DiscourseMagnus
16d ago
With current AI, sure, but we might not be too far away from AI bridging that gap from the other side.
DiscourseMagnus
17d ago
Yes, if we do manage to create truly transformative AI that obviates labour everything is on the table - I'm not too interested in litigating AGI timelines but if that does happen it's not just going to be a weak white collar labour market, we're walking out the other end gods or 6 feet under.
6 feet under what? Very amusing to imagine a superintelligence apathetic enough to exterminate humanity but sentimental enough to bury us afterwards.
DiscourseMagnus
17d ago
I have observed the same thing and I also think that the trans phenomenon is clearly one of social contagion, but I think your particular argument is very weak, practically self-defeating. Autism is generally understood to be an in-born condition of biological/genetic origin, and transgender activists would typically argue that they're the same way. A correlation between these conditions is exactly the kind of thing they'd predict.
It's much clearer to observe the spread of trans stuff through a community, how insular and tight-knit communities wind up disproportionately transgender through cultish dynamics and the memetic equivalent of the founder effect.
DiscourseMagnus
18d ago
To be clear, you're arguing that the side of the political aisle that voices moral disapproval of the industrialized slaughter of infants thereby demonstrates themselves to be Naziesque?
DiscourseMagnus
19d ago
If a man is so desperate for female attention that he'll suck up to a child killer or would-be child killer, he demonstrates his own failed moral character as well. He "matters" as any human being matters, but he should feel lucky he isn't being taken before a firing squad.
DiscourseMagnus
20d ago
I have to say that I found the roadkill metaphor extremely insightful. My belief that female promiscuity is unwise is fundamentally disconnected from my opinion that female promiscuity is unappealing. I don't think less of the moral character of a woman who's been raped - indeed, the crisis might even present her with an opportunity to demonstrate her virtue in some way. But it does give me the male equivalent of the proverbial ick, just as it would if she'd had casual sex voluntarily, or been divorced, or tripped and fallen down the stairs onto a man.
I think that this is also why I feel a profound discomfort when I see other men list things like "five or fewer sex partners" as their standard for a woman. Because they're obviously using the more rational standard of the woman's wisdom - they're judging who's wiser, the woman who's had sex with five men or the woman who's had sex with twenty. But in my gut, this looks to me like, do I want the barrel of wine with five spoonfuls of shit in it or the barrel of wine with twenty spoonfuls of shit in it, and I'm just thinking, uh, no, I don't want any of the shit-wine, thanks, I don't care how exactly the shit got there, I don't care to grade it on a curve, and if that's all the wine I can afford I'd rather just be a teetotaler.
I'm pretty sure you can safely eat roadkill if you manage to find the right roadkill and you cook it right. But I'd still rather just not do that.
DiscourseMagnus
20d ago
Much of this problem exists because religious conservatives alienated young women with the abortion issue.
If a young woman can be alienated by being told she should not kill her child then that reflects a problem with her own character. No compromise on this is necessary or acceptable.
The model that came horrifically close to nuclear war earlier this year, and would still seem to be on a long-term trajectory towards it?
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