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author | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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committer | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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Add missing possessive to 'for NOUN sake' idiom
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diff --git a/content/entry/antinatalism.md b/content/entry/antinatalism.md index 59453ff..5d1a2e1 100644 --- a/content/entry/antinatalism.md +++ b/content/entry/antinatalism.md @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Since interpreting Benatar's premises in an absolute value sense leads to contra Even with clarified premises, Benatar's fourth premise places unnecessary importance on the act of procreation. I value well-being, in the end. If I create a happy person, that's equally morally good as making an already existing person happy. What's the difference between creating a happy conscious mind versus making an existing conscious mind happy? To me and I suspect to many others, there is no difference. To Benatar, that difference is everything. -Let's do a thought experiment for intuition sake. Imagine you are god. You decide to give the people of Earth a heavenly existence. The people of Earth are extraordinarily happy all the time. There is no suffering, not even a single mediocre moment for anyone. Everyone's debts are forgiven. Love and kindness and compassion permeate every human being. Every day is better than the last. Imagine the best moment of your life amplified a trillion times occurring in every human being every single microsecond. +Let's do a thought experiment for intuition's sake. Imagine you are god. You decide to give the people of Earth a heavenly existence. The people of Earth are extraordinarily happy all the time. There is no suffering, not even a single mediocre moment for anyone. Everyone's debts are forgiven. Love and kindness and compassion permeate every human being. Every day is better than the last. Imagine the best moment of your life amplified a trillion times occurring in every human being every single microsecond. For your next project, you create Earth 2.0, a duplicate Earth. You populate it with duplicate human beings with the exact same properties as you bestowed upon the original Earth's humans. It's full of happy people and completely free of suffering. diff --git a/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md b/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md index cfce132..c525278 100644 --- a/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md +++ b/content/entry/remote-fair-coin-flipping-with-friends.md @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ It is possible to perform a remote fair coin flip with 3 or more participants, b 10. Convert the value from step 9 back to heads or tails as defined in step 1. ## Flipping Multiple Coins with 3+ Friends -This is the most difficult coin flip: multiple coins with more than 2 participants. I think you get the gist of it by now and I don't really need to type all this out, but I will for completeness sake. Not much will be changed from the above steps though. +This is the most difficult coin flip: multiple coins with more than 2 participants. I think you get the gist of it by now and I don't really need to type all this out, but I will for completeness' sake. Not much will be changed from the above steps though. 1. Flip N physical coins. Heads represents 0. Tails represents 1. Concatenate the coin flip results. 2. Append to the result of step 1 a space followed by a [nonce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce) that your friends cannot easily guess. Never reuse the nonce. For the sequence heads tails heads tails heads, it will look like this: 01010 yabynkgpbfnagntyzvgvgmwaa |