AngularAloe

joined 1 year ago
[–] AngularAloe 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. It's based/relies on utilitarianism for its moral framework, and I'm just decidedly not a utilitarian. I consider relationships, rights, and motives to matter when judging something.

  2. The whole "earn to give" thing is just a disastrous concept, most publicly in giving cover to things like FTX.

  3. It lacks any theory of power or overall social or economic change. Singer on this issue:

[–] AngularAloe 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I don't have the answers here, but it's quite an assumption to say that EA is most efficient and following another method would be "sacrificing" potential. EA has some major glaring flaws.

[–] AngularAloe 4 points 1 year ago

While I'm with you partly (I don't think rights should be removeable to majority rule), I'm not sure how much effective democracy we actually have, as I don't see much of a straight line between the power of individuals to vote and the ability to gain policies that people actually want.

[–] AngularAloe 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My trust in him dropped after being exposed to his activity on twitter. It seemed like he had a habit of trying to apply his knowledge to things he didn't understand or where he was missing the point. I'm no longer on twitter and can't remember specific examples, so it may have been more that that format did not work for him.

[–] AngularAloe 7 points 1 year ago

I found the procedurally-produced planets in No Man's Sky to be stunningly beautiful. Then I would walk around on them and the similar-but-not-quite look of every part of the landscape would slowly drive me INSANE.

[–] AngularAloe 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Combo attacks - I'm not coordinated to hit the buttons in order fast enough. I tried Black Desert when it was free and this was the dealbreaker for me, though it wasn't the only thing that bugged me about the game.

[–] AngularAloe 7 points 1 year ago

Has therebeen any successful implementation of a DAO?

This podcast about the Spice DAO is educational/entertaining:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/26-dune-and-done-the-spice-dao-saga-w-adi-robertson/id1607025513?i=1000575070595

[–] AngularAloe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, absolutely disagree. People were being used as pawns and pushed towards the border by Belarus, where they were freezing and Poland would not let humanitarian aid or journalists reach them. Neither country's government gave a shit about the value of human life.

[–] AngularAloe 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When there were people freezing near the border, that was on Poland as well.

[–] AngularAloe 3 points 1 year ago

When the People's Party started, I was following them for a while on twitter to see what they would become. It didn't take long for it to become became obvious it was a grift. I thought they were committed to running Dore even though the number of people he would appeal to is severely limited.

[–] AngularAloe 6 points 1 year ago

When he says "when I was a child, any car that was five years old was a bucket of rust and halfway through the gate of the scrapyard" is he referring to British cars? Some of the American cars from my childhood were quite solid (and no, I'm not an American-made chauvinist, this line just struck me as odd).

[–] AngularAloe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have they ever added a mapping feature, or at least an option to mark which points on a planet you've already visited? I know the decision to not include maps was absolutely intentional, but it's the only thing that could bring me back.

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