Voluntary extinction sounds better. And humanity can give all the passwords the squirrels will need before passing the reigns over to them:)
The OFFICIAL Don't Boycott The Daily Puzzle Thread.
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May 6, 2016
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#23
trysts wrote:
Voluntary extinction sounds better. And humanity can give all the passwords the squirrels will need before passing the reigns over to them:)
I just wish other close-to-human species had not gone extinct before societies had started keeping written records.
Knowing humans, at some point we probably demonized them and brutally killed them at every opportunity 
Well, for a species to fight for survival I guess it couldn't concern itself with morality, so I can't really complain.
May 6, 2016
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#24
0110001101101000 wrote:
kco wrote:
0110001101101000 wrote:
alexm2310 wrote:
It was always going to be enabled again, Erik didn't even know it was disabled in the first place. That being said, the dp would be better without comments. Not cause of the stupid Yui spam, or even "first" and "easy". People posting solutions is worse than all those imo
This doesn't make sense to me. Do people actually read all the comments (or just a few pages) before trying the puzzle? Isn't that just... really stupid?
I make sure to not scroll down at all, and try the puzzle first before even letting other comments appear on the screen.
For example someone might ask "why not queen takes rook" and that's a big hint if I only read that.
People who click on the link on the left hand side will come to the puzzle but if you click it on the right hand side you will come to the latest comment so you might see the solution, not everyone will know that.
True, I had to figure it out the hard way.
But... this complaint strikes me as INCREDIBLY lazy, and made by casual players.
In puzzle books, it's common for solutions to be printed right next to each other. After you realize that this is the format, you simply have to have the discipline to not let your eyes wonder down.
Or if you can't manage that, then you use a piece of paper to cover it up.
So when a super casual player complains they can't train due to their own laziness... I tend to completely dismiss them.
buy a better puzzle book where the answers is at back of the book ! 
May 6, 2016
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#25
That's what I mean. And the answers are printed like this:
#13 lj;lkj;lkj;lkj;lkj
#14 ;lkj;lkj;lkj;lkj;lkj
#15 ;lkj;lkj;lkj;lkj;lkj
So if you're looking at #14, your eyes can very easily see the solution to the next problem too. Or at least which pieces are involved, or what the first move is.
May 6, 2016
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#27
0110001101101000 wrote:
trysts wrote:
Voluntary extinction sounds better. And humanity can give all the passwords the squirrels will need before passing the reigns over to them:)
I just wish other close-to-human species had not gone extinct before societies had started keeping written records.
Knowing humans, at some point we probably demonized them and brutally killed them at every opportunity
Well, for a species to fight for survival I guess it couldn't concern itself with morality, so I can't really complain.
I don't think we have enough of the story of life in this world before humans started saving the records of it. Maybe it wasn't so brutal before? Maybe morality was alot stronger?
May 6, 2016
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#28
trysts wrote:
0110001101101000 wrote:
trysts wrote:
Voluntary extinction sounds better. And humanity can give all the passwords the squirrels will need before passing the reigns over to them
I just wish other close-to-human species had not gone extinct before societies had started keeping written records.
Knowing humans, at some point we probably demonized them and brutally killed them at every opportunity
Well, for a species to fight for survival I guess it couldn't concern itself with morality, so I can't really complain.
I don't think we have enough of the story of life in this world before humans started saving the records of it. Maybe it wasn't so brutal before? Maybe morality was alot stronger?
Yeah, there's all this history we'll never know.
And you know, what about alien life, what if it's intelligent? What if it has empathy? What if...
But wait, we have access to that right here on earth in other animals and we don't give a ****. We kill them and abuse them and just generally don't care. Bonobos for example use language, use tools, and show empathy, but **** them right?
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As for morality, I don't know. Maybe when people talk about good, they only mean what's good for them (or their group). It's only now that we're comfortable enough to not worry about death all the time that we can contemplate a more universal kind of morality. So maybe it's all in our heads.
May 6, 2016
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#29
And with that... I better go buy groceries so I can have something to eat tomorrow lol.
May 6, 2016
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#30
0110001101101000 wrote:
trysts wrote:
0110001101101000 wrote:
trysts wrote:
Voluntary extinction sounds better. And humanity can give all the passwords the squirrels will need before passing the reigns over to them
I just wish other close-to-human species had not gone extinct before societies had started keeping written records.
