I misunderstood how zpools work in relation to sets, and that systemd needs to be explicitly told to fuck off or else given comprehensive explicit instructions. So that was a lot of wasted time, but it's a known thing now. It will be sorted tomorrow.

zfs is working. The import command didn't work because I have no sets to import to, I just assigned each pool directly to a legacy path. Should work on boot: going to update my hardware-configuration file. Have a shutdown script to export everything before shutdown. So really the only terrifying […]

@Chip_Unicorn uhhh. First instinct is Finite and Infinite games, but that seems wrong. Not really compatible with the idea of office holding, not sending the right signals of commitment. The Bible is obvious and not objectionable except for misinterpreted signalling of allegiances. Epictetus is […]

This is also the solution to the Euthyphro Dilemma as clarified through the lens of our best epistemics and most fundamental scientific knowledge. Apologies to God. You still have a patch of land left to live on, it's just as a renter.

Transhumanist brain saying that the optimization of biology was a mistake of limited vision and morality is impossible when you precommit to limitations of being.

I mean it would matter more if you got some sort of comparatively large upside for being as non-lethally close to the train crash as possible to offset the risk of death. Maybe that's what this is, and it's just that the decision makers think they are insulated from even these consequences […]

Maybe it's BioShock infinite quantum woo bullshit. He is talking to the hyperposition of Booker DeWitt and Father Comstock.