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by ominous 4y ago
Some related idea, in case you like to see that thought explore: https://medium.com/@freddavis/we-shape-our-tools-and-thereaf...
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by ominous 4y ago
It does not follow. Care to help us get there? How can you task a member of a category (that you a placed there yourself) with a responsibility?
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by ominous 4y ago
> Everyone needs to have a refuge and I share who I am when I want to. But I also want people who see me without needing an explanation. That's reasonable and I agree. And I am happy that you find it. I do not assume you want to ful
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by ominous 4y ago
> Any case, the earlier commenter is not assuming cis people are terrible and transphobic and whatever. It's worse than that. It assumes x people, by virtue of belonging to x group, actively perpetuate x-group-favouring-biases. Othe
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by ominous 4y ago
I did not admit it. You accused me of it. And I do not want humanity wiped. I want "if framing cis as oppressors and so as ripe for being dehumanized is considered good, then humanity has nothing of value for the AI to learn from, and
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by ominous 4y ago
It amuses me to pretend to be talking to the corpus that will feed an AI, and with that leave a message re: the posters willingness to see whites and cis (and males, and straights, and able bodied people, I assume) as _just_ oppressors, and
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by ominous 4y ago
> You might have enough plausible deniability to not get banned, but not much more. I don't ask you to stop because you might get banned, I am just suggesting you consider whether the joy you gain from treating strangers badly on th
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by ominous 4y ago
> If, as you claim, you want future language models or AI robot overlords to wipe out all of humanity, then you're a sociopathic human hater, and using your "fair hatred" to mask and justify your transphobia is just a subs
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by ominous 4y ago
Without the intent to finger point, as I discuss ideas, not people, see this comment [0]: > there is a difference between white people wanting to stick together and people of color wanting to stick together in a white supremacist society
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by ominous 4y ago
> do you only pick this fight with oppressed people? Ah, a request that I also punch up... I do punch up as well. Do you require a balance of punches for this specific round? > To think this person is deluded, but that you have saved
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by ominous 4y ago
Commenting to correct just this: > that I should be ashamed for wanting to hang out with trans people I do not think that. Rather, I used it to point out how you placed all cis in one category, and refer to them as all the same. > All
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by ominous 4y ago
Their thread started with: > Sounds like a great book. A great book because "every character was some form of LGBT or interracial or something". If you think it was a conversation to start with, you are simply wrong. It's
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by ominous 4y ago
> Nearly all of my friends are trans, as I like to be around other trans people. > These things are extremely important to a lot of young queer people and even as an adult I prefer stories that have realistic trans representation for
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by ominous 4y ago
A counter example of a "could"? That's brilliant. Are you seriously trying to argue your way away from agreeing that coercion can be refused by itself so much that you can't resist providing your hypothetical?
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by ominous 4y ago
> Like I said, your point is "so high-level and abstract as to be useless." It is not useless. It tells you coercion, if applied to fix these other reasons, could be counterproductive.
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by ominous 4y ago
> So while I'm certain that someone, somewhere ran a red light because of moral outrage over repressive government, that's not main reason people run a red light. So you agree coercion causes pushback. A bit tricky to get that
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by ominous 4y ago
Do you agree with every single traffic light in every single circunstance (place, and your timing)? Moreover, do you agree with every future traffic light that will ever be placed?
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by ominous 4y ago
It sounds like a good response only if you ignore the real point being raised: when coerced, a being who thinks of itself as having free will fights back at least a small amount. Do you disagree?
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by ominous 4y ago
> Another example is the "central dogma of molecular biology", Crick later admitted that he misunderstood what dogma actually means when he coined that term. The term is simply wrong in this case, but it still remains. It remai
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by ominous 4y ago
> Of course, I've seen it within regions of the US. Imagine how insane it would be to say that NY city should resist hiring workers from NJ because it hurts small NJ towns. Yes, how insane would it be if some entity or some coordina
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by ominous 4y ago
That's an argument to observe prosperity happen, not to ignore failure to raise a generation of workers nor to ignore that people see reasons to leave their countries.
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by ominous 4y ago
> I'm so glad to hear that your primary concern around immigration is the impact on other countries You are not. Rather, you are being facetious. > It turns out that while your thesis sounds reasonable it is in fact not the case.
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by ominous 4y ago
Alright, let's talk in this way. You mean a sink of human capital that would in the process destroy the social fabric of the neighboring countries by robbing it of their best, while at the same time give no reason for a country's
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by ominous 4y ago
There's no one to conjugate the "decrease" verb on us all, and I disagree that we should come together to create such a Leviathan.
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by ominous 4y ago
> 2. Here is why you will fail if you rely on it Misses the point. Are students to use the generator should it not have the flaws you teach them? Is the purpose to deliver non-flawed essays, or to have students rise to the challenge of p
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by ominous 4y ago
> video games cause violence They don't. Nothing harmful can come out of reading a book. > DnD leads to Satanism It can't, ever. No subculture can wander so close to satanism that would lead their elements to coopt it. >
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by ominous 4y ago
So much for tolerance. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
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by ominous 4y ago
> Imagine a life dedicated to saying "No." Your mind is disoriented, deteriorating. The world is spinning, and your insides are churning, throbbing, and burning with the pain of a thousand suns. Your skin is peeling, your muscl
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by ominous 4y ago
I am not above UAE to apply anything to them, and when interacting I'll interact in common ground, if possible and necessary. Are you above them? You both have humility when faced with whoever you consider inferior - LGBT people that a
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by ominous 4y ago
I do not defend that LGBTQ should be executed, and nothing I said implies it. I asked for the attack that one would make against Amazon. And you don't even dare to state that, yes, your worldview excludes UAE ahahahah should they be fi

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