TruthAndDare

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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> "sex" in legal terms (for identity documents, etc.) is rarely necessarily tied to genitals or chromosomes, and more often is tied to a set of expectations about how the designated person will appear or behave. When you put it
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Will all change be for the better? Who determines what is better?
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That's such a "politician's statment". Nothing of that is the contested point. The very question is whether the official system should care about genders at all or just stick to regular old sex.
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> Sex is a basic biological function that is no longer relevant to ascribe anything to beyond that. No longer? Was it previously but isn't any more? What happened to make this so? And why would gender have any function? Can't w
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Can't we still be hunters/gatherers?
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What do you mean? The premise was that there would be plenty of land to go around for everyone. Unfortunately, we have put ourselves in a position where land has become a scarce resource.
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Will a self-improving AI not do all the things you mention?
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What I'm saying is that lack of food, lack of health care etc aren't means to get you to conform to a social norm. They are simply a consequence of that you're not providing for yourself.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Unless we were overpopulated, it would still work out. That is, if everyone could go out and find a plot of land to live off. Better yet, all the people without access to automation could in form an entire economy among themselves. They wou
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> forced to live of the land Oh, no, living off the land! How could anyone ever do that?!
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Whoa, there! You must be deliberately conflating different things. Social norms isn't important here. The reason we work, if you didn't know that, is that it is a way to provide for oneself, i.e. earning money to buy food, a house
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> objections to democracy I'm afraid that doesn't say much. Are they striving for more centralized power (a dictator holding the power over everybody) or less centralized power (no one having the right to decide over other peop
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I think it's a piece of software. That's all I know. I don't know if it's something you run on your own computer or distributed on a blockchain or something. I guess it's supposed to be obvious. It's not obviou
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> No. You could eat a jar of it and nothing in your genome would change Um, I don't think that is what anyone is worried about, rather what can be done intentionally with it and to what extent we are still humans after a few generat
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
>It didn’t dawn on me that there might be a few holes in my education until I was about 35. I’d just bought a house, the pipes needed fixing, and the plumber was standing in my kitchen. Hehe, the obvious hole in his education was of cour
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> We use JavaScript and React to create the user interface with the help of Node.js and a long list of NPM modules. Does this make any difference to the user?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> Pithy answer: because you aren't going to be afraid of something when you understand that it's not something you need to fear. I guess we are all are against some things. For my own part, I don't see that when there is s
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Yeah, I mean, being strong as an ox would mean both that your abilities are superior to those of others and that you would make for a useful slave.
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Does it matter if it's true or not?
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> his belief that some ethnic groups are genetically better slaves I'm curious, do you take that to speak well or ill about the ethnic groups in question?