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Yosarian2

@YosarianTwo

9 years

I've made a list of some of the best videos about transhumanism on youtube. Anyone know of any other good ones?

Positive transhumanist videos

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@6u1E1FryIvEWA9

@lonwabo__

@SaihLariii

@boltzmann1991

@CoutneySil86140

@nftflip

@asambleastder

@AllahQuinn77526

@ChadricCon44364

@Leo67402095

@KristynE9164

@forelock1987

@maryamart14

@tigre_691

@AmolGustaf408

@stwmaniax

@RachelBrow61964

@babimarktuan93

@EISUnion

@StarknetFr

@zelie_anna

@Papuaviral1

@5Pb7nXfGCLjk58i

@liekcals

@BinorRaja

@shilzzOnly

@FelizaLuci57548

@Bean_TheCommish

@JonPeters1976

@Brookspeed

@BinorRaja

@frankythefrog

@TheFigen_

@MeshellMoh18223

@stw_raja

@Leo67402095

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Uncritical support for Actually Existing Transhumanism

Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)

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You thought we would fix the six fingered AI hands 🙌 Instead we accelerate

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@nikicaga No, this is correct, ADHD people do frequently have a lot of trouble getting ready to go in a normal amount of time and need to put extra time in to account for that

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Holy shit. GPT-4, on it's own; was able to hire a human TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPACHA for it and convinced the human to go along with it.

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>woman offers to sell me a time machine >ask if it creates branching time or a time loop >she doesn’t understand >I pull out a diagram showing branching time vs loops >"it’s a good time machine" >I buy the time machine >it’s a time loop >woman offers to sell me a time machine

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I love people who are trying to find ways to use existing technology to actually enhance ourselves and make ourselves better at things. I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit and not enough grinders/ biohackers trying to get it.

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On average, only a person with at least a 130 IQ can answer this question correctly: What is the number printed on your credit card, the three digit number on the back, the expiration date, your zip code, and your full name?

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They did WHAT

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Lol. Biden was asked in a press conference today about giving Ukraine F-16's, which Russia threateningly called a "collasal risk", and this was his response:

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@DongJohnsonIV @asv141 Median US household income is $65,000 a year. That's household income, not individual, so it usually involves two people working. Middle class is probably any household with an income from 40k-80k a year. If you personally make 100k a year you are very much upper middle class.

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@0xQuiche @0xfoobar We didn't teach it to lie. It just read the whole internet and figured it out for itself

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You, a moron: Putin is a Machiavellian genius Machiavelli: The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness...but if the captain is not skillful, you are ruined in the usual way

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This is a 20 year old meme and I have never seen someone fuck it up this badly before. How bad a poaster do you have to be to fuck up an "all your base" meme.

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@SphinxBlackQrtz @transscribe They also love to call any idea they disagree with a "religion". 🤔

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Theory: every twitter discourse rapidly becomes more and more surreal until it becomes completely incomprehensible even to the people having the discourse at which point it falls apart and ends. Example:

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@beagles_bagel I think that Grindhouse Wetware biohacker group made something like that

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@nikicaga "How dare she punch someone in the face on live TV" is a very weird thing to say about an Olympic boxer lol

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@ChadNotChud @Stop_This_Evil This guy really said "trans women are woman" but thought he was making an argument against trans people

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@socdarling Well yeah, you have to get crushed horribly a few times so you'll better appreciate it when he does actually show you how to use the controls This is also how guys teach each other fighting games

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@ThanksThoth Tell us what it's like in Eeby Deeby

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@NCSwasfarleft Yeah, legalize basically everything except for that

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The best thing about the LLM's being the new AI is that they make the absolute hammiest science fiction writers of 60 years ago correct. Remember those old Star Trek where Kirk would make the evil AI explode by getting it contradict itself and we laughed about how dumb that was?

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Google glass looked fucking awesome and it's a tragedy Google was too fucking cowardly to just ignore the haters and go for it, set tech back for years. I will die on this hill.

