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intimidated
3y ago
> Safety teams within the company pushed to slow things down. These teams worked to refine ChatGPT to refuse certain types of abusive requests and to respond to other queries with more appropriate answers. I wonder what this struggle mea
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3y ago
> Going further, the researchers removed visual neurons from the box jellyfish and studied them in a dish. The cells were shown striped images while receiving a small electrical pulse to represent collision. Within about five minutes, t
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intimidated
3y ago
This sounds strategically sound until the realization that you've given very compelling justification—legal or not, it doesn't really matter—for others to now commit preemptive violence against people like you.
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intimidated
3y ago
Great, insightful reply. Thank you. > But free loader molecules that could infiltrate a metabolism and contribute nothing, but use it only for their own self-replication would also thrive. Could you please explain the "mechanical&qu
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3y ago
You might not agree with the spirit of this an endeavor, but I have a yes/no question for you: If you were to wear your most clever, most creative writing cap, could you make a convincing case entirely contrary to your beliefs? I'
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intimidated
3y ago
> One, when non-white, non-men raised the alarm about LLMs previously, they got much less media coverage than Hinton, et al, are getting. Mainstream (e,g. CNN, BBC) and mainstream-adjacent (e.g. Vice, Vox) journalists have spent years pu
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3y ago
I am extremely not Mormon, but we don't have any reason to believe Mormons are more likely to be sexual abusers than Jews, Muslims, or Hindus. It's probably more politically safe to claim Mormons are more likely to be sexual abu
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4y ago
> "Deterrence" has generally been found to be a pretty well-rooted myth. I'm interested in learning more. Do you have some good resources you could point me to?
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intimidated
4y ago
Countless districts have a de-facto ban on fascist books—and all of their books about racial politics likely lean the same ideological direction. I don't see how this is any different.
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intimidated
4y ago
> But a computer owner should be able to decide what goes on on their computer (even google or Facebook). How do you feel about the Civil Rights Act?
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intimidated
4y ago
That's a keen insight about books. Thank you.
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intimidated
4y ago
I could very well be wrong, but I don't think this is quite accurate: > Black people were locked into specific neighborhoods, and were generally not allowed to own their homes and instead locked into rapacious "contracts"
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4y ago
As you were writing your reply, I edited my post. Media in India have indeed taken a right turn the past decade, veering steadily away from their western counterparts. I initially included the word "media" because, just like most
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4y ago
Sridhar Vembu is an incredibly thoughtful man. His support of RSS should give you pause—either Sridhar Vembu is a monster, or RSS isn't as monstrous as its opposition insists.
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4y ago
Which is more likely: 1. These censorship policies will be used to save the world from 99% certain destruction at the hands of a maniac. 2. These censorship policies will be used to crush evidence that [GROUP X] is overrepresented in [FAVOR
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4y ago
> You're posting an article which is about Richard Spencer being a white supremacist, and which explicitly calls him such in the article's byline Yes. I figured you'd trust an article written by someone who largely agrees
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4y ago
Rather than trusting the editors of Wikipedia—who we often admit in other contexts to be highly ideological—seek out his full statements instead. Richard Spencer has repeatedly, specifically denounced the enslavement of Black people. Here&#
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4y ago
I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway. Could you share the transcript?
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4y ago
His Twitter thread was written to justify public violence against this man: https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer
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4y ago
Yonatan, Yonatan. He's the world's most effective Nazi recruiter. I wish he'd stop. Here, and elsewhere, he openly calls for violence against "Nazis". That's a label he has habitually misapplied to a variety of
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4y ago
Then "You are evil unless you stop having sex with men." should pass the sniff test.
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4y ago
How about this: "I hate evil people. You are evil unless you pay me reparations." Should the state jail someone for saying that?
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The word "abominable" is dehumanizing? What about "loathsome", "detestable", "disgusting"? > Fuck that pastor and may he rot in prison. Your eagerness to use state violence against innocent folks—