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@VitoComedy It’s called “The One Ring” - you really expect them to draw a second One?
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@scorpian7103 @sorrywrongjoe If that's how you view it. I don't consider it my moral imperative to rescue others from their choice to embrace unnecessary risk.
How often do you invest in speculative IPOs? What about MLMs like Herbalife? Did you purchase NFTs in the hype phase?
Those are blue buttons.
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@AFBear @sorrywrongjoe They aren’t JUST unwilling to kill themselves, they are also willing to kill others. For this to work as a problem the red people will need to actively do something that could cause the death of all who didn’t pick it (hence why I picked the gas pedal)
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@lporiginalg I wouldn't take a surgery with a 50% survival rate dude
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Redcels won't believe this, but some people make a distinction between "nothing" and "mass genocide."
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@lporiginalg @cremieuxrecueil Red is simply the nothing happens, all safe button.
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@scorpian7103 @sorrywrongjoe The active decision to not jump onto the tracks and pull the lever is the responsibility.
Would you rather they need to press a button to illustrate their unwillingness to jump in front of the train?
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@sorrywrongjoe You changed the problem by removing any responsibility from the reds. In the button problem reds are choosing to kill every blue voter, you can’t remove that part. A closer equivalence would be you are either trying to push the lever or are in the trolley pressing the gas.
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@MikeArchrr @PigLazer That dog was a nazi sympathizer and should be grateful that it was spared the death penalty for its heinous crimes.
If it wanted to be a social disruptor it should have grabbed a machete and come over from africa on a small, inflatable boat like everyone else.
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@PigLazer Didn't your government punish a Youtuber because of a joke he made with his dog?
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@hasanthehun Knowles is a person, not your dog. You can't just yell at him and send a ton of voltage through a collar to get him to be quiet.
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@WestonWarren14 @wadestotts She probably had a poor learing experience in school.
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@wadestotts Do you suggest Ilhan Omar has a PhD in History? Or is familiar with some argument in 'academia'? Maybe she can't read that good.
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"History PhD here--the number of World Wars is actually a *very* controversial topic in academia. Some say there have been two (traditional view), while others say up to sixty-four. Scholars disagree, and that's okay! What's NOT ok are these RACIST attacks on Rep Omar!"
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸@ImMeme0
Rep. Ilhan Omar: “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked… during World War ELEVEN.” She must have gotten her education in the Quality Learing Center.
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@JenSiebelNewsom I think your primary logical fallacy is where you argue that journalists deserve respect when the last 20 years have strongly proven otherwise.
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My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior.
But that is the problem. Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.
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@bottom422 @The40KEmpress I'd buy in if they had printed Gabs and Jayne.
Why else would they label both models with the same tag, different than the given models name?
Perhaps - just spitballing - because there was a firm delineation between those and the other marine models?
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@AFBear @The40KEmpress calling the OG femstartes SoBs is a revisionist argument, as SoB didnt exist at that point. Female Astartes were real, they vanished due to lack of interest from the fan base
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Simple Question: Should Female Custodes Exist? (And why)
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@bottom422 @The40KEmpress *Sisters of Battle
Femstartes is a psy-op bad faith argument made by ideologically captured individuals. The old metal cast models had the model names imprinted on the bottom tags; the ones in question (Gabs and Jayne) said 'Sister'.
We now know these SoBs as Sisters of battle.
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@The40KEmpress let the market eliminate them, just like the OG female space marines
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@RaggedFly @Impish_Bunny Pretty certain Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin didn't have an 'opt in' clause to their genocides...
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@Impish_Bunny If 1% of the world's population presses blue, that's 83 million people.
If red only gets 51% or 58%, could you really live with being super mecha Hitler?
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i actually think it’s immoral for anyone to press the blue button because you are forcing everyone else into a situation where they have to take on risk of death to protect you from your own decision
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@Tabletop_James @ThinkWiselyMatt This standard doesn't leverge immutable traits for determination as to how tragic a loss of life is, it uses individual choices.
It is far less tragic when someone dies from the known consequences of their actions than when someone dies from random happenstance.
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@AFBear @ThinkWiselyMatt Idk I'm just not in the business of weighing one life against another and I don't think anyone else has that right either. Humans are more complex than one trait so it's never a good idea to use one trait as a metric for anything
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@Tabletop_James @ThinkWiselyMatt Is it more of a tragedy if a person who has smoked two packs a day for 20 years, having begun the habit fully understanding and accepting the consequences, dies of lung cancer; or someone who just randomly developed lung cancer without impact from their choices dies from it?
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@AFBear @ThinkWiselyMatt Ok sure, you're right, but I don't think it meaningfully changes what I said
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@kevin_batt10 @ThinkWiselyMatt Save everyone on the condition that the blue voters are not allowed to make decisions impacting society again?
I accept your terms. Best case scenario for selecting blue.
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@ThinkWiselyMatt I don’t need to see who press what. You said there is a tie, which means I decide if everyone lives or 50% die. In this case I press blue on the condition that the other blue voters never vote again
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@Tabletop_James @ThinkWiselyMatt The Thanos snap was indiscriminate.
This scenario assumes that half the population willingly placed themselves on the guillotine.
These are not the same. If nothing else, those impacted will be ideologically aligned.
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@ThinkWiselyMatt If you know you can make blue win then this question becomes "would you do a Thanos snap if given the opportunity?" And I'm horrified to see a >10% yes vote on that
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@unnamedspacebee @G0ffThew The prompt is written correctly.
Choose red or blue.
Red - no chance of death, but if more than 50% choose red, all blues die.
Blue - 50/50 chance to die with the only upside that if >50% select blue then nobody dies.
It identifies those who suffer from suicidal empathy.
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The calculus to press red is, to put it kindly, short-sighted idiot math. It begins and ends with “what input gives me the best odds of living” with no regard for what the world you’d be living in - where everyone you can trust is dead and everyone else knows it - would look like
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@isnit0 red promises your survival. the logical AND moral solution is to pick red, and convince everyone else to do the same. everyone still lives. except those who still picked blue despite red being the not brain dead option.
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Guys blue is obviously more moral.
Sure, red is logical.
But blue is more moral.
Anyone who thinks in 2nd order effects should advocate for blue.
Just like the people who created our high trust societies would.
Red voters destroy our society.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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