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by eldritch_4ier 3y ago
This doesn't make any sense in actually real humans. Of course you can make edgy jokes you don't believe. This is clear to everyone in society except a rotating cast of puritans, where a decade+ ago they fundamentalist christians,
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by eldritch_4ier 3y ago
The absolute last thing they would recommend though is to stop the rampant hook up culture in the first place. For some reason people are really touchy about this suggestion.
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by eldritch_4ier 3y ago
Yes it does. Notice how STDs were far far less prevalent in the past than they are today, and far less prevalent in countries with a healthier attitude on relationships and sex. To your example specifically: don’t cheat either? Are you impl
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Just letting you know that "there's way more crime in blue cities than red cities" to "I want to disenfranchise millions of voters" is an incredible leap. The more likely conclusion they're drawing is "Dem
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
This just reminds me of the mayor of London saying terrorist attacks are just "part and parcel of living in a big city" or the mayor of SF saying the tent cities and drugs are a feature, not a bug. If at any point you're bein
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Have they not made themselves clear with all the talk about "celebrating fewer whites" in every part of society + "whiteness" itself being a scourge? Change "white" to black or jewish and the intentions are cle
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Where did you get that from? Sounds like you just have tinnitus.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
A wealth benefit for who? Maybe in terms of aggregate societal wealth, but in terms of relative wealth things have gotten worse (you can't buy a home and raise a family on a single income anymore for instance). Before: everyone had one
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Not the same person you're responding to, but I'd have tons of children too if the economics weren't a factor at all. There's just something incredibly fulfilling about raising a child. It's similar to the feeling y
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
You can look at fertility rates across rich countries, and what you'll notice is a rapid secular decline starts literally the exact same year that the birth control pill becomes legal. Go ahead and google fertility rates for any develo
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Everyone assumes there's a 2nd degree hidden intention. "You would only defend Trump on anything if you were a huge fan of his!"
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Crazy to see how the level of white in anglo countries has fallen like a rock.
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Ask HN: What are the goal posts for whether AI is smarter than us?
2 points by eldritch_4ier 4y ago|3 comments
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
They already aren't my institutions, they've been captured by pure corruption. Can that corruption be cleaned up any other way?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Is the only answer at this point just accelerationism? Is the fastest way to clean out our institutions just to run them into the ground?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Sure, I certainly feel the pinch every time I have to pay for things I purchased. I have student loans too. Is this article implying we should feel bad for the top 30% most educated Americans because they had the pay for the privilege?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
To be fair there are way more leftists who think trump is as bad as hitler as there are conservatives who believe in the Q stuff. Most conservatives don't even understand what Qanon even is other than a catchall for "conspiracy th
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
You don't need to replace all job to cause problems. If you replaced just 10% of human jobs very quickly, there'd be mass unrest. Probably just replace far fewer would be enough to cause a depression the likes of which we've
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
"Restricting the firehose of content driving mass upticks in childhood suicide rates, obesity, porn usage, and mental health issues - this is dangerous!".
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Obviously I'm not saying racism is justified or whatever. I'm just saying race is obviously real in some sense, even if it's fuzzy.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
That's my point: asian cultures very broad, but you still know exactly what I mean when I say asian culture. It exists in some sense. Science isn't the only determinant of what is real. Asian culture is real in its own sense, even
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
My point is that sex deeply influences gender. Gender expression and gender roles have a direct line to sex via chromosomes > hormones + body structure > how you behave and how you're treated. You can of course call yourself what
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It’s simple really: just look at animals. It’s very obvious all mammals are dual sex, no more no less. It’s a fact that there are only 2 sexes when it comes to mammals. They also have average behavior differences due to hormones and their s
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
This was a YC event that was for YC founders from the current batch only, not just random people who like YC.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
This was a YC event of other YC founders only (from the current batch). YC founders are overall very high trust of each other.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Everything is arbitrary at the end of the day. Where does "Asian culture" end and "European culture" begin? Does that mean there is no asian culture or culture at all? Clearly something is going on when you compare someo
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Why are human-like robots all the rage? Aren't there much better forms out there? I get that our society is built to be human adapted, but do we need robots to be exactly general purpose tools like people are? Can't we just have m
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
No of course not. Except there's not much push for that - so I don't feel the need to say anything against it. On the other hand: there is a push to legalize and promote prostitution, decriminalize hard drugs, normalize sexual con
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Sometimes restrictions are the best way to accelerate tech progress. How much would we learn if we gave everyone nukes to tinker with? Probably something. Is the worth the odds that we might destroy the world in the process and set back all

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