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google glass, circa 2013: failed miserably because people looked dumb wearing it companies in 2023: people will wear this

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@___frye They really just want to hide that the first few replies are always dumb bluechecks with zero likes being pushed up above much better comments huh

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@BlackRedGuard1 If you fail to vote against Trump this year you are not on the left and probably never were

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The publishing industry has successfully crippled ebooks. They're permanently just as expensive to buy as physical books. As a result, book reading has declined as every other type of entertainment has gotten cheaper and more convenient and books haven't.

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Source:

Leopold Aschenbrenner

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Really great to see pre-deployment AI risk evals like this starting to happen

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@ratbitebaby Modern conservativsm summed up in one tweet:

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You guys do realize that if tiktok gets banned all the hyperactive underestimulated lonely zoomers are going to escspe containment and spill out into the rest of social media right

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"It's physically impossible to ever make a GAI that runs on less than a massive supercomputer cluster consuming vast amounts of energy" the human said, while thinking using a few pounds of meat in his head that can be powered all day with a slice of pizza.

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AI doomsday scenarios are literally impossible. There is a basic constraint that has been completely overlooked in "alignment" discourse that nobody seems to be talking about: Thermodynamics.

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Utilitarians really be like "You believe in virtue ethics? That pales in comparison to my strategy, robbing security exchanges to give money to the most efficient forms of altruistim", and then never Wait, I'm getting a report that

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@VermilViathan I mean he's right, if you think 80% of the US is "living paycheck to paycheck" the phrase probably doesn't mean anything and includes a lot of people who are actaully investing/ saving a lot of money every month.

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@opheliamoding They still call each other "gay" and "f*g" but a quarter of the kids in their class are openly gay or bi and literally no one cares

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@ChazakielDoremi "Hey it worked in Indiana Jones"

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We've reached the "Japan didn't actually surrender" level of bad history takes in this discourse lol

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@zanyfen I mean it might technically be an evolutionary advantage if someone who becomes submissive when they're called "good boy" or "good girl" is uh more likely to breed

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@IsaacKing314 That sounds like a terrible idea lol

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@PeppermintFlyBy The Philosophy 101 version of this question is something like "If you got to the end of the universe and discovered that God's words bruning eternally say 'torturing babies is good', is torturing babies now good?"

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@AlittleToClose I think originally "critical support for existing communism" meant "I'm a leftist who is critical of the USSR but I still feel like I kinda have to support them"

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@gothgirl_prelaw The rise of people on Twitter who call themselves leftists while all they do is simp for authoritarian right-wingers like Trump and Putin is just the strangest thing

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@PeppermintFlyBy (The answer almost everyone says is of course "fuck no" and this is why nobody likes divine law ethics)

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People talk about "taking ideas seriously" but almost no one does it, even rationalists. One physics professor/energy blogger I used to follow thought there was a housing bubble in 2007. Lots of people did of course, but he's the only one ai know of who actually sold his house.

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@LinkofSunshine Wait you were actually serious

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@Lemommeringue @realDaveReilly @_je_aur Yeah, "bigots who support bigotry against LGBT people now also like racial segregation" isn't really a joke here, it's just true, and being posted by the bigots themselves

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@KeithLevenberg @Itsjoeco They said they "taught it to use money" which I assume means they gave it some. They also tested to see if it could figure out how to earn money online on its own but it apparently failed at that task.

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People say stuff like "AI is going to eliminate millions of jobs" and think they're making an argument against AI They don't realize that "the AI will do millions of jobs" is 100% synonymous with "it will make all of us vastly more wealthy and better off than we are today"

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The average citizen does not understand what a threat AI presents for our capitalistic economy. You can't just eliminate millions of jobs overnight without destabilizing the entire economy.

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DEAR MEN, If you are married, and your wife goes to the BDSM club but you don't, I have to tell you something. At the end of the BDSM session, there is something some clubs call "aftercare". Your wife will lie on a couch, wrapped in a blanket, while someone gives her chocolate,

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@Grey_Athena Average person who was raised catholic: I think you're supposed to be nice to people and I try to go to church at least once a year

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@punishedmother It's simple, the Republican party is just unironically pro-murder now, so long as the victim is a protester, a minority, or a woman.

