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  • But listen, epistemologically, you’ll encounter the is-ought problem, and without taking an “objective judge” into consideration morality will always be fought by corrupt scholars.

    You literally ignored the entire point behind my previous comment. You don’t need to establish an “objective judge” because the traditional ideas of morality are already observable as an optimal strategy to go through life, and we can observe it via experimentation.

    I don’t get why you insist on a nonsensical rant instead of just letting the other person have the last word when they prove you wrong. And at this point, I don’t care. You’re not worth wasting anymore time on. If you insist on sticming your head in the sand and ignore reality, then go ahead, but you’re not going to be bothering me with it because you’re getting blocked. Tata



  • And how can I talk about objective morality without God?

    Here it is! Here it fucking is! The single most overused thought-terminating fallacy that Jesus nuts like to pull out!

    The answer to your question is that we don’t need a deity to declare what objective right and wrong are. We can use game theory. If you want to watch an admittedly better explanation of it, Veritasium made a video on it last year, but I’ll recap it below.

    Decades ago, researchers set up an experiment where they paired various algorithms against each other, with each algorithm having different rules for approaching the prisoner dillema. And each pairing went on for hundreds of turns. Then the researchers tallied up all the scores. Thry noticed that almost all of the “nice” algorithms scored higher then almost all of the “mean” algorithms. And they redid the experiment multiple times with tweaks to the experiment, like randomizing the length of interactions between algorithms.

    The overall rules that caused this highest scores were:

    1. Start off picking the option to cooperate
    2. After the first exchange, respond in the same way they were treated in the first round
    3. A decision to not cooperate only affects the next decision, it doesn’t continuously affect every decision after that
    4. On rare occasions (<10%), cooperate on the next turn even if the other algorithm chose to not cooperate.

    Essentially it boils down to being polite, treating others how you wish to be treated, and being forgiving past transgressions. Strangely similar to what religions tend to teach, right?

    It turns out, these are actually emergent properties that appear in any system where you have series of interactions between individuals. It’s not divine provenance, it’s natural selection.









  • On Chromium, when you’re in a tab group you get a narrow toolbar on the bottom to quickly swap between tabs or even close tabs. When looking something up, you can pick 2-3 pages in the results to open up in the group and flip between them quickly to compare and build consensus. Without that on Firefox, switching between tabs takes 3 taps and it’s really annoying.

    In addition, tab groups end up filling the same function as separate browser windows. They server as a way to scroll through tab topics in a very condensed manner, since I can have one tab group for Skyrim mods, another for gardening, one for 3D printing, etc. So then you scroll through topics instead of having to scroll past 20 tabs on one topic, 12 tabs on another, etc.

    What I personally don’t get is why Mozilla insisted on implemented them on desktop instead. Tab groups are just redundant in that application. Maybe someone else finds a use for them (and that’s good), but it’d be better for them to fill out a missing niche first before adding more.

    Also, I’ve noticed some people recommend Firefox’s tab collections. Those are not the same thing. They’re just glorified bookmarks.


  • Have you not been paying attention to Mozilla lately? They’re barely any better on this.

    And on the racism point, we’re talking about an internet browser. If you’re going that far you’d have to throw out the Call of Cthulu rpg because Lovecraft was a racist or stop driving cars because Henry Ford was a Nazi.

    We’re comparing 2 different browsers, and the one everyone is recommending here (Firefox) is filling itself with AI and ads just like the one you’re all bashing. The only difference is one has a feature that I can’t do without, and Mozilla has been completely dropping the ball for years at catching up.

    Get your red herring bullshit out of here.

    And FYI, don’t bother responding. You’re clearly not arguing in good faith and you’re not worth wasting any more time on