What kind of vandal attacks a library? We really need to find the people responsible.
Who profits from this attack? Who forced to remove books from IA?
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The world is all that much worse for their poor character.
I disagree, their character does not matter, business incentives matter. Nothing would change, if other personalities were in charge, since profit maximization is still there.
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gomizari commented on HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/FleetAdmiralJa
My original post was intended to clarify why I believe Libertarian ideology is distinct from and incompatible with Utilitarianism, particularly since in your response, you conflated the concept of the greater good as a core principle of Libertarian ideology. This is quite surprising given your claim to have "studied philosophy and ethics".
To address this misunderstanding, let me break down the logical fallacies I alluded to earlier:
- The "tyranny of the majority" problem: Since happiness is determined by the number of individuals, a simple majority can impose its will on the minority, potentially denying them their rights or freedoms.
- The "moral arithmetic" fallacy: This assumes that individual well-being can be measured and added up like numbers in an equation, ignoring the complexities of human experience and the difficulties of making such calculations.
- The "majority rules" fallacy: This implies that whatever the majority wants is automatically just or right, without considering the potential for mob rule, manipulation, or coercion.
- The "ignore individual rights" fallacy: By prioritizing the greater good over individual interests, Utilitarianism may lead to the trampling of human rights and dignity.
No offense, but it's worth noting that a more nuanced understanding of philosophy and ethics might be beneficial for more accurate representations of complex concepts.
I will defend utilitarianism, since I like it a lot and all your arguments against it are bad.
- The "tyranny of the majority" problem is a problem of direct democracy, not utilitarianism. Happiness in utilitarianism is determined not by a number of individuals, but by all individuals and perfect utility function must take into account both majorities and minorities and create consensus. This will only fail if majority and minority have directly opposed interests, but in this case overall good is still better this way (you don't want to deny majority people their rights too in favor for minorities).
- The "majority rules" fallacy is a problem of democracy overall. Every democracy system is vulnerable to this, not only utilitarianism. But then again, perfect utility function should take into account people's desire to not be fooled, so there's that.
- The "ignore individual rights" fallacy is the same as "tyranny of the majority". Utility function takes into account interests of all individuals and tries to create the best possible consensus.
- The "moral arithmetic" fallacy is the best one here, since it's actually close to the truth. You can't really create a perfect utility function, but you don't need to. You can create imperfect one and improve it later with feedback and democracy mechanisms. With time imperfect utility function will get closer and closer to perfect one. Profit maximizing utility function can't be calculated too, but corporations handle it just fine. But if you're not blind, you can see that profit maximizing utility function leads to a lot of real people suffering (climate change, wars, hunger, poverty and many many more) while leading to profit maximization (alignment problem).
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Will also shamelessly plug yet another AST matcher, but for decompiled code in IDA Pro https://github.com/Mizari/herast :)
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gomizari commented on The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open twitter.com/IntelCrab/sta... · Posted by u/dralley
The Russians intentionally increased the water level of the dam to cause the most damage and then intentionally blew it up.
At least two Russian soldiers have said they would blow the damn / they blew the dam and have admitted as much in camera.
Russia was celebrating this before they realised it was a war crime then they went into their typical deny and deflect everything mode.
It's probably another way around: Ukrainians intentionally increased the water level of the dam, since they control dams up the Dnieper river.
gomizari commented on The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open twitter.com/IntelCrab/sta... · Posted by u/dralley
Ukrainians confessed multiple times they attacked it with HIMARSes:
1) https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62533233
2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offe...
"Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages."