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Short digression, finally got me a decent phone, but still learning tweaks like how to stop it from feeding audible alerts to me, especially during sleeping hours, like when I accidentally set the sleep time for podcasts to 75 hours instead of 75 minutes, and so I’m alerted and wake up in the middle of a loooong Joe Rogan and Sam Harris discussion…[Read more]

I lean toward A’s self-defense, also thinking longer term wrt considering how B might treat the rest of the world after defeating A. Meanwhile, for scenarios like this and lesser dire, I’m in favor of designing weapons that aren’t so indiscriminant, and are more precise in their targeting. I include AI/drone weapons in this category, for as long…[Read more]

I’ll think y’all are expecting AI to have drives or motives, which it may indeed be said to have someday. But before that day comes, I’ll say again, I feel increasingly certain that powerful AI will be designed and owned by humans that implant their own drives and motives into it. If and when AI goes rogue, as it were, it will most likely be…[Read more]

AI that exceeds human intelligence will happen. The only question in my mind is who’s interests will it serve? An aggressive nation-state that designs and owns it? An oligarchy? Technocracy? Its cadre of inventors? Glossy-eyed programmer idealists with their own plan for the future?

From the very first paragraph that describes the video on the youtube page Unseen linked to:

A disgusting TEDx Talk trying to normalize pedophilia by declaring that “pedophilia is a natural sexual orientation, just like heterosexuality”.

In fact “normalize” is used deridingly in the (youtubed) TEDx Talk title itself. Note the ignorance shown even…[Read more]

Thinking of a larger context, from (say) a biological systems perspective. Long term, ecosystems survive longest when they evolve to survive in the long term. Almost a tautology, but really, think of the algae bloom that sometimes pops up and grows uncontrollably, sucking up all the oxygen from the water and leaving behind toxins. It’s often…[Read more]

Yeah, this is a Christian Nation entitlism thing; oppression from the majority; and righteous support of capital punishment. I think of these traditions as comparable to Sharia Law. US Armed Forces provide a wider choice of religious services and support, which I haven’t thought enough about, so I don’t feel informed enough to comment.

Good topic.

Calling a dog a  “house n*gg*r” most often results in a wet, slimy face licking.

Perhaps an internet overflowing with supposed “avant-garde” content and circulation pretty much dilutes any specialness it could have had.

However, I don’t see why it couldn’t exist in (say) museums, and other privatized and/or elite venues. After all, upper classes in our civilizations have enriched the possibilities of leisure activity, at lea…[Read more]