antibasilisk

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by antibasilisk 4y ago
I was responding to the text I quoted.
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It's not as bizarre as perhaps you might hope, you would be surprised at the number of people coming to similar conclusions and who trod a similar path to get there. People like Daniel Haqiqatjou and Nick Fuentes didn't pop up out
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>Religion is in no way a force for bringing people together. Anti-Semitism is rampant among many Christians. Catholics and Protestants have quite a history of not seeing eye-to-eye. Shia and Sunni Muslims are pretty notorious at this poi
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Only because they haven't understood the situation.
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>How then do you explain the case of Iran I cited? Islam enforced as the state religion, leaving it is punishable with death (at least in theory), and yet there has been a huge decline in Islamic belief over the last few decades. That&#x
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Religious people generally necessarily believe that religiosity is good and atheism is bad. So suppressing atheism is clearly in our interest.
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>In what way is atheism a danger or harm to society except that it violates your proposed monoculture? Violating said monoculture is a problem in itself because it leads to a population that cannot collaborate or agree even broadly on mo
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by antibasilisk 4y ago
And the class action lawsuit will be orchestrated by an AI
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Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that Dawkins bad = religion true. I'm only giving an indication as to the emotional reaction that prompted me to start pondering certain things.
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by antibasilisk 4y ago
Because of the prisoner's dilemma. It is more often than not beneficial to a given belief system, for that belief system to suppress alternative beliefs. Various expressions of atheism are subject to this too. We see this more explicit
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>How would one determine whether I were a non-believer? It would be according to what is apparent from your statements, observances and symbolisms. If you wear a cross or a sockcloth for example, you are counted among the Christians unti
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>If you actually believe something is true, trying to compel people to believe it is a very counter-productive measure, because it doesn't convince people to believe it – they may outwardly pretend to believe, but inwardly they&#x27
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by antibasilisk 4y ago
If you didn't have porn you would have greater incentive to pursue a sexual relationship
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this is overwhelmingly not the case, they actively look for terrible men because they enjoy the drama. pain is better than boredom etc.
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Desiring sex is literally the foundation for all sexual relationships. Otherwise there's not much difference to hanging out with your bros.
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I've seen a number of people report experiencing a similar worsening of their pre-existing porn addiction thanks to Stable Diffusion. It really makes me worry for the future.
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Real sex usually brings some sort of human connection
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>From your list of Athiestic influences I'd say you spent way too much time online! That's an accurate observation, but being a zoomer, it's also pretty standard.
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Yes
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I'm very Americanized owing to the amount of American content I've consumed, especially due to the internet. For example: I also say 'dude' and use American spellings for words.
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>One other problem I've seen with some of the most outspoken atheists is that they fundamentally seem to misunderstand the role that religion plays in many people's lives. One interpretation of this apparent misunderstanding, i
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>Because you found him to be off-putting? Or you found his arguments to be weak? It was the juxtaposition of the hubiris against the weakness of the arguments. I'm generally put off by people who think they're much smarter or s
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by antibasilisk 4y ago
To give a counter-example, watching Dawkins growing up is the reason why I have radical religious views now.
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You would be surprised how many 'functional' meth and coke users there are.
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You're right that it doesn't match the hype, but the idea that it doesn't have any use outside of war zones is just demonstrably false.
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>As a decent first-order metric - follow the ratio of companies getting money for using LLMs to do something, to companies getting money for providing LLMs and associated tooling to others. The bigger that ratio gets, the more real world
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>Why would ChatGPT provide me with dangerous code if I prompt it benignly? Because it's a black box that's sensitive to unexpected inputs. Humans create bugs too, but an unaligned AI doesn't have the sense to be careful of
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>Executing "arbitrary code" that InstructGPT models outputs based on your instructions is not a danger. This is a grossly irresponsible and categorically false statement, in very obvious ways.
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I definitely agree with her point about the division over zero case not implying impossibility, but I also disagree with the implication that division over zero is necessarily infinity.
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>Or are you of the belief that if you watch an online lecture and read a couple of books you can start making valuable contributions to mathematics Yes.

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