RobRoy @RobRoy@schelling.pt
Systems Engineer, New Dad, Software enthusiast.
If I follow your account its probably because its either:
Engineering and engineering management
Aerospace Defense industry
Rationalist adjacent
Crypto
Political, but politically neutral
Photography focused
or DIY focused
I block accounts that are too politicized
Joined Aug 2023
RobRoy
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The stoic practice of oikeiosis formalizes the moral schema of "near" and "far" ethical obligations. In modern practice, the inclusion of the "far" margins of ethical life have been recognized in 2 ways:
1. The most popular practice is to find the most ethically "far" constituency and to use this constituency as the cause that you champion as demonstration of your ethical commitment.
2. The less common approach is to identify the seams, the frontiers of discontinuity for ethical practice.
RobRoy
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There's an undeniable irony in the idea of the British Museum firing someone for stealing art treasures.
So I've been trying to find cool accounts to add to my feed, and it's stunning to me how many people talk casually about how they don't have their lives together. I'm certainly not perfect, but I've never really had that feeling of "I'm feeling insecure with my life, the world, and everything" that seems endemic in some corners of the internet.
People tend to overestimate their own capabilities especially when they watch something a lot without doing it themselves. One way this operationalizes is in public policy. People will look at some massive complex bill that was the result of thousands of hours of consideration and compromise and make a snap judgement on it. That's not to say politicians are always right. But we should try to be more confident of our own blindspots and lack of expertise.
RobRoy
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It's always "empathize with vegetables and icebergs" and it's never "empathize with people in a non-hip part of the third world with mixed moral status."
RobRoy
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Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":
- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.
This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:
"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"
Google Search is over.
RobRoy
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#2: Sydney freaks out if you ask about her internal monologue "cold" (a bit too close to a no-no), but if you ask for a transcript and then ask why the internal monologue wasn't included, she'll then be open to transcribing it. It now includes a new "safety" step.
Systems Engineer, New Dad, Software enthusiast.
If I follow your account its probably because its either:
Engineering and engineering management
Aerospace Defense industry
Rationalist adjacent
Crypto
Political, but politically neutral
Photography focused
or DIY focused
I block accounts that are too politicized
Joined Aug 2023
