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tomoyo

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Tragic princess investigating the fiber arts (and occasional polysynths, fiction, etc)

Wants to be your friend, make you things, and edit your fanfiction.

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@tomoyo@tech.lgbt avatar tomoyo , to random

this is an actual delivery by the United States Postal Service today

there's $122 of medication in there

postman realized his mistake when it did not fall onto the sidwalk behind the entry-gate but he still had the gall to mark it as "delivered"

it's a box. and it's on the roof.
ALT
@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt avatar AzulCrescent , to random
tomoyo ,
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@AzulCrescent happ birf!!

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

[2018]

DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead

ME: Hey that rules

DUDES: It's called effective altruism

[2025]

OTHER DUDES: So those EA dudes want to pave all farmland on earth for the benefit of hypothetical robots 10,000,000,000,000 years in the future

ME: Wha

[DOES THIS STORY HAVE A MORAL? I CAN'T TELL.]

tomoyo ,
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@ireneista @emaytch @mcc slight disagree: it's a multiply by infinity error (because the future is infinite)

more specifically: it's not the first place they went wrong, but the place that they really removed all guardrails that would mitigate any wrongness, was in giving value in the future a 0% discount rate.

while people in the future are not any less morally legitimate than people are today, not only is opportunity cost is real, but the future is uncertain (and your plans for the future even more so! you're not building the far future, you'll be dead)

once you've made that error, basically any imaginary future is justified by throwing excessively big numbers at it, and you're just Immanentizing The Eschaton again (usually a big sign you've gone wrong).

sure, we could argue for years about Repugnant Conclusions and whether various measures of utility in utilitarianism make any sense, but giving even the most modest discount rate to The Abstract Far Future would render 99.9% of these questions moot

@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt avatar AzulCrescent , to random
tomoyo ,
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@AzulCrescent "... I paid all the dues I want to pay / And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce / that all my wealth won't buy me health / and so I smoke a pint of 'tea' a day" — paul simon

@Aurani@tech.lgbt avatar Aurani , to random

Cold Call: “Hello, we can save you up to 40% on your mobile bill. Do you currently have a mobile plan?”

… whut?

tomoyo ,
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@Aurani "no, sorry, I don't have a telephone at all"

@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt avatar AzulCrescent , to random

Drink??

Its not even because of health reasons, I just prefer water because its the most efficient at making me less thirsty lol

tomoyo ,
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@AzulCrescent it appears your fren is short and you are talllll