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henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2025 3:18 pm

Daniel McKay wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:42 pm Make sense?

In other words: how much, or what parts, of your freedom are you willing to risk to get a benefit, yeah?

Later today: I'm gonna review the thread. I think I'm missin' sumthin' and need to refresh my head.

No, what parts of your freedom are worth what proportion of the whole.

Age: "coma" seems most appropriate. I initially thought of your body being destroyed and only your mind trapped in such a state, but I think a "coma" is easier for people to understand. You live as long as you would have lived had none of the nightmare scenario occurred. The poin...

What a scam. i wonder who was duped out of 9.5K of their 'prize' :lol: As mentioned in the initial terms, partial solutions receive partial payouts, and in this case I think 5% was reasonable. Obviously I discussed this with the person in question and they seemed pleased with what they received for...

You spend the rest of your life (as long as you would live otherwise) in a coma, but you are still aware of everything that happens to you. You come under the care of an unscrupulous doctor who sees you as a money-making opportunity. He confiscates everything you own and then rents you out for expe...

I'm havin' a hard time wrappin' my head around this nightmare scenario thing. Can you give me a practical or concrete example or a real world scenario? So I'm still working out the best way to communicate it in a way people can understand, but something like this: You spend the rest of your life (a...

This challenge is now closed. I have a solution I am satisfied with. While the solution was developed by me, it was partially inspired by someone's suggestion and they received 5% of the money as an inspiration fee. What a scam. i wonder who was duped out of 9.5K of their 'prize' :lol: As mentioned...

A solution I am satisfied with has been found. And the solution is...? I mean it's a bit complicated, but the nutshell version is that you what what risk of a 'nightmare scenario' (that stands in as a proxy for the totality of someone's freedom) people would accept in order to avoid a variety of di...

While I am primarily happy that I solved the problem, and secondarily happy that I get 95% of my money back, I am also tertiarily happy that I no longer have any need to politely engage with ranting in half-caps on the internet.

This challenge has now closed. A solution I am satisfied with has been found. While the solution was found by me, someone did partly inspire me with what they said, so they received 5% of the money as an inspiration fee.

Age - I was not being facetious or obtuse when I pointed out that "abuse" and "anything" were too vague. "Anything" for example could refer to other living things, or things that can suffer, or to literally anything, which would be much broader. "Abuse" likewi...

It does relate to how persons should live their lives. That is not the answer to anything. That is a vague platitude. It does not help us determine the answer to difficult moral questions, it is unclear what it means, and there appears to be no reason why we should think it is correct. It is not onl...

Age - I am not obsessing over this particular case, I am giving you an example. Also, morality should give us answers to exactly this sort of question. It should guide us to make the right choices when faced with difficult decisions. How we should live our lives very much includes what we should do ...

'your intuitions' have, obviously, been leading you astray, and have been leading you so far astray that you are now offering $10,000 to another/others to help guide you back onto the Right track in Life. Even nearly ten years of trying to work things out here 'your intuition' has not helped you. S...

Why did you even begin to assume that I was struggling with any words here? I was just pointing out that some of the words you use together here are not really saying any thing at all. For example, you have said and written here, 'The objective normative truths about the world.', Is not really sayi...

Atla - I mean, that's true in the sense that there are some constraints on morality based on starting assumptions, such as it needing to be applicable to all persons. But that isn't inconsistent and I have been pretty clear about starting assumptions from the off. If, and when, you ever start with ...