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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This is false. Handguns and other small arms, for example, cause a reduction in violence as they proliferate through society, due to the fact that the use of force is not the exclusive purview of the physically strong. [Citation needed
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by CRConrad 2y ago
What's the difference? AFAICS, global social media is US social media. (I mean, hey, I'm here, aren't I? Where do you think I live?)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> i am very skeptical of narratives saying that young boys or men are more misogynistic than in the past. They don't even have to be more misogynistic than in the past for there to be a detrimental effect. Because so many other th
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The very existence of dangerous weapons, be they nukes or handguns (or swords or tanks), makes the world less of a safe place than if they didn't exist. Existence is pretty much the most inherent attribute anything can have, AFAICS, so
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I am puzzled how it is OK to kill people of other countries, but not your own. The former is rather universally regarded as regrettable, but sometims necessary: It's called "war". The latter, pretty much never. Also, the
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Do any country histories remain pure with such a long timeline? You know the old joke, "Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance; Americans think 100 years is a long time", I presume? OK, so I'm a European, but sti
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> US has to win the race because while it's true that it's no angel, it isn't an authoritarian dictatorship Yet.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Is it proven to be massively profitable? Oh sure, yes. For Nvidia. Gold rush, shovels...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It's a valid concern that AI technology could potentially exacerbate inequality, it's not a foregone conclusion. No, but looking at how most technological advance throughout history as at least initially (and here I mean not
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> How do you think countries will behave if every country faces being wiped out if it makes war on another country? As I recall it, that was what Skynet was supposed to be for.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> "nation state" doesn't mean what you think it means. So what do you think it means? And what do you think the GP meant? Feels annoying as fuck, bitching "your definition is wrong" without providing the (presuma
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines) Get back to me when that can ressurect me after I've been dead for a week or so.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> we value what has Worth as a collective treasure, and the more Value is produced the better ... So, yes, if algorithms strict or loose could one day produce Art, and Thought, and Judgement, of Superior quality: very welcome. Except tha
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I don’t understand how your second paragraph follows. It just seems to be whining that text and art generative models are easier than a fully fledged servant humanoid, which seems like a natural consequence of training data availabilit
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I would argue that comment implies that something might be alllowed, but not everything. I read it as at least "they permanently remove your ability to send" (or possibly even "they shut down your account").
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> as stated earlier this process took thousands of years. Just because you repeat something doesn't make it true.[1] Do you have any actual support for your clam that it took thousands of years? ___ [1]: Except for the Goebbelian
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Furthermore: > Who is supposedly at risk of being fired if not the person who wrote the document? The one who stands to benefit from the lie. In the case of the ordinary Joe that is of course one and the same; he can't afford to hir
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Which brings us back to the start of this sub-thread: "Never leave an infant/toddler alone with [dogs]." (So this whole discussion just went round in a circle.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If horses were not the reason, what then? They spread what, 5000 km in a couple centuries? You can walk that in a few months, no horses necessary.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Another Science News article(1), linked from TFA IIRC, says we are: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gene-facial-development-... ___ (1) Plus another one linked from that: https://www.sciencenews.org&#x2F
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Most research in Dunning-Kruger related experiments makes a glaring assumption that results on a test are evenly distributed enough... Not only evenly distributed; isn't the very first underlying assumption they make, so fundament
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> In both cases, they identify and scan something No, as I understood the GP comment, if you opt out there won't be anything for them to identify and scan, because you can't send anything. > Not sure, if there is out at al
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Should Altman fire himself He probably won't, so someone else should do it for him. (Ideally, someone who seems so shady should of course never have ended up in such positions of power in the first place.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The idea that "DARPA is incompetent" because they promote hair-brained ideas Hare-brained. It refers not to hair on the brain, but to hares not being the world's smartest animals.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I don't, because it doesn't. It rather obviously does, AFAICS -- would we be having this discussion if it didn't? ;-) > The reason I post such long The issue for me certainly isn't the length, but the tone (or &q
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If the typical rational user will have seen many posts about YC critical news not related to celebrity gossip they will immediately know such claims are unfounded and have public references to it. No, if it looks to them like many&#x2F
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This looks like a flimsy story from a couple of months ago about something from many years ago. "Here's me obediently following the rule (Oh, the world is so full of silly rules!), but let me editorialise a bit on why any sto
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Problem is, the "bad things" the rich want to stop from happening are usually what the rest of us are doing to stop bad things from happening...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
It's not Ok to be an asshole or a snake. You calling that "character" doesn't help; assholes and snakes are not OK characters to be. (And I think in order not to be able to grasp that, one would have to be an asshole or

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