Not sure what you mean. I'm not making any religious claim.
In a universe without free will, you do what you're already set (by a causuality chain) to do. This is simply physics and basic axiomatic logic, no God or 9gag Spaghetti Monster memes need apply.
Why do most people what they do? Because their are conditioned/brainwashed by school and society to believe in specific morals for their behavior.
Similarly, as bilekas suggests, the fact that "'trolls' are seen as cool in the online world" gave this man an active feedback loop for reinforcing this behavior.
He is influenced by multiple feedback loops: one that is encouraging this behavior (from the respective website) and one that does discourage it. In this case, the former one was stronger.
> Well, even from that perspective, "society" is giving him some strong feedback that this is not acceptable.
With the same reasoning, you can argue that people in this kind of internet forums gave him a strong feedback that the "society" is wrong here.
> Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head.
Theologists have been talking for æons about the essence of God and what the role of Jesus in the holy trinity is. Try to convince atheists that this æons-talking should turn their thoughts on religion on their head.
If you’re going to try and find a cutesy way to flip someone’s words around, you could at least flip the words around in a consistent way, rather than turning the entire sentence into sausage like that.
> If a factory increases efficiency resulting in idling of the machines for 2 hours thus decreasing costs, yet at the same time keep the prices of its output same - that would never ever considered stealing.
I disagree: the shareholders of the company clearly would consider it to be stealing if the machines were idling for the mentioned 2 hours (i.e. they are not used to produce more money to the shareholders) if there does not exist a good economic reason for this decision (e.g. the downtime of the machines is used for better maintenance of them making the production process more reliable; not spilling the market with the products enables the company to demand higher prices for the product (artificial shortage)).
Well as another shareholder I also wouldn’t mind with idling machines , because I am happy with the current production and profit and I am also happy that my company is not generating unnecessary pollution for unnecessary profit (and as you pointed out the marginal profit decreases with increased supply). I like the world I live in to be nice and safe for my children. Little bit long term point of view :)
Most shareholders leave the demand and supply planning activity to the companies themselves.They will not consider idling of machines on the factory floor as stealing.
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You're kidding right? Having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days was a scary experience. My smartphone and iPad are both cute and work unblinkingly every time all the time.
I beg to differ:
- no scary golden cage
- no fear of being surveilled
- it was possible (DOS) if you were seriously to understand at least huge parts of the whole OS that ran on your PC
- it was possible to understand the bare-metal software interface to the hardware; you had to, because if you were writing, say, games for DOS, you typically accessed the hardware (e.g. your sound card) directly.
> My theory is these designers dont have family members or they dont care about them.
Or they don't have family members with bad eyesight.
Or they actually do have family members with bad eyesight, but those are not active smartphone users.
Or they actually do have family members that both have bad eyesight and are active smartphone users, but they take the advice to simply buy a device a mobile device with a larger screen.
kllrnohj already wrote that Vulkan has no predefined source code language for shaders. I can imagine that the SPIR-V code of these shaders could have been hand-optimized by some team at AMD, so a textual reprsentation of this binary code is the version that the engineers at AMD work on.
Also: the license of the repository is MIT license, so you are free to reverse-engineer these shaders and port them to a high-level language of your choice.
> I hope they improve ROCm, and add support for normal GPUs, instead of only 6800xt+.
Also, AMD should finally support ROCm under Windows. Currently, the only application known by me that uses ROCm under Windows is Blender, and they use a beta version of ROCm from AMD with Windows support for building the respective Blender releases that is not available publicly.
> This argument is applicable to all digital things, but for some reason it is usually only applied to books. It seems that a lot of software being free would be much more beneficial than free access to Harry Potter.
The problem with distributing illegal copies of software is the (depending on the crack website possibly rather small) risk of malware/ransomware, and additionally the risk that the software contains phone-home functionality to detect illegal copies (BTW: my personal opinion is that one should avoid software with such phone-home functionality (even if you obtain your copy legally) like the plague if possible).
These are, I think, plausible reasons why the software scene is more biased toward FOSS.
> Doing actual rigorous proofs a computer can verify is enormously tedious and many Mathematicians dislike it for that reason, because the inherently subjective "elegance" and "beauty" gets lost in translation.
Couldn't we also interpret this fact that computerized proofs are currently often very unelegant as strong evidence that not a lot is understood about this topic and thus doing such "ugly" computerized proofs is the best we can (in most cases) currently do?
Science at the boundary of human knowledge is often quite ugly; as our understanding of it grows, it often becomes more beautiful and elegant.
The same as for free will can be said about God and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.