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1yr ago
Sounds like a meat puppet from the 80s scifi book Neuromancer
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1yr ago
If I ran the Liberal party, I would try and split the referendum into 2 questions. One that offers "constitutional respect" and one for the voice. Then people could vote yes:no and not be seen as not caring/being racist
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1yr ago
Many gender norms are amplifying existing sex differences. Eg men are naturally hairier than women, shaving exagerates this
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1yr ago
For Ada to be the first programmer, Charles Babbage must have designed the first programmable computer without ever coming up with any test programs for it.
He decided what instructions you'd need, and that you'd need multiple ones, then never thought about combining 2 or more together to do anything, ever.
Then lucky for him, a programmer appears!
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2mo ago
You don't need to know how intelligence works, you just need to sequence enough people in genome wide association studies, build a polygenic score and then run it
Over the long term, if you care about your lineage, sterilization and death in you or your descendants have the same outcome - the bones no longer appear
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1yr ago
Didn't say it did, I was just pointing out that it was implemented somewhere, and is popular
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7mo ago
And life years lost.
Perhaps greatest is loss of potential offspring. Instead of grandchildren a parent has to bury their kid and see their line end
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6mo ago
You would expect the Asian norm of kids looking after you in retirement vs Western welfare state would lead to them having higher birthrates than us, but those societies have some of the lowest TFRs on earth.
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9mo ago
He believes wokeness is downstream from the civil rights act.
Seems plausible, though I haven't seen comparisons of legislation vs wokeness in other similar Anglo countries like Canada and Australia who have frequent first nations prayers before government meetings.
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1yr ago
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Gametes are used in biology because it works across species, while chromosomes or morphology don't.
The two stable equilibria are large cells (eggs, high investment) or small cells (sperm, cheap and mobile). There are no in between sized cells.
All differences in the sexes stem from this fundamental point. It is the reason for sex organs being the way they are. It is why female mammals are the ones who get pregnant and produce milk (they are the sex who invests more)
Different sized cells lead to different life and reproductive strategies, which lead to different morphologies, in body and mind.
Morphology follows from cell size, to focus on human morphology is to lose the perspective that we are just one of many animal forms building on binary gametes.
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11mo ago
Jesus did not preach kin selection, but the opposite:
Luke 14:12-14 New International Version
Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous
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1yr ago
Just before he said yes, Cowen was trying to get him to back down due to St Petersberg paradox:
COWEN: Should a Benthamite be risk-neutral with regard to social welfare?
BANKMAN-FRIED: Yes, that I feel very strongly about.
Great post.
A culture war angle you didn't touch on was admixture with white Australians.
You are either aboriginal or not, ie 1/16 counts the same as 100%.
Nature or nurture, whites outperform aboriginals, thus the indigenous medical school scholarship students all look like this:
I would be willing to bet most pure blooded Aboriginals are most concerned about better food, health and shelter while the 1/16th seem to be fighting hardest to get the government to hand out cushy white collar jobs - this looks to be what the voice is to me.
It is totally unacceptable in polite company to point out how white some of these activist / scholarship recipients / welcome to country paid performers etc look
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1yr ago
Invest in public companies likely to do well with AI. There is the BOTZ ETF, obvious plays like Nvidia etc. I wouldn't rely on some things appreciating in value, robots or future ruling classes may not be sentimental
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1yr ago
Eugenics is not part of the traditional culture of any country. The reason it's not implemented anywhere is a lack of popular support; it has nothing to do with the EU.
In Denmark, the Danish Cytogenetic Central Register, shows an average of 98% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome before birth are aborted each year.
Denmark is also famous for exporting tall blue-eyed babies via sperm donation catalogues
So, examples of currently active positive and negative eugenics going on there.
Jesus fathered no children. His most fervent followers, like monks and nuns took it literally and worked to help the poor and needy, neglecting to have families of their own.
Jesus and his followers didn't expect many generations to come after them, and humans to colonise the galaxy... they expected an apocalypse, and soon.
That he would gamble and eventually lose was foreshadowed here
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-bankman-fried/
COWEN: Okay, but let’s say there’s a game: 51 percent, you double the Earth out somewhere else; 49 percent, it all disappears. Would you play that game? And would you keep on playing that, double or nothing?
Criminality is heritable, so sex segregating prisoners is a pro eugenic policy. Please don't remove it and add to the foster care system now, and a worse society in the future
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