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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
“Why do black students underperform compared to white students?” “Whitey bad” “Why do white students underperform compared to asian students?” “Whitey bad”
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
> So, it’s very important that some of the first words you want to get people to hear are the words good, bad, right, wrong, normal, abnormal, should, shouldn’t, have to, and can’t How can you manipulate the first words that people hear
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
At the risk of being rude, I’ll ask you to reread the bit that I quoted. It reads very much like a description of how an intelligent agent might consciously manipulate the entire system of language. It doesn’t sound figurative at all to me.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Horrifying. But also horrifying that treatment costs so much. Supposedly we have to let drug companies charge extravagant prices because it costs so much to discover new treatments, but there has to be a great deal of inefficiency there. Ar
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I would categorize that with violent activities. You’re taking action that physically harms someone with an obvious causal chain. Give me some leeway here, by the way—I am allowing myself to be “socratized”…
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>You can control people’s minds to a large extent by the language you put in their heads. So, it’s very important that some of the first words you want to get people to hear are the words good, bad, right, wrong, normal, abnormal, should
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>The researchers wrote the base solution for each of the problems themselves, so their results represent an example of human-AI collaboration
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Because it doesn't fit the definition of violence.
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>There is no sane reason to restrict violence to the immediate physical. There is no sane reason to restrict sane to mean of sound mind . It should also mean blue . How sane the sky is today! Much better.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Poisoning someone is using physical force. Why would you think otherwise?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>the other things you've listed are the default state of nature That depends on what you consider to be the default. If you're talking about pre-agricultural man, the difficulty of life varied based on population density. A ban
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Quibble: let's not pretend that Christianity is nearly as bad as Islam, either in theory or in practice.
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It's not just that you need a system that adequately prosecutes and punishes crime in order to keep vigilantes in check. Most such systems evolved as an explicit alternative to systems based on vendettas or lynching. These latter mo
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The most talented poets have been writing lyrics for like 80 years now.
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This doesn’t pass the smell test. Only a third of people in their 30s who can work from home want to do so full time? Try 90%. Something must have been wrong with the survey, or it’s just fraudulent.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The term doesn’t have to be a dog whistle. The financial and corporate elite want open borders in order to maximize rent-seeking and depress wages.
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What's truly outrageous is what loading this page did to my CPU
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Unfortunately, stupidity is much more common than insanity.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I’m not advocating the assassination of CEOs or board members, but in the back of my mind I’ve always wondered why it doesn’t happen regularly. People on both sides of the political spectrum have a deep hatred for the corporate/financi
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Yes, and…? In a stateless society, how would the landed deal with squatters? Couples therapy?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The US Dollar is quite the meme! If you’re a US citizen and you have an income in any currency whatever, you have to acquire US Dollars to pay taxes with, or else you’ll eventually wind up in jail :)
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The dollar is backed by the fact that you can pay any debt with it and (if you’re a US citizen) have to pay your taxes with it.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Show me an economy that only uses bitcoin and doesn’t depend on cashing out to one fiat currency or another and I’ll allow that it’s a currency.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>Galileo could say: 'I noticed that Jupiter was a ball with moons and not a god in the sky. Tell me, what happened to the astrologers?' Well, they print their results in the newspapers, in the United States at least, in every d
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The public spaces of a state belong collectively to the citizens of that state. The state government only administers them. That's essentially what statehood means. By putting the word their in quotes the poster is implying the unsta
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The “populists” request that their tax dollars go to citizens rather than foreigners and the elites respond with musings about the reproductive strategies employed by ants.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Why the scare quotes?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Bookmarked, but I'll need a demo before I pay. Why not verify the user's phone number and let them make one or two free prank calls to themselves?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I have...good pitch? If you play notes on a piano I will guess right significantly more often than I could by chance, and my misses will often be one note away. Not perfect pitch, and not useful in any event.
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If all developed countries suddenly opened their borders completely, we’d end up as one giant third-world country. Besides, why stop there, libertarians? If borders are immoral, why not property lines? Private property is just as much a cre

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