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There's no universal human instinct to commit human sacrifice, and while it may have happened in scattered groups it wasn't "commonplace." On the other hand th

• rayiner 3mo ago
  It wasn’t “scattered groups.” It was common among the Aztecs, who were the largest population in the new world. It was practiced in Mesopotamia, Iron Age Europe, and other places. That demolishes the idea that there’s a “universal human sense of fairness.”
  • mullingitover 3mo ago
    Of all the hills to die on, this is one of them I guess. You and I have access to the same LLMs which have been trained on the corpus of scientific research, and they'll tell you the same thing I am. Take it up with [gestures broadly at science].
    • rayiner 3mo ago
      “Science proves there is universal ethics” is a poster child for “people are treating science like a religion.”
    • breezybottom 3mo ago
      I can't even tell if you're joking, or if this is what AI psychosis looks like.