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> When one gets to be a certain age one begins to become attuned to this tendency of others' emotions to manipulate you This is incredibly optimistic, which I

> When one gets to be a certain age one begins to become attuned to this tendency of others' emotions to manipulate you This is incredibly optimistic, which I love, but my own experience with my utterly deranged elder family, made insane by TV, contradicts this. Every day they're furious about some new things fox news has decided it's time to be angry about: white people being replaced (thanks for introducing them to that, tucker!), "stolen" elections, Mexicans, Muslims, the gays, teaching kids about slavery, the trans, you name it. I know nobody else in my life more emotionally manipulated on a day to day basis than them. I imagine I can't be alone in watching this happen to my family.

jasondigitized 2y ago
What if this technology could be applied so you can’t be manipulated? If we are already seeing people use this to simulate and train sales people to deal with tough prospects we can squint our eyes a bit and see this being used to help people identify logical fallacies and con men.
- mrbungie 2y ago
  That's just being hopeful/optimistic. There are more incentives to use it for manipulation than to protect from manipulation. That happens with a lot of tech. Social networks are used to con people more than to educate people about con men.
sniggers 2y ago
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- komali2 2y ago
  > not wanting your race to be replaced Great replacement and white genocide are white nationalist far-right conspiracy theories. If you believe this is happening, you are the intellectual equivalent of a flat-earther. Should we pay attention to flat-earthers? Are their opinions on astronomy, rocketry, climate, and other sciences worth anyone's time? Should we give them a platform? > In the words of scholar Andrew Fergus Wilson, whereas the islamophobic Great Replacement theory can be distinguished from the parallel antisemitic white genocide conspiracy theory, "they share the same terms of reference and both are ideologically aligned with the so-called '14 words' of David Lane ["We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"]." In 2021, the Anti-Defamation League wrote that "since many white supremacists, particularly those in the United States, blame Jews for non-white immigration to the U.S.", the Great Replacement theory has been increasingly associated with antisemitism and conflated with the white genocide conspiracy theory. Scholar Kathleen Belew has argued that the Great Replacement theory "allows an opportunism in selecting enemies", but "also follows the central motivating logic, which is to protect the thing on the inside [i.e. the preservation and birth rate of the white race], regardless of the enemy on the outside." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theo... > wanting border laws to be enforced Border laws are enforced. > and not wanting your children to be groomed into cutting off their body parts. This doesn't happen. In fact, the only form of gender-affirming surgery that any doctor will perform on under-18 year olds is male gender affirming surgery on overweight boys to remove their manboobs. > You are definitely sane and your entire family is definitely insane. You sound brave, why don't you tell us what your username means :) You're one to stand by your values, after all, aren't you?
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    - komali2 2y ago
      Sorry mate I don't engage in weird identity politics like you do. Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory, full stop. Why did you pick that username?
      - mrtranscendence 2y ago
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        komali2 2y ago
        The question makes no sense. You've just asked me whether I plan to walk off the eastern or western edge of the planet. Why did you choose that username?
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    - KHRZ 2y ago
      Well, when you inquire someone why they don't want to have more children, they can shrug and say "population reduction is good for the climate" as ig serving the greater good, and completely disregard any sense of "patriotic duty" to have more children like some politicians such as Vladimir Putin, would like to instill. They can justify it just as easily as you can be derranged enough to call it a governemnt conspiracy.
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jasondigitized 2y ago

What if this technology could be applied so you can’t be manipulated? If we are already seeing people use this to simulate and train sales people to deal with tough prospects we can squint our eyes a bit and see this being used to help people identify logical fallacies and con men.

mrbungie 2y ago
That's just being hopeful/optimistic. There are more incentives to use it for manipulation than to protect from manipulation. That happens with a lot of tech. Social networks are used to con people more than to educate people about con men.

sniggers 2y ago

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komali2 2y ago
> not wanting your race to be replaced Great replacement and white genocide are white nationalist far-right conspiracy theories. If you believe this is happening, you are the intellectual equivalent of a flat-earther. Should we pay attention to flat-earthers? Are their opinions on astronomy, rocketry, climate, and other sciences worth anyone's time? Should we give them a platform? > In the words of scholar Andrew Fergus Wilson, whereas the islamophobic Great Replacement theory can be distinguished from the parallel antisemitic white genocide conspiracy theory, "they share the same terms of reference and both are ideologically aligned with the so-called '14 words' of David Lane ["We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"]." In 2021, the Anti-Defamation League wrote that "since many white supremacists, particularly those in the United States, blame Jews for non-white immigration to the U.S.", the Great Replacement theory has been increasingly associated with antisemitism and conflated with the white genocide conspiracy theory. Scholar Kathleen Belew has argued that the Great Replacement theory "allows an opportunism in selecting enemies", but "also follows the central motivating logic, which is to protect the thing on the inside [i.e. the preservation and birth rate of the white race], regardless of the enemy on the outside." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theo... > wanting border laws to be enforced Border laws are enforced. > and not wanting your children to be groomed into cutting off their body parts. This doesn't happen. In fact, the only form of gender-affirming surgery that any doctor will perform on under-18 year olds is male gender affirming surgery on overweight boys to remove their manboobs. > You are definitely sane and your entire family is definitely insane. You sound brave, why don't you tell us what your username means :) You're one to stand by your values, after all, aren't you?
- sniggers 2y ago
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  - komali2 2y ago
    Sorry mate I don't engage in weird identity politics like you do. Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory, full stop. Why did you pick that username?
    - mrtranscendence 2y ago
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    - sniggers 2y ago
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      - komali2 2y ago
        The question makes no sense. You've just asked me whether I plan to walk off the eastern or western edge of the planet. Why did you choose that username?
        sniggers 2y ago
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  - KHRZ 2y ago
    Well, when you inquire someone why they don't want to have more children, they can shrug and say "population reduction is good for the climate" as ig serving the greater good, and completely disregard any sense of "patriotic duty" to have more children like some politicians such as Vladimir Putin, would like to instill. They can justify it just as easily as you can be derranged enough to call it a governemnt conspiracy.
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