Knowing humans, at some point we probably demonized them and brutally killed them at every opportunity
Well, for a species to fight for survival I guess it couldn't concern itself with morality, so I can't really complain.
I don't think we have enough of the story of life in this world before humans started saving the records of it. Maybe it wasn't so brutal before? Maybe morality was alot stronger?
Yeah, there's all this history we'll never know.
And you know, what about alien life, what if it's intelligent? What if it has empathy? What if...
But wait, we have access to that right here on earth in other animals and we don't give a ****. We kill them and abuse them and just generally don't care. Bonobos for example use language, use tools, and show empathy, but **** them right?
---
As for morality, I don't know. Maybe when people talk about good, they only mean what's good for them (or their group). It's only now that we're comfortable enough to not worry about death all the time that we can contemplate a more universal kind of morality. So maybe it's all in our heads.
Oh, you're soooo right about all the different Beings right here, right now on our planet and the way they're treated. I just can't get excited about space exploration, or about finding other species of animals here, or the whole idea of "growing" prehistoric animals from dna samples. It all just seems like ways to get other Beings imprisoned and abused.
Gotta get excited about space exploration, though, Trysts :)...at our current pace of technology it will only be decades before any religious fanatic with a Microbiology degree and access to a lab will be able to cause their own extinction event ;).
It behooves the human race to be seeded elsewhere when this inevitability occurs.
May 6, 2016
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#32
Maybe that could happen, btickler, where one person can cause an extinction event in the future. I never thought that
May 6, 2016
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#33
i dont even understand why people give a ccrap about the daily puzzle
May 6, 2016
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#34
Tom_Brady_SB49_Champ wrote:
i dont even understand why people give a ccrap about the daily puzzle
I used to like the hard ones, look forward to the analysis and the reason why behind the moves but this it get run over with craps. So, no longer enjoy it.
trysts wrote:
Maybe that could happen, btickler, where one person can cause an extinction event in the future. I never thought that
Technology is advancing several orders of magnitude faster than mankind's evolution away from baser instincts. Hard to win that race for the good guys.
In 30-50 years, someone operating at a chess.com troll level of maturity could have access to tweaking virulent pathogens...what do you think will happen? ;)
May 6, 2016
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#36
btickler wrote:
trysts wrote:
Maybe that could happen, btickler, where one person can cause an extinction event in the future. I never thought that
Technology is advancing several orders of magnitude faster than mankind's evolution away from baser instincts. Hard to win that race for the good guys.
It's more likely that one group kills all the other groups than one person kills everyone.
If we're just talking probability, then I think we should expect to see some more genocide before we see extinction.
May 6, 2016
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#37
trysts wrote:
Oh, you're soooo right about all the different Beings right here, right now on our planet and the way they're treated. I just can't get excited about space exploration, or about finding other species of animals here, or the whole idea of "growing" prehistoric animals from dna samples. It all just seems like ways to get other Beings imprisoned and abused.
Yeah, for long time I was excited about space exploration, but when this thought occurred to me it wasn't nearly as exciting.
I mean, the unknown is always interesting and mysterious, but we have life right here we take for granted and even abuse 
May 6, 2016
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#38
btickler wrote:
trysts wrote:
Maybe that could happen, btickler, where one person can cause an extinction event in the future. I never thought that
Technology is advancing several orders of magnitude faster than mankind's evolution away from baser instincts. Hard to win that race for the good guys.
I don't think humans need evolution to change their minds. We can always choose to do the right thing:)
TRextastic wrote:
The tactics puzzles don't have comments.
Yes, they have in version 3 of chess.com. And if I read them, they are mostly interesting to read.
This doesn't make sense to me. Do people actually read all the comments (or just a few pages) before trying the puzzle? Isn't that just... really stupid?
I make sure to not scroll down at all, and try the puzzle first before even letting other comments appear on the screen.
For example someone might ask "why not queen takes rook" and that's a big hint if I only read that.
People who click on the link on the left hand side will come to the puzzle but if you click it on the right hand side you will come to the latest comment so you might see the solution, not everyone will know that.
True, I had to figure it out the hard way.
But... this complaint strikes me as INCREDIBLY lazy, and made by casual players.
In puzzle books, it's common for solutions to be printed right next to each other. After you realize that this is the format, you simply have to have the discipline to not let your eyes wonder down.
Or if you can't manage that, then you use a piece of paper to cover it up.
So when a super casual player complains they can't train due to their own laziness... I tend to completely dismiss them.