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by intellectronica 82 days ago
Every morning the turkey rejoiced and said to himself "oh joy, I'm such a lucky turkey, I don't have to do anything, the food is plentiful, I just eat and shoot the breeze the whole day long, what an awesome life!" Until one morning, the day before thanksgiving, the turkey rejoiced about the awesome day he's about to have ... just to be picked up 5 minutes later and dragged to the slaughterhouse.
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odyssey7 82 days ago
It’s a compelling story; but what you’re describing is, to the turkey, a black swan event, rather than an obvious inevitability that all the other turkeys keep telling the turkey is going to happen.
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mikkupikku 82 days ago
Years ago when you went into computers, you didn't have normies warning you that one day computers will program themselves? 20 years ago, nobody could tell you if this would happen in 20 years or 200 years, but I do believe there has been a general sense of this sort of thing happening eventually.
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intellectronica 82 days ago
Yeah, and the lesson is ... don't be a turkey :D

It's not a certainty, but if you're not prepared for an extreme event, it can be ouch.

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thrance 82 days ago
The good thing with stories is you can make them say anything you like.

Every morning the dog rejoiced and said to himself "oh joy, I'm such a lucky dog, I don't have to do anything, the food is plentiful, I just eat and shoot the breeze the whole day long, what an awesome life!". And the dog went on to have an awesome life of plentiful food, shooting breeze and leasure. The end.

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windward 82 days ago
So I get to continue the hedonistic life without having to plan for a long slaughter? That's not such a bad way to go.
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guzfip 82 days ago
No you don’t get the hedonistic life. The turkey gets a hedonistic life because its value is in its consumption. It’s worth more to its owner fattened up as much as possible.

You on the other hand, are not bred to be consumed. And in fact the fatter you are, the more expensive and less useful you become.

So what you get is more likely starvation, if you aren’t culled to free resources.

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windward 82 days ago
The fatter I am, the more capital I have. History bodes well for capital in times of peace.
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