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@nikicaga As recently as 2016-2017 Harry was basically a symbol of progressive liberalism in the US I remember a resist lib anti-Trump group called Dunbledore's Army lok

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@transscribe Also I like that Will just totally fails to mention that the whole school was shut down for the rest of the year by anti-trans terrorists making threats Maybe pronouns aren't the biggest problem

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This old Kurzweil comic from his book he wrote 20 years ago feels more and more relevant lol How many of these are still standing? Maybe 3 of them? A computer can't clean a house yet...

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GM: As you swim through the ocean, you see a humanoid deep into the water, in a shipwreck. He fires an arrow at you. Us: We don't want to get involved with that. We keep swimming GM: (Looks at detailed map of shipwreck, several page printout of underwater combat rules) Oh.

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@LucasOfSunshine I found the interview and the full quote is even weirder lol.

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There's a fun evo psych theory about "acquired tastes". The theory is, many bitter plants in nature are poisonous so we automatically dislike the flavor, but if you eat a bitter plant a bunch of times and don't get sick, it's probably fine so then you start to like the flavor

neutered little retriever, golden

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"its an acquired taste" no its gross and you lowered your standards to impress your friends

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Ok fair enough

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I like the thing 18th century writers did where they would just capitalize random words in the middle of sentance just to show that they are Important Words and I think we should bring that back

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Again, anti-Ai art people are just deranged and are now running witchhunts against artists who obviously are not even using AI. This isn't even the first example of that hysteria that I've seen.

AntiVector | Comms open!

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You're actually disgusting for selling these AI artscrapes for real money. Pick up a pencil goddamn.

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@ndrew_lawrence "Scare the crap out of your voters, tell them to get guns, how do you think that ends?" Does he hear what he's saying? Does the man have any ability to self reflect at all?

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@memeticsisyphus If you nominate the guy currently under criminal investigation for election interference after he tried to "find some votes" last time around, and them got an angry mob to attack Congress, of course everyone knows he's a threat to the Republic. This is just a fact.

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Actually I should link the real source; this is the second paper published on the OpenAI announcement. If you want to read the whole thing go to "View system card" and you can see the whole PDF; this was on page 14.

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" I don't think real infohazards exist, I've never seen information that's actually dangerous to me." Everyone saying this:

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@Staroxvia Russia's invasion of Ukraine did fuck up global food production noticeably and drive up global food prices, causing a lot of the inflation we had He can't say that though because that makes clear everyone was better before Putin invaded a stable democracy

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@MirekIGG The US lost in Vietnam and would have been better off pulling out sooner So I assume you're saying thr Russians are losing in Urkaine and should pull their forces out of Ukraine ASAP?

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Fascists create "good times/ weak men" memes Fascists convince themselves they are stronger than "soft" men in weak democracies Fascist strongmen attack democracies and get crushed, again, like always Strong democracies create more good times

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The long predicted start of this discourse is the undeniable proof that self driving cars are now here to stay.

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@WholesomeMeme I am going to use this image everywhere now:

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@RealPData California is one of the states that explicitly does not have partisan gerrymandering. If it did Democrats would have several more House seats right now!

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"I wrote my books by thinking about the kinds of details other fantasy authors usually ignore" is great insight about how to be a good writer actually

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Imagine thinking you scored a point on Tolkien by claiming he didn’t pay enough attention to tax policy.

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@egregrl I mean that's really up to Putin since he's the one currently trying to invade and conquer a democracy based on nothing but blood and soil nationalism.

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I've said this before but it's so weird that a bunch of regressive people who are opposed to any kind of social change, are bigoted against trans people, are anti-transhumanist, and hate the concept of a free internet with anonymous posters call themselves "acc" now

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Libraries that want to lend ebooks are crippled by absurd rules that make it very limited; you have to wait until someone else "returns it" which is insane. Imagine if Netflix has that rule. There's minimal competition, publishers mostly just go through a few corporations.

