carbon fuels don't *necessarily* require death, either (i mean, except plants, millions of years ago, but that's not an obvious moral consideration) but biological scarcity, with quadrillions of ems vying for life, isn't necessarily solved
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Replying to @averykimball
True. And I suppose there is a hint of wishful thinking there. But I am in hell, and refuse to abandon hope.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
dude, how much of your hell is a call to self-overcoming, rather than a call to overcoming some malignant external reality it's easy to be pessimistic when your locus-of-control is wholly externalized, and your will is always thwarted!
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Replying to @averykimball
I can't not be transsexual, nor can I even modify my body sufficiently. If technologies emerged that made this possible I wouldn't be able to afford them. And I would still be trapped in a largely hostile society.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
here's a perspective: even three decades ago *we couldn't even consider that this might be a problem we should solve* we *create* these problems i'm not saying they aren't real, but if we solved *this*, another, just as dire would rise up, that we wouldn't even understand today
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
and this is *good*! the world isn't bad without us, it's only our hope and created meaning that allows us to judge it bad! the malignancy of the world is wholly dependent on our flourishing and greater power to expect better! the world be malignant is what we *want*
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Replying to @averykimball
This is just wrong. You couldn't sustain a sense of meaning under the conditions I exist under. No one could.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
and yet you're driven to solve problems with the solution of mind uploadingpic.twitter.com/kDcZMRWpmX
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Replying to @Alephwyr
problems are soluble, but solutions aren't inevitable and tragedy will always be with us, because we are always creating new meaning that might not come to fruition and so you *are* creating meaning, your will is simply being stolen by your idea of "malignant reality"
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This is just made up nonsense. You might as well be quoting Sartre or Heidegger
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Replying to @Alephwyr
i start out by quoting popper, and extrapolate that into the realities of fallible people not succeeding in solving their problems not really sartrean or heideggerian like, i'm not talking about responsibility under radical freedom like sartre or some emperical-phenom like heid
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