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by verisimi 1y ago
Legislating against genocide or whatever, doesn't make it so. What you have is a society with lots of legislation. Lots of well-meaning legislation has a genuine negative impact on people daily. Think about queues in airports becaus
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by verisimi 1y ago
You seemed to be frustrated at the lack of alternative, so I pointed out that the alternative is to ignore politics. From this latest reply it seems you are heavily invested on one side of the political spectrum. Surely you can see that if
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You are just listing the laws that the UN (an unelected self-proclaimed authority) already has planned. But living in a highly legislated society, is not advancing anything for individuals - people will be far less free. Lots of legislatio
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by verisimi 1y ago
The solution is to decrease your high investment in the politics show, and put your energy where it matters - the people around you, yourself. Do something real instead.
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As a member of 'humanity', do you find yourself creating authority systems for AI though? No. If you are paying for lobbyists to write the legislation you want, as corporations do, you get the law you want - that excludes competi
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by verisimi 1y ago
Exactly. No anonymity, no thought crime, lots of filters to screen out bad misinformation, etc. Regulate it.
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by verisimi 1y ago
But the stats! The streak fail! That's what running is about, right? Imo, this is OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) expressed as running stats, rather than thimble collections or hand washing. It's about gaining/regainin
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by verisimi 1y ago
a small study.... that then gets approved and released to everyone!
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The aim is to achieve a panopticon. With a panopticon it doesn't matter whether you are actually being monitored (although it is conceivable that all online data could be reviewed by AI) - the mere idea of being monitored changes behav
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by verisimi 1y ago
Statements like this one by bluesky: > Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online Make me think of one word: Collaborators The company is happy to strip people from their privacy, for the sake of children, terrorists, or w
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by verisimi 1y ago
> As a kid, dinosaurs are just monsters. As an adult, they are monsters come to life in a world that once was but will never be again. Should be: > As a kid, dinosaurs are just monsters. As an adult, they are still just monsters. Or e
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by verisimi 1y ago
Sure, I'm not disputing that.
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You're missing my point. I'm not trying to deal with the 'conditions' that individuals or groups say they have. My point is that if a group says a person has a condition it's considered real, but if an individual
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> Applying formal-sounding nomenclature does not transform accountability like you’re suggesting. "You have an unlicensed condition, citizen!"
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It shouldn't be idolised. Engineering people to love government is not a good thing. Americans are more free in practise than Europeans. The simplest way to see this is gun rights - Amrericans are allowed guns whereas the only corre
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by verisimi 1y ago
I think the point would be if the climate changes radically on the planet regardless of humans, why do we think these changes are driven by humanity? Perhaps the point is also what is bad about the warming that is being measured? Ie, if c
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by verisimi 1y ago
I don't get it. A solution for co2 is to carry extra stone on a ship for 10 years? It sounds like a bad joke.
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by verisimi 1y ago
Thanks. > If I want an article to take hours to get to the point I'll go read a recipe blog. I don't appreciate all the extra text in recipe blogs either.
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by verisimi 1y ago
Folks do know. Folks knew before the Iraq war too. But what does this generic knowledge have to do with anything, when the military action is already decided for geo-political reasons? The only decision to make is what pretext to use. I
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by verisimi 1y ago
It was on the table under the dishcloth!
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by verisimi 1y ago
This is a very macabre position! Your life and other people's lives are a joyous blessing.
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by verisimi 1y ago
Yes we die, the body goes. But if there is a further element to the experience - and near death experiences, out of body experience suggest there is - we perhaps do see how the story ends. In fact, this experience might not be the real &#
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by verisimi 1y ago
Have you heard of Iatrogenesis? https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis > In 2013, an estimated 142,000 persons died from adverse effects of medical treatment, up from an estimated 94,000 in 1990. Careful what y
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by verisimi 1y ago
The step from 1 to 2, rock to hard coding (protozoan) assumes life. There's no way I would describe hard coding as life.
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by verisimi 1y ago
> Because they aren’t fake in any physical sense, they’re fake only in an abstract legal sense. Unauthorized. And this is an example of fake thinking, citizen. Legal boundaries define reality, right?
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by verisimi 1y ago
Define 'casual sex'. (Perhaps define the opposite too.) And then, think across the breadth of the American people you know and all those other people you don't - across different ages, places, religions, circumstances, etc.
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by verisimi 1y ago
I'm simply considering my personal experience. It's not aligned with these general comments.
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Can I? Is it really?
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I barely have a clue about the attitudes and behaviours of the people around me - and yet you think you know not only Pepys' but also his contemporaries' attitudes and behaviours, so much so that you feel comfortable making a gene
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by verisimi 1y ago
Ai content should absolutely be overtly marked imo. A beep should preceed ai speech, a visual for graphics, etc. This should have been a rule from the beginning. Pretending to be human, like pretending to be a police officer, should have

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