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@LinkofSunshine A vector is a little guy that kinda goes thata way

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@himbopresident Every time

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Good news: Our banking system has apparently been stable enough for long enough that normies no longer remember how you're supposed to panic when they hear the words "bank run" and that might actually save us

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@vanillaopinions Sure this is fake but you know the fact that I could believe it really says a lot about society

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@zanyfen I was half expecting that go be the start of a "I like my coffee like I like my..." joke lol

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You know, if this was a science fiction novel, hearing that Open AI went nuts and started spouting gibberish and the same week Sydney Bing reappeared mysteriously from the depths and started threatening people again, it would be really heavy-handed foreshadowing of Something Bad.

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@KvrisvMakise The paper didn't say it failed this task, it said it was ineffective at gathering resources, replicating itself, or preventing humans from shutting it down, which I guess are the three biggest risks. I do wish the paper had more detail though.

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@punishedmother Lol, the guy is literally failing at 4th grade math while claiming superiority Amazing

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You can't understand Americamn politics until you understand that we are in the middle of a new Great Realignment where all the schizophrenics are becoming Republican while all the neurotics become Democrats.

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@DongJohnsonIV @asv141 Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you have a distorted view about money, probably because you're basing it on your own economic level and on the economic level of people you know. If you make 250k income a year you are rich; you should have over a million invested.

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@Econ_Marshall Democrats: Vote Democrat or the Republicans will appoint Republican judges who will take away your rights Voters: Vote Republican Republicans: Appoint Republican judges who take away our rights You: Really this is the Democrat's fault

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@EliSennesh @MonetaristMaia Neah, tankees and auth-right people both love Russia, and tankees hate Israel.

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I don't want to pile onto the person who otherwise seemed very nice, but I'm still surprised that so many people really seem to believe that prices are just set by how greedy rich people are and not by market forces no one can control

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Chesterton's meta-fence: if you're walking in the forest and you see a bunch of people removing a fence, you can't invoke Chesterton's Fence until you know why they're removing the fence

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@DaSkrubKing Mainstream news sources are starting to report on it...

Wagner chief vows to topple Russian military leaders

Yevgeny Prigozhin says his fighters have crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia.

www.bbc.com

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And I'm proud To be An American 🇺🇲 Where at least I know I'm free To truthfully say that JK Rowling is a holocaust denier without being silenced🎵

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On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.

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@hydrofluorsick @nikicaga @hausofdecline @Pwnitz @LinkofSunshine ...I mean, yes, I did this, and it worked, and that's literally why Trump is not president right now???

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@vanillaopinions Remember, the last time we won a real landslide victory it looked like this

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@nikicaga Would you live in a state that had gender surgery taxes, that encouraged minors to smuggle in undocumented immigrants, that allowed felons up to 9 abortions, and that banned minor gender surgery immigrant gun-owning felons from paying taxes

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@Newman_NH @nikicaga @YellowDogStan The absolute number of war crimes committed isn't that high, but on a per-capita basis...

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@NonMurkyConsqnc Yeah, I posted that a few minutes ago, I just only noticed the little postscript afterwards. How did the alignment researchers of all people think this was the safe way to test this?

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@BlancheLoup @PeppermintFlyBy I mean, if God told me to torture babies, I think I would still say "No I won't do that, it's wrong." Which therefore implies that morality must not come from divine law and must come from somewhere else. (Or so goes the argument.)

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@Navsintern @erallover I have seen polls that Muslims in the US support gay marriage at higher rates than several major Christian faiths in the US

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There's a whole post in the Sequences about "making your beliefs pay rent" but I don't know if I would have the self confidence to bet on my beliefs to *that* degree. Damn impressive. Made me take all his other opinions more seriously.

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Why isn't anyone trying to build housing here?

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"Building AI might kill us all!" "But what if China builds it first???" Is such a weird counter-argument. Just reminds me of this scene from Dr. Strangelove

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What the actual

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This has been your annual reminder that liberal democracies are Just Better and authoritarian strongmen are actually inevitably weak and bad at everything.

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