@TheEmohawk @walterkirn Horseshoe theory of atheism
Newbie atheist thinks church is stupid - thoughtful well aged atheist sees the value of the community in the church.
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@walterkirn I'm a non-believer that believes in believing...
I know many believers, and genuinely envy that they do... They avoided a lot of futile battles with life that I threw myself at. I'm too proud of what I am now to lie about believing. So I can only appreciate it from afar.
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Non-believers don't believe that believers really believe.
It harms their understanding of the world.
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@central838 @NACHOS2D_ Of course it is, AI captured superhero movies perfectly
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@NACHOS2D_ this is so fucking ass. enjoy watching ur slop alone
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Tomorrow I’m doing the world’s most powerful entheogen. It obliterates the self and enables raw, full-spectrum consciousnesses. What I imagine the singularity will feel like. This is a longevity experiment + exploring the future of a deeply interwoven human+AI reality.
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@NickSzabo4 @gilbo89 Energy needs due to AI ramping up could somehow be a factor?
Or it presents good vulnerabilities etc
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@gilbo89 Perhaps they didn't want to give Malaysia, Indonesia, Morocco, etc. any ideas about their straits. Or perhaps just out of the general habit of secrecy.
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A conjecture:
Perhaps the U.S. and Israel started this war pre-emptively after all.
Not because of the obviously phony nuclear story.
Because of Hormuz.
Gold's price typically reflects not just major financial risks, but major geopolitical risks such as war. So why did gold rise in the year *before* the war, instead of *during* the war? Why is it falling now while the war is still going on?
Who was buying the gold, driving its price up? China.
Who, according to my conjecture, was planning a war to take control of Hormuz and use that control to establish a petroyuan? Iran and China.
Per the conjecture. the U.S. and Israel figured out what Iran and China were planning and tried to preempt it by violently changing the regime in Iran. They failed, triggering the planned establishment of control at Hormuz and the petroyuan.
If the conjecture is wrong, then Iran was following its history of conservative use of its own military, it did not believe it should act on its theory (borne out of the experiences of Ukraine in the Black Sea and the Houthis at Bab-Al-Mandeb) that it could sieze control of Hornuz, the war was started out of sheer Zionist fanaticism, and necessity has caused Iran to seize Hormuz and bring in China as a partner.
Just a bit of late-night musing.
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@NickSzabo4 this just proves that being knowledgeable in one area does not make you knowledgeable in others.
your phrasing of "Zionist fanaticism" proves you know nothing about what actually is happening.
its a made up thing by antisemites.
its like me educating you on smart contracts
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@liron @SteveStricklan6 @ggreenwald @robertwrighter Iran didn't target civilians. It only appears that way because unfortunately the Zionists are using human shields.
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@SteveStricklan6 @ggreenwald @robertwrighter In my poll the majority are agreeing with my central claim.
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The fucking audacity these people have.
They spend years vaporizing innocent people that they regard as sub-human, incinerating and starving entire families, starting wars, and then think the world will see them as pity-inducing victims the minute anyone fights back.
Hen Mazzig@HenMazzig
UPDATE: A 10-year-old boy is in moderate condition among the 20 people injured in Dimona following the latest missile attack by the Iranian regime. Tehran regime is deliberately targeting civilians, including children.
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@ParzivalsEgg @LKrauss1 What's the purpose? Can you explain it real quick?
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@LKrauss1 Failure to understand life's existential purpose isn't evidence that none exists. The opening chapters of Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" make it very clear what the purpose of a human life is. If you want to be your own god by becoming the last man - that's on you.
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Some people took my description today to represent nihilism and despair. It was not meant to. The absurdity is Camus' absurdity, and while there is no existential purpose, we make our own as we push our own boulders. Like Camus, I imagine Sisyphus is smiling...
Lawrence M. Krauss@LKrauss1
I view life as an essentially purposeless absurd comedy that every now and then rises to the level of tragedy. I have to keep reminding myself of this on days like today when I took it all too seriously and felt devastated by reality for a few hours.
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@CapturingChrist @LKrauss1 What’s the over/under on how long you can discuss your view of the world before “faith” enters the equation?
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I view life as an essentially purposeless absurd comedy that every now and then rises to the level of tragedy. I have to keep reminding myself of this on days like today when I took it all too seriously and felt devastated by reality for a few hours.
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@Staywarm305 @ggreenwald @hockeyfaninnc On average, I have nearly twice as many as you people since I am also counting hockeyfan
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@CameronRuggles @ggreenwald @hockeyfaninnc yeah you have so many more followers than i do, have a great weekend...
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@ggreenwald @hockeyfaninnc @Staywarm305 Damn Glenn, if you're replying to these people (naive take, minimal followers) I can probably get a reply too!
Unrelated topic, but do you have any thoughts on how cypherpunk/crypto anarchism related ideology might become more viable and influential?
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@hockeyfaninnc @Staywarm305 Huge oil prices don't benefit IRan if they can't sell their oil. What benefits Iran is having sanctions lifted - that's what they wanted in negotiations.
The Trump admin just gave it them because they're petrified of the political effects of this war.
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@GENIC0N Wrong the world ends all the time. A new one just replaces it.
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everyone has a different well thought out reason they believe the world is ending.
none of them are true.
if you believe the world is ending, you are wrong.
the world won't end for billions of years.
doesn't matter what you believe.
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@kanzure @RokoMijic However there is likely an approach that reduces risk of death maximally - building agentic ASI is NOT that.
Focusing all AI efforts onto just being the best biologist and chemist probably does a better job at it.
Not that it is reasonably something we can control.
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AI Risk is really a misframing
Imagine you're on a sinking ship and someone says you shouldn't get in the lifeboat because of "small boat risk".
The risk is the risk that you die, not that you die specifically because you're on a small boat.
Without AI, we are probably all going to die. And our cultures and extended families are also going to die, but for a different reason (politics/war/migration/low fertility).
I already feel that the world I was most comfortable in has died; my friends and family are mostly gone. My country stopped existing between 2007 and 2022. The ship has nearly sunk already.
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@RokoMijic youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?si…
AI solves the problem of us all dying separately making us all suffer both from are own aging and the struggle and loss of our friends and family.
It'll take us all out nearly all at once.
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I suspect that in order to prompt major regulation, an AI agent will have to do something that kills a bunch of people.
That's bad. I wish we could regulate things BEFORE they prove they're dangerous, but we just can't. We never do.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Agents are dangerous in a way chatbots simply are not. But there won't be any regulation of agents until some serious incident occurs.
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@chuck_northup @BrianPrescott48 Right like how stupid is this if I have to buy it anyway lol
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@BrianPrescott48 The Big Pharma phrase is a bigger scam than big pharma is
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Big Pharma wants you dependent on synthetic testosterone for life.
Meanwhile, a powerful botanical that helps your body restore its own testosterone production has been ignored.
It’s called Fadogia Agrestis. Here’s how it helps men:
1. Big Pharma pro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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@BTCBreadMan If the banking system collapses you'd obviously lose your job so the risk is equal to the risk of the banking system collapsing
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@BTCBreadMan Paying more on the mortgage is stupid right? It doesn't secure you any better if you lose your job etc tomorrow and cant make future payments. Better to pay the minimum amount while saving other elsewhere then when you can pay it all off.
Financially illiterate too tho
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My best friend is 37 years old.
He has a 15 year mortgage and pays extra every month to pay down the loan faster.
He thinks that he is better off paying less interest long term.
How can I gently explain to him that he is financially illiterate and is making a huge mistake?
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