u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus

Not hating, just curious. I feel like profit seeking is more accurate to what he's describing?

Like, am I crazy? How is a contractor overcharging a city for a construction process rent seeking? Who is renting what?

Again not hating. I'm probably just stupid.

That's all

It's old as fuck, probably over 7 years old

The game ends with one player being down to a zealot, one player down to 2 zerglings and a drone

Toss has way more buildings, and both players have less than 50 minerals

They realize that the zealot can't protect its structures, so they base trade, and the zealot keeps taking chip damage from the broodlings every time a building dies.

There are 2 zerg structures left, and the zealot only has the HP left to survive killing one of them, but they're right next to each other, so the zealot gets both buildings down to red, and kills them both, dying gloriously to the broodlings

BUT WAIT zerg had 26 minerals left and built an assimilator.

I need this cast. Please help.

I know posts about veganism are banned, honestly I'm in support. I don't think veganism is a political topic.

We can still talk about abolishing factory farms though right? That's political isn't it?

We can talk about reducing meat consumption right? Cause that's political and leftist.

We can talk about the politics of dairy farming and how it's kind of weird that we keep cows perpetually pregnant and prevent them from feeding their own calves with their milk. Right? Cause that's fucked up. Probably shouldn't be doing that. Dial the capitalism down a few notches, let the calves wean more naturally, stop trying to maximise profitability from each animal.

We care about animal rights still... Right?

I just keep hearing vegans complain that the subreddit has decided that "the concept of reducing animal suffering" has been banned and stuff like that, (some people who I generally like and respect the opinions of, despite their dietary choices) and I guess this post is just a sanity check to make sure that I'm right and the vegans are overreacting.

Just that.

I mean I guess the third option is you get upset and leave, but like, assume it's a genuine mistake. The restaurant isn't trying to be mean to you or nothing.

I know this isn't directly related to free will but randomness comes up a lot and it bothers me how little people seem to understand it, also, I bring it home back to free will at the end. So

EDIT: Imagine some dice that are random. Some like, dice powered by nuclear decay or some shit. Truly random dice.

If I roll a d20 I get a random number between 1&20 it's impossible to predict which number I'm going to get. I mean, I know it's not going to be a 45, there are a range of possible outcomes, but the outcome is truly random.

You can tell me the past 1000 rolls on the die, and it doesn't affect how likely any of the numbers show up. Just because it's rolled a Twelve 6 times is a row doesnt mean it's next roll is any more or less likely than 1/20 to be a 12

We all understand this. I don't think there are many of us who struggle with this.

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Now, if I roll 1000 d20s, I'm going to get a result that's between 1000 and 20,000, but there's a curve to it. It's probably going to be pretty close to 10500. That doesn't make it any less random. Still, the records of past events don't affect future events. Still, it's impossible to predict what any die is going to come up as. It's still impossible to predict the total, there's just a range of options, and the ones near 10500 are a lot more common

This doesn't make it less random. If I roll the dice and remove all the dice that come up 1's, I can predict that the dice will have a half life of ~13 dice rolls. That doesn't make it any less random

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If I replace all of the numbers except the 20 with a 3 then I have a die that almost always rolls a 3. However, it's just as random as the first die. I still can't predict when it's going to roll a 20. Just because there are tendencies within a system doesn't mean it's not random. I can accurately predict the outcome of the system 95% of the time, but this a fully random system. Just because a system is highly predictable doesn't mean it's any less random. It's the same die. It's the same random.

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Also, and here's a big one, random doesn't mean uncontrolled.

If free agents (agents that have free will) exist, then we would expect their behaviour to be mathematically random. If it was not mathematically random, then we would be able to prove that they were not a free agent.

I've genuinely always been confused about it. Is this a goal oriented political movement? Is it just a matter of personal choice? What does veganism want to do?

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If over the next 10 years everyone in the world converts to veganism, what does that accomplish? EDIT: I understand the basics here, but I guess I'm asking more if we need it to solve anything. Like it reduces greenhouse gas emissions, sure, but even if everyone became a vegan, it doesn't solve the environmental problem, the solution can only come from regulation and legislation. It reduces factory farming, but since there would still be a demand for pet food & whatnot, it wouldn't eliminate the practice, the solution to factory farming is legislation and regulation.

And like, all of the problems that are helped by veganism I feel like can be solved without veganism. If we regulate and legislate veganism doesn't feel necessary?

Idk I'm not trying to debate bro, I'm just confused by veganism is all

I understand the red pushers logic

But it's insane that people are trying to push it as anything but a shameful cowardly decision

The crazy thing isn't pushing red, it's defending it as the right choice

You push red knowing that you're a self serving coward. It should be a point of shame.

The fact that you have so little faith in your fellow man should be a great point of shame for you

The fact that you can't imagine a good world should be a point of shame

You should feel bad that you pushed red.

I get it, cowards exist. But cowardice isn't a positive trait.

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EDIT: okay some of you aren't just cowards, you're sinfully prideful. You think that unless you can decide the outcome with your vote, it's not worth voting for the right outcome.

You realize that's "rules for thee and not for me", right? That logic only holds if you assume others will be brave where you have been cowardly and vote blue so that your vote doesn't matter.

Everyone isn't going to vote red. 100% red isn't worth discussing.

Like, whether or not there is free will can be up for debate, I guess

But like, the universe is non deterministic

Current scientific consensus is that nuclear decay is non-deterministic (along with like, a lot of quantum level events)

If a thing is built from non-deterministic parts, the whole can never be fully deterministic

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Is the universe largely predictable? Of course.

There's evidence to show that like over 90% of human behaviours are predictable

But like, 90% of the actions of my car are predictable

Like, 2% of the pieces in the car control the other 98% so well, they influence that predictability

That all you have to do is work the pedals and the wheel and the car moves for you

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Does my heart beat on its own? Yeah

Does my breath happen on its own? Usually

Do the muscles in my legs fire in a predictable fashion when I walk around? Of course

But do I have the wheel? Do I have free will? By all observations, I definitely could

There's no evidence to suggest that I don't

There's clear mechanism by which I could have influence over my body in a non deterministic fashion

And whether or not I actually have control over those mechanisms, is fundamentally unknowable

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But there's something that isn't unknowable, and it's that the universe isn't deterministic

Local hidden variable theory has been disproven

Any Non-local hidden variable theory that could explain our observations would be definition have to violate causality

So either way, the universe is nondeterministic

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Why is this still a conversation?

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