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17hr ago
Concern and dislike are different things. The pew poll is about concern. The reason they are concerned is because they don't want AI to take their job, the reason AI applications have so many users is because it's convenient when AI takes someone-else's job.
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17hr ago
Suppose we have two groups of people, A and B. Group A generally finds right answers, but for wrong reasons. Group B generally finds wrong answers, but for right reasons. Which group would you rather be in?
I think you are overdosing on philosophy. If group A generally finds the right answers it has a generally correct model of the world. They could be wrong in the sense that newtonian physics is wrong but a better way to think about it is that it is approximately correct under certain circumstances. Your hypothetical presupposes a definition of correctness that's beyond just making correct predictions.
To the general point you were addressing, you shouldn't adopt a model of the world that correctly predicts one thing if it happens to do it for the wrong reasons, because it will be generally wrong.
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4d ago
The argument that the wrong side won comes from people that have externalized all the problems the west developed onto the jews.
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6d ago
if the Nazis had won, there’s no indication that they would suddenly have switched from their extractive economy based on slave labour and exploiting conquered countries for raw materials.
I don't understand. It doesn't seem to me that german economy was any more dependent on slave labor than any other european country, arguably less since they didn't have any colonies. The countries they conquered during WW2 they had for a handful of year, all of which spent at war.
The average person is obviously worse off in a Russian-aligned economy, I don’t see how you can argue otherwise
I don't know, to be honest, that you can extrapolate the past into the future. The EU has made some serious mistakes in the past 15 years, it seems to me that we are set for irrecoverable decline. Not that Putin's rule would make things better, but also not much worse either.
As someone who lives in a EU country, that’s just plain false. I can live, work and retire in 27 countries
No, you can't. You can work in 27 countries and you can live there as long as you can prove to be self sufficient but not retire. Even access to healthcare, beyond emergency stuff, is going to be complicated.
You don’t get screwed by hidden fees, whether you’re booking a plane ticket or getting a hotel.
Well, actually, regardin hotels a lot of places now have a tourism tax that you get charged for at checkin time. That sales tax is always included is really cool but the EU is still a bureaucratic mess, I'll refer you to Draghi's various reports on the difficulties of starting cross-border european companies.
You can take almost any cultural form of degeneration and you can plot it out.
Nudity in movies is almost completely gone. Basically all forms of drugs taking except pot were more accepted in the past. Heroine was legal for about 20 years 100 years ago. Calling things you don't like gay was ok in the 90s and now it isn't. Calling things you don't like was ok, then it wasn't and now it's back. Most of the world until the mid 1800 had no age of consent laws, the places that had them often set it apallingly low (like 12), in 1980 the blue lagoon was released with partial underage nudity, these days there's talk of raising the age of consent to 21 or 25, which would make the blue lagoon underage pornography because of the male lead . Slavery was almost universally legal until 200 years ago and now it isn't unless it's men getting drafted to go to war. Abortion before quickening was legal under common law until last century, then it wasn't and now it's back. Alcohol consumption was ok for most of history, then people advocated against it and now it's back. Eugenics was bad for most of history, then people advocated for it, and now it's back to being bad. Absolute monarchy was considered the good christian way to rule a country and now it isn't. Etcaetera.
If you dropped your 25 year old grandmother fresh from 1959 or 1949 she’d be shocked by how far we’d fallen culturally and morally.
She would probably also be thrilled at how much women have advanced in society.
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1mo ago
Definitely agree, but it's very different. The prequels were not a problem of vision, but of execution (for the most part). They failed because Lucas was old and thought he was better then he was, not because he tried to please too many people.
The basic idea of the prequels is fundamentally bad. The cool thing about the original movies is that the force (and jedis by extension) was mysterious it could do miracles but you didn't know if it could any specific thing. That only works if there are almost no jedis going around (which the original trilogy did, Luke wasn't even a real one), if you fill the setting with jedis it either becomes a fixed set of spells (the prequels), which only appeals to DnD nerds, or a deus ex machina that solves every problem (the sequels), which appeals to nobody.
Don't bring up the EU, nobody reads that.
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1mo ago
I've seen about an hour and a half of the beginning and about 30 minutes of the end. It seems ok. A handful of observations:
- NKB has this weird idea that the head writer for something like fallout or masseffect isn't a public figure and criticising the work of Pagliarulo or Hepler is offlimits, I don't agree. Saying that Hepler leaving didn't improve BioWare's output isn't a defense, incompetent people in positions of power are usually a symptom
- The only thing I didn't already know from the parts I've seen is that Zoe Quinn has claimed that her mother died on three different occasion. It makes a good pair with her birthday having multiple different dates
- I wonder if anyone, when the fullbright company imploded, wrote the stereotypical "we all knew gone home sucked, but we couldn't say anything because the detractors were misogynists"
- Gamergaters insisted that McIntosh was ghost-writing Anita, judging by the performance of feminist frequency after he left they were almost certainly right, I don't know if he goes over this, but it's interesting
- At the end he mentions Dames Making Games in passing. That part of the story is really unclear (what was her involvement, how it intersects with Holowka), I hope some day we get the real version of Zoe Quinn's adventures in Canda
- I think it would also be interesting to look forward from Gamergate. If you see it as a "war" of sorts, or a battle within a war, it can be argued convincingly that anti-gamergate won. All the reputable references to gamergate describe it as an harassment campaign and Anita Sarkeesian's objective of making gaming more feminist was undeniably achieved. Yet, gaming journalism is basically dead, a fraction of a fraction of what it was in 2014, and this years gamescom was wall-to-wall chinese games featuring tits and ass.
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1mo ago
I suppose I’m advocating for the spectrums to be less sticky, or for words to have less of a gravitational pull. Clancy will likely receive a modified sentence based on her state of mind. Yet, what ought we to do with people in the midst of mild, manageable psychosis who may still yet have impaired judgment? Maybe they don’t get away with a full insanity defense, but their sentence could be modified accordingly. This is why I oppose mandatory minimum sentencing. The job of the court — and the court of public opinion for lesser matters — is not just to determine what happened, but to determine the appropriate consequence. The question is whether or not this is a utopian suggestion. Is human nature too punitive to implement this mindset at scale? Are we interested in justice or just blood?
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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1mo 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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1mo 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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1mo 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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1mo 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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2mo 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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2mo 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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2mo 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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2mo 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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2mo ago
He'd still be excluded, in most cases, for being her teacher or for the age gap.
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2mo 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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2mo 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.
How do you know what does and doesn't have a God-given eternal soul?
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