Primarily interested in the common ground of human existence. The dirt and what stems from it.
So, a couple general thoughts.
-In the 80s/90s we were obsessing over potential atom-splitting devastation and the resulting nuclear winter. Before that there were plagues wiping out huge swaths of humanity.
-Once a technology genie is out of the bottle you can't stop it. Human nature. -In spite of the 'miracles' of science there's A LOT humanity does not know. "There are know unknowns and unknown unknowns" D.R.
-In a few billion years our sun will extinguish and all remaining life on space rock Earth will perish. All material concerns are temporary. Sorry.
-Four thousand years of good advice suggests that the most interesting & meaningful stage of life starts when we begin to Know Thyself. Now in mid-life I'm starting to suspect there is some truth to this. Happy holidays everyone!
I like the LW forum, I just wasn't sure what I was looking for was currently possible.
"ordering off-menu"
My point was asking a developer to make an unplanned addition to and existing system of code usually results in headaches all around.
"Conceivably an admin could embed an iframe"
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I've never had much luck "ordering off-menu". Thanks for the response all the same.
Thanks for the feedback Raemon. I'll add some verbiage to the components and relationships. Maybe there's a way to add hover-over pop-ups.
Downvotes, hmmm, at least a couple people read it. I wonder what they disagreed with?
6. Pre-clean as necessary to keep dishes from stinking after three days when the dishwasher will be full and can be unloaded into the sink and washed manually because said dishwasher has been broken for three weeks!
[Bonus: discovered that manually washing dishes had 'zen' value.]
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Supplemental:
"As an interesting thought experiment, invent my brutally honest slogans to make the point that most products have both an ostensible, ‘official’ function and an ulterior function. The main value of a dishwasher, I would argue, is not that it washes dirty dishes, but that it provides you with an out-of-sight place to put them."
--Rory Sutherland, Alchemy, 2021
During further research into topic of morality I discovered the following.
Per excerpt below which meshes with my current understanding, knowledge of "morality" is based on unchanging Natural Law("Ground") (essentially the Golden Rule) is restricted by who we are. Given that who we are fluctuates this adds even more variation into defining it. I'm not suggesting basic morality is relative to a person or culture but how we perceive it is. Applying basic morality to a current culture is another matter but first things first.
"In other words, the Ground can be denoted as being there, but not defined as having qualities. This means that discursive knowledge about the Ground is not merely, like all inferential knowledge, a thing at one remove, or even at several removes, from the reality of immediate acquaintance; it is and, because of the very nature of our language and our standard patterns of thought, it must be, paradoxical knowledge. Direct knowledge of the Ground cannot be had except by union, and union can be achieved only by the annihilation of the self-regarding ego, which is the barrier separating the “thou” from the “That.”"
--Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945
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Here's a perspective on current issues - social need driven answers to moral questions. Still, first things first I say.
"Moral questions may not have objective answers but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. To bring reason to bear upon social relations, to define a rational answer to a moral question, requires social engagement and collective action. It is the breakdown over the past century of such engagement and such action that has proved so devastating for moral thinking."
--Kenan Malik, The Quest for a Moral Compass, 2014
"HE SAYS HI"
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LOL ... <sigh>
"Once a technology genie is out of the bottle you can't stop it"
Bloomberg, Feb 1st, 2023: ChatGPT Unleashes Stock Trader Stampede for Everything AI
The stock-market euphoria around AI is reminding traders of past bubbles like 2017’s blockchain frenzy.
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It's be fine. Try to figure out the right( or less wrong) thing to do and then make an effort to do it.
As always.