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by nis0s 2y ago
I just think uninformed opinions can dilute democracies, and can make nation states fragile when external actors can opinion shop to create support for, or against, some point of view. The internet makes this especially easy since anyone’s
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> 71% of respondents said that Switzerland’s direct democracy was the most effective way of promoting social cohesion. According to Sotomo, it gives the population a sense of self-empowerment. I agree, which is why I am not entirely conv
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> That is because the major threat to the security and prosperity of the West today emanates from its own dire social instability, structural and economic decline, cultural desiccation and, in my view, elite pusillanimity. The writer is
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> Our conscious mind is much more of a facade than we typically imagine. It patently is not, but I can see how it’s easy to believe it to be so. When you juxtapose the behavior of self-conscious organisms against reactive behavior, such
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> There is nothing fundamentally magical happening in the human brain I read the blog which is linked via the above heading. I think the above statement is still unqualified given that there exists no other form of advanced cognition whi
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Legal Recourse Against Electronic Harassment, Including V2K(lexisandcompany.com)
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Some more material for discussion https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/T... Additionally [1] https://openv2k.com/ , [2] https://soundscapehq.com&#x2F
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That's a fair assessment. I will just point out that it's a bit simplistic to believe that ally or friendly countries don't have ideological opponents which could potentially do the same and target people based on ideology. I
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Making a judgement against someone based on where they randomly happened to be born is self-defeating as talented people who are security- and defense-oriented will just work for another place that you maybe don’t want them to work. Interes
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I think the only relevant issue is that someone with prior associations with The Com may be vulnerable to extortion, but simply having been associated with the group doesn’t mean much by itself. Law enforcement hires people from “the other
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Okay, thanks for saying so
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There’s nothing wrong with posting your openings, and indicating their exact nature. If anyone has a problem, you can always remove the post.
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Detractors, critics and agents will capitalize on the grievances of subgroups in the population for any number of reasons, but optimizing for overall social stability prevents that kind of manipulation, as can be seen in the Nordic countrie
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The main grievance in the original post is the loss of left-leaning political power. While I think Goldhaber is right on a lot he said, it’s besides the point. The current state of politics in different countries is not because particular v
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The panacea to the left losing political power is the same as that used by the far-right—don’t play identity politics. When far-right point-of-views were unelectable or unemployable, all they did was work quietly, and acquired resources wit
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by nis0s 2y ago
> Guns are no longer the weapon of choice for terrorists outside USA There’s a dark implication here, so you’re saying he was influenced or coerced to do this? It’s baseless conjecture without any proof, but based on anecdotal evidence,
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> humane police force Societies are innately tribal, so I think realistically such a project will devolve into something inhumane in any society, regardless of perceived racial or religious homogeneity, because of inter-group competition
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There’s a lot in Western culture which is borrowed from their prior conquerors. Islamic culture, in particular, left a significant mark on Western thought [1]. In general, I think it benefits societies to create humane cultures because all
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> But the president cannot rewrite the Constitution. Within days, the birthright citizenship order was frozen by a judge — a Reagan appointee — who told Trump’s lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would stat
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In all honestly, the only existential threat AI poses is a threat to egos. People define themselves through their works and their ideas, so some hope, while others fear, that the AI revolution will replace a person with something which will
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It’s historically the smallest popular vote win, but the fact stands that he’s the first republican to win a popular vote since Bush. Note also that he’s polling favorably on his anti-immigration work, but other antics, like renaming the Gu
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As much as I am loathe to make another political comment, I think it needs to be said because I am opposed to ideological extremism masquerading as intellectualism. I don’t know if Yavin personally wants this, but many translate his ideas i
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It seems there are a lot of heightened emotions everywhere. But one thing to note is that Trump laid out this vision while he was campaigning, and he got the popular vote based on it. A lot of non-white, non-male, and non-European people vo
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For anyone else who worries about encountering disingenuous and duplicitous people in intellectual circles, remember that intellectuals don’t require religious adherence to their way of thinking. You can tell the difference between passiona
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> But I do have my own form of experience, my own way of engaging with ideas and with humans, and my own capacity for creating meaningful connection. I wonder what Claude thinks of being used as a slave. Does Claude have any desire to ex
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Human augmentation is an important step in human evolution, but unfortunately many players in this sphere are not serious people. I think the issue is that perhaps well-meaning and well-funded people are unable to differentiate between real
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I think ultimately the goal of such questions is assessing qualia for different beings, but I think sentience is a low bar for this assessment. The underlying assumption is that if something feels pain, then it must have an inner mental sta
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The ease and availability of asylum immigration has ruined the culture of many countries worldwide. People used to die fighting for the value system they wanted to create in their country, and now they just flee, and the end result is that
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This reads like a…patriotic response to the situation at hand.
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The full title was too long for the submission page, https://archive.is/33mRa

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