Notices by Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)

@nielsa Sometimes constraints you wish weren't there are imposed on you and you have to make complex life or death choices. Like in the trolley problem. Like with triage.

Triage is (generally) meant to maximize the number of lives saved. Like the trolley problem hints at.

@hipsterelectron I"m sorry but why would you assume an *anarchist* is not for collaboration and cooperation?

@hipsterelectron One can choose to speak to prevent torture which is moral cowardice, but for anyone to assume they can withstand torture is absurd. "Well I would simply rise above psychological torture and excruciating pain done over days or weeks such that I would never say something that would harm someone who didn't deserve it." That is wishful thinking in exactly the same sort of way that "solving" the trolley problem is. It doesn't contend with the actual constraints imposed on us by reality.

@hipsterelectron

This is not a strawman. There is an entire genre of "I solved the trolley problem" posts like the image below.

And while they're mildly interesting in the sense of them commenting that the world is not built with human lives in mind, they don't really do the interesting thing of making someone contemplate what they value with one choice over the other or why "pull the lever and doom one" feels more right that "kill one person and donate 5 organs to save one life." Why are those different? What is the specific feature that makes us recoil from one but accept the other? *That* is what's interesteing.

So what does it say about Parker/Spiderman? Well, the writer could choose to make him pick his love which has consequences (deanonymizes him? gets her hated on for living while others died? etc.). Or the train which might leave him so heartbroken he quits fighting evil and more people die.

It would be exceptionally boring if he saved both easily or that Norman never became the GG because we live in a world without defense contractors (or whatever the version of Spiderman we're thinking of has as the back story).

@nielsa this is like saying triage at hospitals gets you effective altruism, which no it does not

*trolley problem is presented*

The least intellectually curious person on the planet: Well I would simply conceive of a universe where no harms happen and everyone survives unscathed rather than grapple with philosophical uncertainty or moral complexity.

I know I've asked before, but I can't find it in my notes. Can someone link me to a summary of why Telegram is shit/inscure/untrustworthy/etc. ? In particular with a focus on activists and not vague "well their crypto could be better!!!" Thanks.

Apparently this version is 3k words longer at present, some of which are snarky foot/margin notes. Brevity: not my strong suit.

My life is still a fucking mess, but at least there's no pending messages, and my actual to-do list is reasonably sized, the infinitude of anarchist tasks notwithstanding. Bless.

Through the powers of extreme caffeination (and shirking responsibilities whilst at work), I have reached inbox zero for every email address and chat app. Please clap.

Someone take away my internet privileges, please

Completely losing it at work on this here Friday afternoon

rectum : scrotum :: rectangle : scrotangle

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When all you have is a "bialetti and many beans" then even problem looks like a "drink more coffee until you're uncomfortably wired."

@nielsa the three humours of copulation

Any of you on these here feviberse who tag yourself as "stable" are fuckin LYING

Tag yourself. I'm "vibrating, twitching, unstable horse."

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