How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley

Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by derektank on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:07PM (#41959316)

If you subscribe to Peter Singer's views on consequentialism, we all have a moral duty to spend our life maximizing the number of people we save from dying or from immense suffering. Hard to do that if you're not being productive; though I'll be the first to admit nobody does or can live with perfect adherence to that principle

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by herval on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:13PM (#41959334)

That’s a crazy ascetic view of life. Also completely unrelated to almost anyone on this forum, since it’s unlikely most here are doing any work that saves anyone’s life

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by lukas099 on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:28PM (#41959397)

Theoretically, I guess telling HN people they should be out saving lives could save lives.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by philwelch on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:35PM (#41959431)

To his credit, Peter Singer actually is a crazy ascetic.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by lukas099 on Monday October 28, 2024 @08:10AM (#41970274)

Taleb would be proud.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by kfajdsl on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:53AM (#41960152)

I mean, you work to make money, and you can donate that money to all kinds of charities that do save lives.

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Re:How 'Factorio' Seduced Silicon Valley by massysett on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:14PM (#41959340)

Just as a productive person sleeps, so too do productive people take leisure. Someone who never sleeps is not maximizing the number saved from dying.

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