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Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲

Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲

@runequantum

Chaotic neutral with neutral good tendencies. Multi-class Ranger/Rogue/Technomancer e/acc but ideally d/acc. Industrialist. Free statist Libertarian

شامل ہوئے Kasım 2016
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Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲
Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲@runequantum·
-> Anarchy is the natural state of things. -> Under anarchy, people have natural rights they are free to exercise. -> Anarchy is vulnerable to "overthrow" by collective (government) use of force (power). The government that utilizes power most effectively will displace the anarchy, regardless of how righteous the ideology of the other governments are. (Righteousness is not a necessary condition of power). This is binary (but situation dependent) - a government either does or does not have enough power to enforce the rules. -> The displacement of the anarchy is inevitable because there exists collectives / governments with ideologies that support the use of force to displace anarchy. -> Therefore, for the government with the most righteous ideology to displace the anarchy, it also needs to be the most powerful government. -> Corollary: if you believe libertarianism (the preservation of natural rights) is the most righteous ideology, then it is also OK to believe that a libertarian government can possess the most power and use that power to displace external anarchy and protect against external threats, with the goal of preserving internal anarchy (natural rights) for the citizens of that government. The disputes within libertarianism are usually not about the purpose of government, it is about how government can effectively achieve the above. Libertarians can truly range between pure anarchist and neocon. I believe that the libertarian party can attract more people if it focused official messaging on the importance of preserving natural rights and the benefits of that, while leaving the "how" for internal debate. @beinlibertarian @LPNational
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Roskosen - 楼素股腺
Roskosen - 楼素股腺@roskosenknows·
Doing it again because I'm persistent and an asshole: Global private vote: Red, Blue, or Yellow Smiley button. 50% Blue: Everyone lives/ <50% Blue: Blue voters die Red voters always live. 25% Yellow Smiley Face: Blue voters die regardless of the final blue presser %.
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iyor stravinsky
iyor stravinsky@flaminhottweets·
The red-blue button experiment is occurring. The aliens running it single you out and inform you that blue is going to fail 49-51. However, they are offering you a chance to push a green button and make it so all who pressed blue live and all who pressed red die. Do you push it?
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Mukesh Prasad
Mukesh Prasad@MPrasad65824·
@simoj_ Children tend to be natural. That's the natural response. IMO The blue button types are the ones who have never faced real risk, never really sacrificed anything for others, and therefore have a great need to virtue signal in an imaginary scenario with no actual risk or cost.
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simoj
simoj@simoj_·
Wow, my 10yo Smashed the red button with zero hesitation. “Everyone will just hit red, why would I take a chance of dying?” Not what I expected
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
@ImriJonas That's a totally different question, man. This is asinine - if a clue into how "blues" think. Of course I would vote blue, if MY TEN BEST FRIENDS only had to get over 50%. Do you think this is how real life - a vote race between the USA and Asia - WORKS?!!
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
In the classic ethics-textbook scenario, where everyone in the world has to press either a red button or a blue button and: (1) If 50+% of people pick blue, everybody lives, but... (2) If 50+% of people pick red, only red-pushers live.... Do you pick blue or red?
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Act.Forward🇺🇸Christian. Wife. Mom. Pediatrician.
I would assume that I get to vote for my children until they are 18, and no longer children. I know what's in their best interest more than anyone else and I am definitely pressing red. There's no way I'm putting the lives of my children in hands of "humanity" and just hoping for the best. I am also advising every parent I care for to also press red so that they KNOW their children safe.
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Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲
@Skolander2 @GeneKnights @cremieuxrecueil It depends on the wording. Of course there is no harm in going with red. Except it is more useful for this variant: Same problem, but the threshold for blue winning is 70% but with 1 caveat. If 100% presses red, everybody dies.
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Skolander
Skolander@Skolander2·
@runequantum @GeneKnights @cremieuxrecueil okay, the probability split that the majority will be blue is 90%, majority red 10%. You going with blue? I sure ain't. Why would I take a 10% death gamble. Even in the 90% where of cases where I go red, and majority goes blue, everyone still lives. There's no downsides for red.
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
If this was how the buttons looked, what portion of humanity would press blue? It'd probably be a large enough number due to mistakes, the young, altruists, etc., such that it remains wise to press blue.
Crémieux tweet media
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Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲
@BarackObama Hate to be that asshole but I think the entire point of the first amendment is to incite violence against a tyrannical government. Just saying...
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama@BarackObama·
Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.
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Gene Knights
Gene Knights@GeneKnights·
Just get rid of the red button. It's unnecessary. You can just ignore the blue button or press it. But yes the fact that it applies to everyone including people with very little agency like little kids changes a lot. If it only applied to people of your level of agency, it would affect decisions.
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Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲
That's nowhere near how communism works in practice. Usually it's a bunch of young impressionable youths being made to believe they are changing the world for the better but in reality they kill so many people because so many people are obviously opposed to fucking things up. In this scenario, it's like seeing a building start to catch fire, and you dont know if there is anybody in there. Your kids could even be in there, and you have to make a call to jump into the burning building to rescue anybody who is in there or stay out. Nobody is forcing anybody into the burning building. Nobody would reasonably blame anybody for staying out, and a large number of people can understand if you jumped into the building if your child was in there. Also, the most official and responsible guidance the authorities would give in this scenario would be to stay out, even if your kids were inside
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FancyHitchPin
FancyHitchPin@fancy_pin·
@runequantum @hyperliberalism Everyone can save themselves as individuals, or blues will die as a collective that fundamentally misunderstands human nature. Blue is communism.
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Antifederalist Caesar
Antifederalist Caesar@hyperliberalism·
This is a poll asking "should we do a communism?" and blue is what you push when you answer "yes." That's why so many blue pushers brand the red pushers as "evil" (and suggest they should, actually, be killed). Communism: not even once.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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Daniel Fredriksen 🇺🇲
Regarding the red and blue button question, game theory can still model the best possible outcome given the questions, your current models just suck. For example im sure there is a good algorithm for modeling both the blender question and the button question such that you can predict which color will win with what percentage
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claws (5'8", 102 IQ)
@uubzu I'm a big fan of Luigi, from the Mario Brothers video game franchise. And I'm also a fan of Chuck Mangione, the famous easy listening fusion musician. I should have known to combine the two years ago.
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Snakeystew
Snakeystew@Snakeystew1·
@runequantum @S_W_Somerville @grok 1. Whoopie doo. It's inconsequential to my point. 2. If no human believed such creature existed, it could be "great" all it liked, it wouldn't be worth anything. Who would it be great to? Itself? 3. Gods don't exist. Grow up.
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Tao☠️
Tao☠️@theerealtao·
If God has no needs, why would creation occur at all?
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