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by xdennis 3y ago
> For most people it is a very important part of ethics. Most people would consider it unethical to boil alive a being with a sense of self and the ability to feel pain I disagree. I think that many people who attribute consciousness to
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I'm surprised you find us weird. I always thought of muteminds as psychos. For example, if you spend a day alone, do you just wallow in silent nothingness? Or do you talk to yourself aloud because you can't do so silently?
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This has parallels to Roe v Wade in the US. The 14th amendment states that: [...] nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. which is interpreted as guaranteeing a "right
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It's quite funny to have so many laws around dogs, considering that eating dogs in legal in Switzerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Current_laws .
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> The one dollar goes to profit, the $20 is paid by society, for the most part (since they are also statistically uninsured). This is why socialized medicine is a bad idea. You get "free" medicine in exchange for society dictat
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Just because you're afraid of woodworking doesn't mean you should kill it for everyone. If this passes only professionals will be able to continue, which presumably is what the lobbyists want. It's no different to Apple insis
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When the government mandates it there's no reason not to increase the price, just like how college tuitions rose exponentially when the government guaranteed the loans.
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> Sawstop already offered their key patent for free They didn't offer the patent, the offered to offer. It's no different to when billionaires pledge to donate billions, yet year after year they're still on the Forbes top
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> Moreover, they said during the hearing that they'd offer permissive public licensing to their remaining patents should this rule be made effective. It sounds incredibly naive to think this will happen. If they haven't done it
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Why do you blame Americans? From my personal point of view, we Europeans are much more supportive of Israel. The streets in western Europe are misleading because western Europe is full of Muslim immigrants and champagne socialists.
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If you define genocide as collateral damage every defensive war would be classified as genocide. The Allies killed 65000 French civilians when liberating France from the Nazis. Are Americans guilty of genocide for liberating France?
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That's a valid point, but a terrible example because AI cars are legal in many places.
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I don't know about kill lists, but AI weapons kinda make sense. No weapons are nice, but if the good guys don't develop AI weapons, the bad guys will. From what I gather, many US engineers are morally opposed to them. But if China
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Yes, but it's slower. Here are the times for running a script that just prints hello. $ time bun hello.ts real 0m0.015s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.008s $ time ts-node hello.ts real 0m0.727s user 0m1.53
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> when the transition has largely already happened No it hasn't. Run `git init; git status` and see what the branch name is.
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Nothing works that way. Any politician could dodge criticism by saying "I don't myself depicted in that particular way".
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She's capable of making her own decisions now, but not when, for many years, she thought it was harmless? It's weird that papers are banned based on which sample images they pick, rather than technical merits. When will the HeLa c
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You're changing the subject. He was responding to the claim that it's "just kids dancing and other innocuous videos" not about viewpoint protection.
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It's not the information that's banned, it's TikTok. People don't seek to ban TikTok because they fear the content, they fear the power that an enemy nation has over their citizens. It's not a free speech issue. Ima
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> I think the primary argument for banning TikTok should be based on reciprocity rather than moral and/or security concerns. The argument that CCP people make is that Facebook et al aren't banned, they just need to follow the l
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In Romania, we let our Ukrainian neighbors take refuge with us. Why won't Arabs allow Palestinian refugees in, so that Israel can pursue Hamas without collateral deaths?
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> How about we just stop giving Israel more bombs until they agree to let aid in the normal way How about Israel lets no aid in until Hamas lets aid and doctors in for the hostages? They won't even say which victims are still alive.
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The left and the right live in completely separate bubbles. You may not be aware of this story, but the right is. See https://www.faa.gov/pwdp . The Federal Aviation Administration has set a target of hiring people with &qu
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I'm pro NATO, but I don't think the support of the US is guaranteed. The US has always been an unreliable partner: it depends on who's in power. If the republican war hawks or moderate Democrats are in power they would suppor
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Fair enough, but he's been in power for 18 years (1998-2002, 2010-present). He couldn't do that without widespread and lasting support.
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In a "free" market why would a Bulgarian be forced to operate only near Bulgaria? As an example, all food in Romania is from the Netherlands or other foreign countries. But you don't see the EU imposing regulations to make fo
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Microsoft is the only cloud provider with a spending limit. One choice is not competition. That's why regulation is needed.
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You seriously can't tell who's worse: Hitler or Musk? Apparently ChatGPT is more human than you because it answers clearly: > Adolf Hitler had a far more negative impact on society. [...]
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"Virtually impossible"... You're saying that like there's no alternative to Gemini. This is what ChatGPT says: > Adolf Hitler had a far more negative impact on society. His actions led to World War II and the Holocaus
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> This is pretty much the backlash everyone said Google would be getting if their model isn't literally perfect on release, no? No. All of the biases are deliberate and one sided. It's not them not being "literally perfect

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