CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> > > the goal of all of this is to create human level intelligence or better. > > The goal is to create human intelligence in machines > Maybe some biological/chemical processes are efficient in some unexpected ways
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> for which he was never convicted Uh, what's this thread about, again...? He "was never convicted" because he evaded trial by hiding out for seven years.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> it's blindingly obvious that Sweden wouldn't have had an arrest warrant against him without their meddling. No, that isn't "obvious" at all. > Still if somebody makes themselves an extremely prominent enemy
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Key points include the revelation that one of the women did not accuse Assange of rape but had her statement altered by the police. AFAICR, they showed up and said "What he did feels wrong, surely that must be some sort of crime?&
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Some women are raped by their husbands but stay married to them for years or decades, so what does that prove? (A: Nothing.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You already got used to them from the headline, so by then it's no problem. ;-)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Wikipedia's message Eh, yeah... WikiLeaks, duh.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Someone with integrity supports whistleblowers no matter who they blow the whistle on, I'm sure this revelation must be a surprise for you. What does that have to do with anything? Assange never was a whistleblower.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Just do your own research. If you were wanting to come off as less of a kook than the person you were talking to...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Det har jag också, och inte fan var de eniga om att han skulle vara oskyldig.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Or you see things very differently, the difference is that you are defending justy any arseholery as "journalism and hacktivism", while the GP wasn't. Funny how you seem to think that your view on everything, even on a differ
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Please don't patronize me just because you were wrong about the definition of whistleblower. 1) You're coming off as pretty darn patronizing yourself, too, so stones and glass houses. 2) Dunno about "the" definiti
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Or another way of looking at it: which is more important in the big (geopolitical or otherwise) scheme of things...politeness (deceit, ignorance, rhetoric, etc) or truth/accuracy? Not being a complete and utter asshole, like you a
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Isn't there something in the guidelines about chatbots not being allowed to post here? If not, there should be.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
How does him being one man and his opponent being at least a ("several"???) government change the fact that the seven years he spent in the Ecuadorian embassy were by his own choice? That half of his “years of torment” were a le
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The relentless "Russia bad!" parroting is very exhausting. You know what's even more exhausting? Russia being so bad. Also, whining about 'relentless "Russia bad!" parroting'. The way to end the &
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yes.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I'd ask you to consider that the situations in Syria and Ukraine are not nearly as straightforward as the US would have us believe; indeed, the US and Israel are, as usual, the main instigators. OK, you've sounded mostly reas
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by CRConrad 2y ago
What is an entryist?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Trump was ... not a March on Rome figure. Naah, he was only the March on the Capitol figure; so much better. (FWIW, they had/have a Capitol in Rome too. That's what the American one is named for.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> He repeatedly inferred that Seth Rich was his DNC source... ITYM he repeatedly implied that Seth Rich was his DNC source, so readers should infer it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I don't see how one follows from the other. It's also rather well known that Bernie was disliked by much of the Democratic establishment, so shouldn't that, by your reasoning, mean that WikiLeaks shouldn't have publishe
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If you're implying that I would like Putin, who I consider basically a Chechen-cuddler. Oh yeah, that's the big problem with him. Sheesh... > I don't see the Ukraine war as per se very different from the Iraq war. Y
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If Wikileaks accomplished anything, it was revealing the hypocrites and those who lack even an inch of integrity. It revealed some hypocrites who lack integrity. The main effect, if any, of their exposure was to pave the way for othe
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by CRConrad 2y ago
At least half of that he did entirely on his own. Nobody told him to hole up in the Bolivian (wasn't it?) embassy for seven years.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
There are people here exhorting others to listen to Putin-Versteher John Mearsheimer, so yes, that seems plausible.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Yes, you didn't, but the vibe of your message looks like whataboutism defense. No, it didn't. What you're apparently not getting is that Wikipedia's message -- and, by extension, your comment -- look like a defense-
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Rudy Giulliani, Hunter Biden, and many many more are able to easily make millions a year doing the bidding of various eastern bloc billionaires. Yeah, I remember the big headlines about how Hunter Biden was going to build a huge luxu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Russia is at the mercy of China. Now, yes. Back when this happened, it was still closer to the other way around. (Well OK, China wasn't exactly "at the mercy" of Russia, but Russia was still generally regarded as the sen
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Nudging and cajoling and perhaps berating our Swedish allies to jin up a "rape" case against him so he could be extradited from the UK to Sweden and then obviously to the US, and, denying that we were doing that was just dirt

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