I own nothing and I’ve never been more unhappy.

And, if so, is this GOAT for the worst person you know making a good point?

Some of this is I just really think my generation had an overreaction to my parents’ but at an absurdly high monetary cost. So maybe time to just tamp that down.

Where in the world is Daniela Detroit? Detroit is the opposite of San Diego, right?

What part of Arrakis is that?

For me, it’s that the cold and dark is briskly invigorating in a way the day never is. Which I guess makes me ready for a Bronze Age afterlife.

I think that’s right. It certainly accords with the positions I’ve found to win people over: do you really want people screaming at cops at the bathroom? are you really comfortable inserting yourself into this medical decision? Etc.

People don’t know what to think, this don’t want to.

I think the most fraught thing about trans rights is the political dynamic.

Actively protecting trans people is a loser. But *reactively* protecting trans people is a big winner!

I think it reflects society being unresolved. The winning reaction is against creative ways to punch trans people.

Maybe this is an argument for long distance charges.

I think the reason is that, in the past, it was much more difficult to create a lot of harassment, much less fully automated luxury space harassment.

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It might not even be positive in utility!

It’s possible that there is no ethical conclusion available from the original experiment: the result can’t guide action because it really can’t expand beyond “one headache, one set of diffuse gains”, which is by nature an action taken but once.

I think we can see the results: we don’t like it.

And maybe that calls the conclusion into question. We’re only happy with this result if we expect to not get the headache. But if we build society around passing out big headaches but even more tiny dopamine hits, we hate the result.

Which isn’t part of the thought experiment! It’s supposed to be one headache and one small, diffuse gain! I don’t think anyone ever addressed “what if we handed out lots of headaches in exchange for lots of small, diffuse gains”.

It’s like we took the “what if we gave one person a bad headache to make everyone a little happier” and did it over and over.

Get a traffic ticket? You bear the cost of deterrence. Product failure? Prepare to bear the cost of making everything slightly cheaper waiting on a support line. Etc.