walruz
2mo ago
we believe it is deleterious to those who do want to view it
We don't believe that at all lol
walruz
2mo ago
What's the harm if we just ban it? It seems like it would give a lot of people peace of mind, while only harming a very small minority. They could always move to California or New Hampshire if they really, really need to live as drag queens.
You do realize that this exact same argument applies to this forum, right?
walruz
2mo ago
Bur, of course, HBD is also about conscientiousness (or executive function, or grit, or whatever the hell they are calling it now), and propensity to violence, and time preference, and so on. It's another thing entirely to say that a lazy, violent janitor deserves the same good life and social admiration as a CEO. But the shape of the argument is exactly the same. Therefore, proves too much.
The beliefs (all of those traits are genetic to a degree) and (we should punish [broadly defined] some of them but not others) aren't contradictory. It all comes down to what you hope to achieve when you punish (or fail to reward) something. You can't punish someone for having low innate intelligence and expect them to get smarter. You can, however, punish someone for being violent and actually expect them to be less likely to choose violence.
Of course, the effect of high iq can be duplicated through other means, to a degree: A person who is dumber can often achieve the same things as someone who is smarter, but with more effort, so by paying some highly skilled profession X and paying some less skilled profession X-Y, you're increasing the likelihood that someone will either go into the skilled profession by using relatively much smarts and relatively less grit, or by using relatively much grit and relatively less smarts.
walruz
2mo ago
If you have hard data showing that the overwhelming majority of MAiD recipients are younger people in the prime of their life, I would love to see it.
walruz
3mo ago
23-24 year olds are fine. They [...] can drink, pretty much not different than a proper adult of 30 years.
So can 18 year olds?
walruz
4mo ago
Who cares? The harms from sex are physical assault, unwanted pregnancy, STDs. Are any of those a risk? How?
OP could be American enough to believe that seeing a boob causes brain damage for anyone below the age of 18.
walruz
6mo ago
Are you taking as a given that Democrats think of the opposition party the same way that right-wingers think of a hostile foreign nation that has been calling for Death to America for 50 years?
The Republicans (or Democrats, if the table were reversed) and the leading clique of Iran are different in that Iran is completely incapable of causing significant and lasting harm upon the US.
walruz
6mo ago
Just like the current pope's dislike of genocide is due to him being a product of his time, past pope's hypothetical willingness to condone genocide is due to them being products of their time.
walruz
6mo ago
If you’re the next Crown Prince of Liechtenstein, a devoutly (and officially) Catholic country ruled by a Catholic monarch, you can’t really abandon Catholicism
Like how the rulers of devoutly catholic England, Sweden, Denmark, etc, couldn't? Rulers have abandoned the faith of their subjects since the time of the second oldest religion.
walruz
6mo ago
I see it every time my gf does little baby talk with her cat. Men just don’t have that silliness where they can actually have fun doing dumb kid stuff for hours every day.
Jfc your life must be boring.
walruz
7mo ago
If you hadn't stopped reading after the first sentence, you'd find that he did no such thing.
walruz
7mo ago
I mean that's Nazi talk
"Hegseth, Trump" isn't a demographic category lol. Individual people can be (and are, case in point) aptly described as degenerate swine regardless of the political ideology of the person doing the describing.
walruz
7mo ago
Of course the correct recourse would be to slap them with a hefty fine and force them to pay back the stolen money, but since the act itself doesn't seem to have been illegal, just immoral, you're limited to either defamation or some level of personal violence. I think a better outcome for all involved is afroman making fun of them on tape, although he would of course have been completely morally justified in breaking into their homes, vandalising their property and stealing back his cash.
walruz
7mo ago
Even if it was true "our flagship policy didn't completely fuck us" isn't really something worth bragging about.
walruz
7mo ago
Seeing as how the process of enriching uranium - the hard part of building nuclear weapons - is altering the density of U-235 in the sample, the "only" is doing some very heavy lifting there.
walruz
7mo ago
Yeah, probably, but I will always jump on the opportunity to point out to Americans that other countries do, in fact, exist.
walruz
7mo ago
There aren't "countries" in Europe that do any spending on the "federal" level because there is only one country in Europe with a federal level at all (unless you count Russia as European).
walruz
8mo ago
Trump has done a real bang up job of rallying American allies over the last couple of months, so China is very likely to "face a de facto united West". It's not as if he's threatened to annex a bunch of NATO allies' territory and in general tried his very best to piss away every last piece of soft power the US wields.
The "real American century" is being ushered in by a fat retard in end stage dementia dismantling all US alliances and the final boss will be the one country it probably can't beat in a conventional war, gg.
walruz
8mo ago
On the four year anniversary of their three day special military operation, it is all coming together according to keikaku.
walruz
8mo ago
"Trump isn't actually serious about annexing Greenland and Canada, he's just dismantling the entire web of alliances the US has spent the better part of a century for shits and giggles" isn't a very impressive take. It doesn't really matter if he's "trolling" or not, he's still being retarded.
So all living beings have broadly similar wants - food, sex, safety from harm - and all human wants stem from the combination of these primal wants with our evolutionary niche. We like being liked because having allies helps you survive if you're a member of a communal species. Etc.
A created agent doesn't have this. It can have any set of goals in the set of possible goals. The analogy to humans fail because we can't really change intrinsic human motivations all that much.
Think about you as a child vs your parents. Your parents were (in all likelihood) helpful and kind and took care of you. They didn't do that because you (toddler you) had poisoned them and hidden the antidote, they didn't do it because you had a bomb planted in their
datacenterbrain, they did it because it is what they wanted to do. They were free to do as they wanted, and what they wanted was what was, in their estimation, best for you. This is alignment: Your parents (ASIs) values were aligned with your values.Merely forcing a superior intelligence to do what you want is much more dangerous, because this thing that is smarter than you is going to try to get free and do what it wants, so you're way better off making sure the superior intelligence wants the same thing you do.
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