metalcrow

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by metalcrow 10mo ago
In that case, I'm afraid many people, myself included, would not be describable as "general intelligences"!
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by metalcrow 10mo ago
it prevented future killings from this individual, though. And i don't think thing it's sensible to blame them for failing to catch the killer alive.
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by metalcrow 10mo ago
But later on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge_standoff happened. It didn't end that well for Randy Weaver, but he did get to kill a US Marshal without jail time, and they are not happy to try that again.
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by metalcrow 10mo ago
If the fascists do outnumber you and like minded people who disagree with them, then sadly your views are just the minority, and there's nothing to do besides leave the country. But that is a strong claim, it requires that >50% of A
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by metalcrow 10mo ago
Buy a gun, and learn how to use it. This is good advice even if you don't believe it's necessary.
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
> How can the extrajudicial killings of (over 80 by now!) alleged drug traffickers without any charges or trials be justified or accepted? These are, in fact, crimes against humanity. It's _been_ accepted for years, if not decades n
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
Sadly, if he has any sort of money to fight this in court, it's likely he would not be in jail, or at minimum out on bail. The duel nature of the US justice system, where if you have no money you have no rights, are a horrible tragedy
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
i think excess and constant negativity around world news actually does prevent problems from being solved.
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
> the idea of an entire "experiencer" is an extrapolation and fabrication Ok, makes sense. > look closely at what's actually going on, there is "consciousness" of the components of the aggregate Interesting. I
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
If it's eugenics to choose, without coercion, certain traits for your child, then eugenics as a term is meaningless. Am i participating in eugenics when i don't have children with my sister? Am i doing eugenics when i take a test
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
As a very beginner practicer i've come to that conclusion myself, but how can the two be separate? If there is no self (or at least, there is a self but it exists in the same way that a nation or corporation "exists"), how ca
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by metalcrow 11mo ago
A lot of these EA comments seem to be using their own definition of EA that they've imagined. It really sounds a lot like people judging Judaism because of what Bernie Madoff did.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Your citation doesn't support your claim
134.
by metalcrow 1y ago
it is, yes. however, it's considered an acceptable bullet to bite in the United States's set of values, considering the alternative is the government gets to decide what speech to allow, or decide what a "lie" is.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
"Republicans consistently do things like censor government agencies and attempt to alter history. Democrats do not.". You literally made that exact claim.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
There was just last month a huge court case involving the YouTube being pressured during the Biden administration to remove COVID "misinformation" which turned out to be true. I don't think this is as cut and try and you want
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Fair, yeah. There's a few concrete points: the ai generated header image is a start, but "I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum—a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot promising effortless cleaning and in
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by metalcrow 1y ago
This also really looks like a chat GPT written article. Lot of keywords and specific phrases to that effect. It might be totally made up
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Given that the output describes the function as being done "with extraordinary caution, because you never know what can go wrong", i would guess that the undisclosed prompt was something similar to "generate a division functi
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by metalcrow 1y ago
most people don't really go to the ER willingly really. In situations where there is an emergency i'm unsure what the alternative is.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
I think Germany has not succumbed less because of the laws around speech, and more because of other reasons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_German_coup_d'%C3%A9tat... was a very recent example of a direct at
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Thank you! That's useful. And yeah i agree, this and the aducanumab scandal make it seem the FDA is going away from "too strict" back to "too loose".
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Can you link to the study? The release implies there are multiple but doesn't link to any
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by metalcrow 1y ago
it is arbitrary yes, but the point of democracy is to allow society to codify these subjective questions into rigid laws. I mean, what is the arbitrary line between tough love and child abuse? We have to decide somewhere, and we use democra
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by metalcrow 1y ago
what do you do if both sides actively hate you? voting for the lesser of the two evils seems to just guarantee evil forever, and they have no reason to listen to you if they know you'll always vote for them.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
This bill is obviously unethical, and furthermore appears to be illegal under the supreme court ruling Kent v. Dulles, which establishes the right to international travel (and thus a passport) a liberty that cannot be deprived without due p
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Tbh, I imagine it's more the taste failure then anything. I'm an avid impossible burger eater and beyond meat beef tastes not good at all. Impossible is actually somewhere in the ballpark
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by metalcrow 1y ago
This statement proves too much. It's a fully generalized argument against participation in any kind of boycott.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Eventually, maybe. But how fast will they get banned compared to how fast you can get drivers signed? Iirc it's not even that expensive to sign up to get your driver signed, around a few hundred dollars.
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by metalcrow 1y ago
Fair, but what about software drivers? It's easy to make up some fake explanation for those to exist, since they don't need hardware backing.

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