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4d ago
A charitable person could argue that it's because the average AI researcher didn't know that Epstein was a convicted sex offender after his public trial and conviction in 2011, but I don't buy that. I was a dumb 20-something in 2011 and I knew about it. It was in the newspapers. It was on the news on the TVs at the gym
I really don't think this is true. In fact, you don't even remember the year correctly. It did have some news coverage but not much and basically nobody cared. The story started to pick up steam with the weird-online-right years later with pizzagate, it became a mainstream right wing talking point during biden but mainstream media continued to mostly avoid it until last year.
Even on google trends you can see that few were interested before he died. Bill Gates for reference.
It's very possible that for those people Epstein was just this guy with access to money that knew everyone. He had served a sentence but he was fully discharged and it was for getting a massage from a girl he might or might not have known to be underage, so whatever.
Over the last few decades, utilitarianism really seems to have taken over popular discussions of ethics. Sometimes I wonder if that doesn't represent a failure of ethics in itself. As far as ethical systems go, Utilitarianism is easy to hack. Ignoring second order effects, choosing peculiar utility functions, using unrealistic time scales - it's all wrapped up together
Ethics its one of the most bullshit branches of philosophy. All ethics needs to conform to your gut feeling of what is right and wrong and since that's not based on any a priori simple rule system they all need to be malleable enough to be made to conform. Outside of completely irrelevant thought experiments they also all end up being homomorph. How about we pretend they were christian? It says in the book of virtues that rape is bad but you also have to forgive, he paid penance, he shows contrition, Mary Magdalene and shit. There you go.
At the end of the day many evangelicals vote for an adulterer who grabs em by the pussy, why? Because there are other considerations, more important things. Ethics needs to be flexible, to bend which ever way. This is a good thing actually. The worst people in the world were the ones that took ethics seriously enough to suppress their gut instinct.
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5d ago
It's fantastic, isn't it? Medicine and car safety getting so far. I don't think I would have guessed correctly the order of magnitude of people who die in car accidents in germany.
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6d ago
"You successfully took down Cambridge's credibility and disappeared without leaving a trace. Nobody suspects anything. Great job, Agent 47".
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6d ago
While this number does not include self-inflicted gunshots (IE Suicides)
Disingenuous argument. So you are concerned about people killing themselves but only if they do it using a doctor?
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16d ago
Complete sideline but another fascinating Twitter drama of the week in the form of a UK wheelchair-bound disability influencer in a video that needs to be seen to be believed
Based on "I had a bit of energy on this day" I guessed that it would be one of those I-dont-feel-like-getting-out-of-bed illnesses that mostly women get, like post-lyme or fibromyalgia, and I was right, although the one she has in particular (FNSD) I did not know. Although she usually just calls it "chronic illness" for some reason. Reference video.
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21d ago
I can justify the murder of millions if my reason is “good enough”.
Can't you always do that anyway? Aside from hypothetical "no-killing-ever-ever" systems, the ones that really exist and are widely adopted always have killing exceptions, and they all revert to some kind of consequentialist decision process in sufficiently unusual circumstances (what is most virtuous? what violates the rules the least?).
I don't know, seems to me that all the talk about ethics is just wankery, that in the end it has to all be broadly isomorph.
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25d ago
It's both. Progressivism would be about recognizing gay marriage and women priests. There's really no dobut that the catholic church is pro immgration except in the minds of some online tradcaths that have projected their policy wishes on an organization because they like their buildings.
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25d ago
Catholic conservatives write two books (one even got 56 reviews on Amazon!) and go on the speaking circuit. Catholic conservatives get a majority on the Supreme Court and... devolve abortion to the states. There are no fewer abortions than before, no effective change. By some measures abortion figures actually rose, breaking a decade-long downtrend. Every ideology is doing something substantial and overt to advance their goals but the Catholic conservatives.
Catholic big wins are in immigration, especially in europe they have succeeded in greatly increasing immigration as well as legalizing existing illegal immigrants.
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27d ago
He'd still be excluded, in most cases, for being her teacher or for the age gap.
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30d ago
There are reasons for some of those and the entire population of that place is between one and two million people so coincidences are easier to swallow.
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30d ago
Is forbidden anime fitting in with the normies in 2026? I'm not so sure. I think it's closer to "we don't have a TV at home, we all read books after dinner together" in the 90s.
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1mo ago
The social contract existed because children started working in the field at 8, granpa died 10 years younger and you all lived in the same house. It broke because there are things that we like more, like having technology, mass scholarization, living longer and moving out.
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1mo ago
Is anyone keeping track anywhere? Is there a graph? Does it say anywhere which ships get through every day and who they work for? Did you check this yourself?
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1mo ago
It doesn't matter if you think nations should exist or not. You are not getting away from help thy neighbor, your choices are one world order or letting everyone who wants in. You quote Acts 17:26, I raise you Acts 17:27: "God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us"
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1mo ago
To be honest, I don't really disagree with you. Open borders ideology is really downstream of christianity in general, rather than just catholicism. What we really need is western shintoism.
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1mo ago
As a datapoint to this, Spain recently legalized between 500000 and a million illegal immigrants thanks to lobbying by the catholic church.
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1mo ago
I think it takes hundreds of hours, but those hours are themselves easy, unlike math
More like one or two thousand for each language.
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1mo ago
Sex-positive feminism never extended all the way to accept male sexuality, it's this weird thing where it's empowering to be a sex worker but evil to be a client. There used to be non-feminist sex-positive progressives but they all disappeared when SJW/wokes took over 10+ years ago.
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2mo ago
I was talking about europe not the us, still I congratulate myself on remembering the 2 weeks timespan correctly. The "moderate the tones" thing, it's not so much that they got near instant backlash over retaliating, what I'm saying is that they realizedd they have no constituency left going forward, it logically doesn't exist. If you don't believe me look at the +65 lines and the Democrats lines on that survey: what do you think it's going to happen when the 65+ die and the Democrats have power? And this is the US, the country that is going to be most favorable to israel going forward.
I lean in the other direction. Tying justice to the concept of freewill, the way we did, is a mistake. Freewill doesn't exist, everything we do has a cause it's just that sometimes the cause is too complicated and indirect to understand it. We call this type of ignorance freewill. The more we understand of psychology the less people will look culpable under this model.
This is a mistake, the point of justice (as in the institution, not the philosophical concept) is to make society better. A low IQ, hearing voices, to me are signs of an individual that is inherently defective and so should be given a harsher sentence.
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