CodexArcanum

Alas! I fear we cannot stay here longer,’ said Aragorn. He looked towards the mountains and held up his sword. ‘Farewell, Gandalf!’ he cried. ‘Did I not say to you: if you pass the doors of Moria, beware? Alas that I spoke true! What hope have we without you?’

He turned to the Company. ‘We must do without hope,’ he said. ‘At least we may yet be avenged. Let us gird ourselves and weep no more! Come! We have a long road, and much to do.’

So if sunlight hurts vampires, but moonlight doesn’t (but moonlight is reflected sunlight) then does that mean the moon absorbs all holy light, and only reflects unholy light? Sunlight, we must assume, is composed of a random mix of all wavelengths and divinities of light. Therefore, can a vampire’s reflection be seen if the vampire is illuminated by moonlight? Only if using a non-silver mirror? What about office fluorescent light, the most evil light of all?

I’ll just put this with all the other fire.

would the world be a better or worse place if everyone did what I’m about to do?

This is basically another formulation of Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative, sometimes phrased:

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

Which is itself basically another version of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I’ve heard advocates for the Platinum Rule as well: Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.

My point is that even the great thinkers of history, in conversation with each other over the millennia, have not gotten over the hump of morality being fundamentally subjective yet some lust for justice keeps us arguing in favor of some version of objective, universal morals.

One of the more helpful tools I’ve found is John Rawl’s veil of ignorance, also called the original position argument. Basically, if you were redesigning society around your new rules, but had no idea which position you would hold in the new society (it’s randomly assigned or impossible to predict, in the thought experiment), would you consider your rules successful and your society valid?

This tool allows for an objective evaluation of many subjective points of view, through statistical means.

All of these tools fail in a particular way though, which is that they individualize the search for ideal behavior. They ask: What morals would be best in a perfectly designed society, of which I will be the architect. Perhaps no individual is capable of devising a universal system of behavior?

Locked into their subjective experience of the world, how could any individual operating within such a system gain the conceptual distance necessary to redesign the whole? Rather, we are all shaped and attempt to shape society, aided and resisted by our resources and allies, in a chaotic and turbulent system that we are incapable of existing outside of. Even with a plan for a universal morality, how could you possibly implement it without contradiction?

You: has a bad opinion

Nobody:

THANK YOU! Goddamn, nothing makes me feel more like an old man screaming at clouds than this stupid “Nobody:” meme.

Woke up a 1, then remembered i live in a genocidal regime collapsing at the end of history, and I still have to show up to work for several hours of meetings. So I’m at about a 7 now, as my day truly starts.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Obviously the pope’s protective glass box is permanent, and must be slotted into the truck. The moment they decide you’re pope, into the safety box you go.

(Theres a 40K\golden-throne joke in there somewhere but I’m feeling lazy today.)

Dirty, partly broken, and yet still up somehow?

Some poboy shops here sell a long burger. My gym buddy used to regularly eat the 8 patty footlong double. Must have been a pound of meat on it, never mind the cheese and other toppings.

My recollection is that Sigma male was originally a joke to belittle people that really believed in that bad-wolf-study idea of Alpha and Beta males. Shortly after taking “alpha male” seriously became a meme, listicles and memes started popping up about the secret, even more powerful Sigma variant. Since it has truly no basis in science, I figured sigma was a joke pull from either Six Sigma or maybe even the villain from Megaman X. Now I’m curious if research will find anything on the origins, I need to do some digging.

Anyway, it all gets immediately much funnier when Ligma males come onto the scene shortly after.

I’m putting my bets on Skyrim Remastered before we see Morrowind or TES6.

Or maybe a skyrim-(or fallout-)based battle royale shooter, i could see that being very likely too.

No worries! You’re probably right that it’s better not to assume, and it’s good of you to provide some different options.

If by more learning you mean learning

ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

Then yeah, it’s a pretty steep curve!

If you’re a developer then you can also search “$MyFavDevEnv use local ai ollama” to find guides on setting up. I’m using Continue extension for VS Codium (or Code) but there’s easy to use modules for Vim and Emacs and probably everything else as well.

The main problem is leveling your expectations. The full Deepseek is a 671b (that’s billions of parameters) and the model weights (the thing you download when you pull an AI) are 404GB in size. You need so much RAM available to run one of those.

They make distilled models though, which are much smaller but still useful. The 14b is 9GB and runs fine with only 16GB of ram. They obviously aren’t as impressive as the cloud hosted big versions though.

I’m an USAian and that was my first thought too! “Put some branston on that and it’d be an alright lunch.” Seriously though, at least put some mayo on there or something, my mouth is dry just looking at it.

Seems like a pretty popular song where its from too. Here’s awesome band Red Baraat covering it!

https://youtu.be/fLlgTYZsc8o

These are fine examples, but all over 20 years old now! (Also I’m still salty about Origin Systems in 1992!)

But hey, EA has never stopped sucking! We can also lament recent purchases like legendary UK studio Codemasters (2021) or Respawn (2017). Respawn is especially funny since it was made by ex-Infinity Ward founders, who got bought again! I wonder what their next future-EA-acquisition project will be?

I’m really wondering what it means myself! Is it like superstitious programming? Or “cookie cutter” perhaps, using templates and copy-paste from QA sites to duct tape it all together?

Nothing is more homosexual than being a loving, present father for the children you’ve created with a woman.