I meant that our goals aren’t aligned with the evolutionary “goal” of maximizing the number of offspring anymore. We are still deeply driven by evolved instincts, but we should recognize them as needs that our biology requires to be satisfied in order to achieve happiness, rather than goals in themselves. Of course we are still part of the biosphere and subject to evolution, but that evolution isn’t significant on our timescale or meaningful (in the sense that by our criteria of good people, we won’t evolve to be better). If we want to improve as a species, we should focus on a different, memetic, kind of evolution, passing knowledge and ideas instead of genetic material.

Fitness can be seen as a phenotype trait, i.e. the kind of phenotype that will produce the most offspring. Of course that is dependent on the environment, but it is worth noting that the kind of adaptation you mentioned can also happen epigenetically or by other means. Basically organisms can have some adpatability built into their genotype.

People don’t understand that fitness is related purely to the number of viable offspring, which isn’t a useful indicator of a person’s virtue. Anyways Social Darwinism is idiotic and a wonderful example of the appeal to nature fallacy. We’ve surpassed evolution for fuck’s sake, if we want to progress as a society we need to educate people.

In evolutionary biology, fitness is defined as reproductive success, aka the number of viable, reproducing offspring

The idea itself isn’t wrong, the fittest individuals (those who have the most offspring) are always those whose genetic material will be best represented in the next generations. Kin Selection Theory just includes the fact that even selfish and thus fitter individuals which are helped by altruistic ones usually carry some altruistic genes which they propagate.

Death to fascism, freedom to the people!

Omg that thing looks gorgeous, it’s a shame the company is owned by bezos

It’s under your profile > personalization > memory, but I think it’s off by default

I guess I’m not very original, but Meshuggah just beats everything else for me lately, Future Breed Machine or pretty much the entirety of ObZen (though Bleed is overrated and possibly the worst song on the album apart from Pravus), I think it’s something about how the vocals interact with the riffing, though I’m not sure this is exactly the kind of heaviness you mean…

Otherwise maybe check out Flood by Boris, that has some massive riffs (Flood III is where the shit goes down if you don’t feel like listening to the whole thing)

Huh, that’s interesting, reading the wikipedia page, it didn’t even seem that terrible, I don’t really understand how “effective altruism” and “hyper-utilitarianism” can lead you to that

Yeah, I did not know that existed…

I think rationalism is more about even being able to acquire true knowledge rationally and that rationality should be our main source of knowledge (in contrast to spiritual revelation for example, or empiricism for that fact, but that doesn’t exactly hold up well). In other words it’s an epistemological position about being right, not an outright proclamation that rationalism itself is right.

Just wondering, why wouldn’t you want to run Android? AOSP is fully open source, google free, and runs on linux anyways, these other OSs are just bound to be buggier…

There are legitimate uses for a knife besides using it as a weapon, for example slicing bread for a sandwich, opening packaging, slicing fruit etc., stuff that I could see myself doing at a beach…

My point was that even if you ban knives, that won’t prevent people from carrying them, and this is confirmed by the fact that knife crime has been rising in the UK since the regulations have been put in place.

Tbf I thought it was a complete ban on knives in public, but apparently small pocket knives under 7cm are allowed, and you probably don’t have any legitimate reason to carry anything larger than that, so I don’t think the law is harmful, but it fails to address the core of the problem. And yeah, carrying a steak knife “for protection” is pretty strange…

How I see it, stabbing someone is far more illegal than carrying a knife, so if someone is open to stabbing a person, this law won’t stop them from concealed carrying. Now what is more dangerous, someone having a knife and you can see it, or someone having a knife and you can’t see it?

There are also usually separate laws in place that prohibit brandishing a weapon, so I think apprehending potential attackers isn’t a huge problem.

I guess it might reduce the amount of knives involved in random confrontations as you mentioned.

Looking up the stats, the laws weren’t effective in decreasing knife crime, in fact it rose by over 50% in England and Wales between 2014 and 2019.

But then again, apparently carrying small pocket knives under 7cm is allowed, and you probably don’t have any legitimate reason for carrying anything larger than that.

Nowadays every country is involved in capitalism, whether they like it or not. Also, non-capitalism doesn’t imply authoritarianism, take for example democratic socialism.

To be fair, I don’t really understand what they’re trying to achieve with these laws. A knife is just a tool, the issue isn’t carrying one, but intending to use it to hurt someone, and if you intend to hurt someone, you will find some way to hide it anyways. If people are going around stabbing each other in the streets, the problem is much deeper than “they shouldn’t be carrying knives in the public”, perhaps your education system failed to teach them morality.

Classic capitalist brutality, whoever dares to speak out is crushed.

Step 1: start with noise

Step 2: make it look a little more like a crab

Step 3: repeat step 2

How the hell do you, of all people, add the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic? The fact they acknowledged and defended this makes it seem like some kind of PR stunt, though a very strange one at that. Maybe this is like some soft introduction of their new anti-european rhetoric…