racoon on Android. Multi-account support if that matters to you. Also, the swiping right / double-right / left for like / save / dislike is nice. Edit: Oh, and of course it's available outside of the Play Store, which was also a selling point for me.
Oh yeah, absolutely I would!
That just sounds like the original 'Die Hard' with Aliens. he's in the vents!
Thanks, I really needed to hear that today. Brightens my mood. stupid reality being all fucked up stupid shit why not happy?
I wonder if a strict divide into planner and worker agents really is the best design for swarms. In the spirit of stigmergy, swarm intelligence emerges from every agent performing both of these roles according to their current context. I also wonder how much more performance could be gained by updating model weights as the swarm churns, either of every agent on their own or of every agent class. This would be the truer representation of learned behavior than the field journal described in this article, and it would also implement lessons from context drift and 'LLM sleep' from earlier this year. Impressive publication, nonetheless.
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Appreciated :D it may also be because they're German and in Germany 'we teip wiss an akzent'. The official page calls it a running order (the thing that they don't provide in a printer-optimized form yet) and I didn't care to check for synonyms.
Thanks, much appreciated!
It really is :D ! Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_English
Fully agree. That said, the Antarctic research stations do have their own subculture and their own accent, so that much will likely occur on a lunar base, too.