SamoyedFurFluff

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by SamoyedFurFluff 23d ago
Do you have evidence that harsher punishments have a causal effect on crime rates?
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by SamoyedFurFluff 26d ago
Actually yeah Australian aborigines have a famously rigorous oral history.
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by SamoyedFurFluff 1mo ago
Why did many high IQ tech and science people vote for their own defunding? I’m not asking out of anger I genuinely don’t get it. Culture war issues like, idk, people becoming more brown by default in America, or a trans teenager participati
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by SamoyedFurFluff 1mo ago
Nah men by and large do not experience the same levels of societal pressure than women do to be attractive, modulo getting into looksmaxxing and other stuff, and even that is mostly to show off masculinity traits to other men and not actual
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by SamoyedFurFluff 1mo ago
??? Elonjet????
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by SamoyedFurFluff 1mo ago
I disagree with you largely. The vast majority of people I know have interests that drive them beyond a work they dislike. They follow sports. They golf. They cook. They are foodies. They enjoy mixology. They raise their children. They enjo
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
I actually disagree, I think B people care a lot if a created work is an intended artistic thing vs produced by a machine. It’s like the difference between getting someone a generic hallmark cards vs actually writing something inside. There
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
So you’re in agreement with me that “no politics” isn’t really a thing in a space? That’s all I’m saying. I’m using transgender issues as an example but my overall point is that there’s no such thing as a space that is focused around someth
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
I literally said in my first post that I am speaking in a board game context.
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
This isn’t a work context. This is a board game meetup, lol. Do you not have friends outside of work?
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
I think you’re missing my point here, which is that “no politics” is an impossible standard for any given social group even if the social group isn’t itself a political movement. There will need to be some measure of baseline politics, like
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
So forcing everyone to change their meeting place to a venue with a unisex bathroom only is not political, but a trans woman using a woman’s bathroom is political? Also, Helen still wants to be called Helen and still wants to be referred
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
I don’t see what you mean. It really isn’t considered civil to let men use the female restroom when a male restroom is available outside of circumstances like taking one’s young children to the restroom. If one sees a trans woman as a man,
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
That’s incredibly messy, for example, a friend of mine was recently forced out of the country because her Ukrainian refugee visa was revoked. Are you saying this community member cannot be sad or angry about this, because that’s too politic
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
Here’s the thing though: Helen is presenting herself to be called Helen. That’s inherently asking other people to call her Helen and imposing on people to allow a person they see as male to enter a female bathroom! For people who see being
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by SamoyedFurFluff 2mo ago
Inquiry: what do you define as politics? Example: is a trans person in your community political for using their preferred pronouns? Going to their preferred bathroom? Is a gay person political for mentioning their same sex spouse? Is an imm
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by SamoyedFurFluff 3mo ago
Objectively we’ve only become smarter (IQs have increased), stronger (fitness records continue to be broken), etc. since infant mortality shrank. If you believe otherwise please provide evidence.
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
Doesn’t one major fund reducing investment in fossil fuels and increasing investment in renewable energy precisely migrate towards the notion of helping solve demand and encourage technological breakthroughs and innovation?
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
Generally, academia has always had a measure of bias to it. However the bias was never so blatant and never so against producing an environment where good research could feasibly be created. The vast majority of research is non political in
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
I believe the evidence claimed is that there aren’t better outcomes for smart kids. Schools that claim they have better outcomes just selected for kids that would always have better outcomes. Like if I claimed my basketball team has better
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
I think games don’t have to be fun. There’s plenty of games where fun would be super inappropriate and yet the games are very popular. This applies to a lot of psychological or survival horror games. I think better is that a game must be co
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
Then we are at an impasse, because here is a guy who has been accused of rape actively doing a speaking gig, so…
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
Note that I was not speaking on the guilt or innocence of any specific person, just pointing out that when it comes to committing sexual violence the incentives to make accusations don’t appear to actually mete out as is claimed because the
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by SamoyedFurFluff 4mo ago
There really isn’t that much incentive to accuse a much wealthier man of rape. Famously, justice is rarely (if ever) metered out when the accused person is wealthy and influential. This guy (allegedly) violently raped a woman on his boat an
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LLMs Don't Understand BGP. Here's What It Takes to Change That(supertrace.ai)
5 points by SamoyedFurFluff 5mo ago|0 comments
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Live Updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman's Court Battle over OpenAI(theverge.com)
4 points by SamoyedFurFluff 5mo ago|0 comments
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by SamoyedFurFluff 5mo ago
I really like Ray Nayler’s work, who intersects his real experience in international politics with science fiction technology. His Tusks of Extinction uses the sci-fi notion of brain transfer and bringing back mammoths to explore the econom
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Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? (2025)(newyorker.com)
22 points by SamoyedFurFluff 7mo ago|53 comments
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by SamoyedFurFluff 7mo ago
No, sorry, a lot of the original post I was responding to was my bafflement that artists are supposed to be gatekeeping their strategies or techniques when it’s very evident to me that the art that moves me the most really didn’t gatekeep a
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by SamoyedFurFluff 7mo ago
Man this approach and philosophy about art baffles me because the greatest and most moving works of art to me couldn’t possibly be created by an LLM. For example “Electric Fan (Feel It Motherfuckers): Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Ea

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