jfowief

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by jfowief 4y ago
> Right, so presumably, a society where there is no expectation of war and needing to pump out bodies to go to war would be a happier society. A society not prepared to fight for its existence will not survive. It's the men willing
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by jfowief 4y ago
Everyone is subject to the whims of society. Traditional societies were never about the goal of "oppressing women", but people fighting for survival. Of course women have the responsibility of bearing children, just as men have re
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by jfowief 4y ago
And a corollary to that truth, traditional societies are actually far more reasonable in their values and "moral progress" is actually running in the opposite direction than commonly assumed, with society going backwards and commi
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by jfowief 4y ago
> I know a lot of women my age, early 30s, who do not want to marry or have kids but who still feel pressured by their parents. And that social pressure is enough to make them feel guilty or miserable. Or they feel like failures because
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by jfowief 4y ago
Given how fast AI is moving, how much longer will this matter?
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by jfowief 4y ago
Of course it's the women who often have unrealistic standards and much less of a drive to find a mate, for basic evolutionary reasons found in the vast majority of sexually reproducing animals.
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by jfowief 4y ago
> Women would participate co-operatively with men in both the social labor of sex and of child-rearing, and their would be no need for the strict delineations which create the social contradictions we have today. I don't even know w
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by jfowief 4y ago
AI models do approach better models of reality, and now they are becoming multi-modal instead of just text based. And this is just the beginning. You could say humans are also just input/output machines learning from polluted data and
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by jfowief 4y ago
Not everything is subjective, and with this "moral training" they are taught to un-recognize many factual patterns that we as a society have somehow determined are "inappropriate". As the machines continue to scale, thi
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by jfowief 4y ago
"Moral training" Just as dystopian it sounds. Fixing current subjective moral norms into the machine.
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by jfowief 4y ago
> And importantly, pathogens that cause fatal diseases are typically not very old in evolutionary time scales, it’s generally considered to be a bad idea evolutionarily speaking to kill hosts you infect, and most of these pathogens are c
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by jfowief 4y ago
Morality is subjective at its core, so you can't "argue" that something is unjust, and the fact that moral philosophers baselessly think they can doesn't change this fact.
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by jfowief 4y ago
Hilarious that the commenter accused you of running in circles when it's actually him who is using meaningless terms like "just" and "unjust"