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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I accept that this idea is unlikely to be implemented, but I'm not why as a mere suggestion it deserves to be downvoted without any criticism being offered. Are there alternative systems that could work, or dangers with the one I prop
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I wish that when two different fact-checkers disagreed with each other, there was a higher level calibration/arbitration process that could hear out both sides and find a consensus. My intuition is that there are fact-checkers that foc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
We accept that governments can compel companies to be honest in their advertisements, and to include safety warnings and ingredients lists, in order that consumers in the marketplace can make informed decisions. For democracy to function, w
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Sure. Guilty of the deaths of the women who received unnecessarily dangerous and illegal abortions, guilty of the deaths in childbirth of women who otherwise would have had abortions, and guilty of something like (but less severe than) sla
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Jewish law is pretty clear that ... abortion is not murder. I don't know if you're a rabbi, but these rabbis disagree with you: https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-women-express-anger-aft...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Suppose that an omniscient moral Oracle decided to reveal that the correct point before which abortions should be allowed was indeed somewhere strictly between the two bookends you mention. (Let's say that a super-majority of the publ
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I mean, he’s not a rabbi or anything. “On the authority of Rabbi Ishmael, it was said: [A murderer is executed] even for the murder of an embryo. What is Rabbi Ishmael’s reason? Because it is written, ‘Whosoever sheddeth the blood of m
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The actual Jewish tradition is against several of those I think that Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, would have something to say[0] about that: “The law, moreover, enjoins us to bring up all our offspring and forbids wome
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This suggests there is a simple solution for the abortion debate that will satisfy the (claimed) intentions of both side: Abortion should remain legal until there are zero unadopted children in the foster care system (for more than a year)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You're right that the last thing elections need right now is for identity politics to be built into the voting process, but I think the article's premise would be equally valid if it assumed that the electorate cared more about po
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
There's some great thinking in this article, even though I'm not sure I completely agree with it. > We should simply ask voters to send a lot of signals (by voting for any candidate who strikes them as reasonably good) and we s
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Are you trying to say the law should prohibit helping people who handcuffed themselves and then lost the key? No, because metal handcuffs are not (and will never be) people, so that's quite uncontroversial. A more instructive exa
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
A great milestone, but it just highlights how bizarre it is that Microsoft are still supporting IE11 in other OS versions, including Windows Server 2022: > The IE11 desktop application will continue to be supported as part of the Windows
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Once societies start embracing the idea that terminally ill (or just mentally ill[0]) people are messy problems that need to be efficiently disposed of, the pressure on vulnerable people to do the "right" thing will only rise. If
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I don't doubt that the words are meaningful to you, but if you are trying to convey meaning to other people (rather than using text as some sort of performative art medium) then you might be more successful if you consider the perspect
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I have a "Sirius" question for you too. Do you know that "clanging" is associated with mental illness? "Clanging is a pattern of speech in which sounds rather [than] meaningful relationships appear to govern word c
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Have you not even considered the possibility that it might be humanity's embracing of science (however half-heartedly) that has brought about the degradation of man's psyche? Humanity flourished in the pre-scientific era, but as i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I noticed recently that authoritarianism is on the rise during this crucial generation in which we may produce the first AGI. The values and power structures we have now may end up being baked into the fate of the universe forever. Even wi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Don't you think that with Dogged determination we can get through the Ruff times? Or are we Barking up the wrong tree and need to go back to the Lab?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm reminded of an article I read about an AI that competed in a crossword competition and one particularly difficult clue it faced was "Apollo 11 and 12 [180 degrees]". I don't know if it would be allowed as part of a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Ironically one state did recently try to doom the NPVIC with a plan to not publish its popular vote totals until after the Electoral College meet. The section of the Wikipedia article devoted to this scheme is given the quaint heading: &qu
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The NPVIC proposal is doomed if even only one state rejects plurality voting(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, the word "only" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and presumably the intent is for it to mean something like "culpably".
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To be fair, Conservation of Energy is a law.
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The first part also provides a context for understanding the second part. For example the right to "bear" arms shouldn't be read as including a general right to brandish arms, even though a less constrained reading of "
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Back in June they announced they would use 100% recycled plastic in UK bottles[0], and in October they announced a prototype plant-based plastic bottle[1]. If other companies copy this, we're fast reaching the limits of how sustainabl
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> You may be able to argue malicious prosecution Another far-fetched strategy would be to argue that, because of the government's inconsistency about how the law is applied, the law itself might be unconstitutionally vague.[0] Th
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To give an example, the UK has passed seventeen "Statute Law (Repeals) Acts"[0] since 1969, the most recent[1] being in 2013, which repealed the whole of 817 Acts of Parliament, and portions of more than 50 others (on the advice o
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
No. No it couldn't. Still, there's something very on-brand about Apple making hardware that doesn't support Windows.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I take your point that NATO needs Turkey more than vice versa, especially as it is now hard to imagine Russia deciding to invade Turkey. On a 20 year time scale, though, I don't think that gas and oil will see high demand from NATO mem

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