@NobletStrength (In general I agree with you that if Americans were into football they'd produce world class players given the large pool of potential football players in the US)
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Kirbmarc
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Kirbmarc
@kirbmarc
Just a guy on Twitter with some opinions. No gods, no heroes, no saints - just us flawed human beings.
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@NobletStrength Just to play the devil's advocate: cultural buy in may not be the only factor, since football is still VERY popular in Italy but the Italian football team hasn't managed to qualify for a world cup since 2014.
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I'm seriously curious what the real argument is that if soccer had the cultural buy in of American football why we wouldn't produce world class players? Explain it to me, so I can Steel Man it.
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I predict there will still be stupid complaints.
Nolan Archives@NolanAnalyst
Elliot Page is expected to play Elpenor, the youngest crew member on Odysseus’ ship in THE ODYSSEY, not Achilles.
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On earth, there is 1 atmosphere of pressure
In space, there is 0 atmospheres of pressure
On the bottom of the ocean, there are up to 1,100 atmospheres of pressure
Building a vessel that can safely protect humans for deep sea diving is *harder*
B Flat@did8hurtu
And people think we went to the moon 😒
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A lot of the stuff the Nazis were doing was funded via unsustainable deficit spending and the economy was beginning to falter by the late '30s. They actually had to move up the planned invasion of Poland to infuse the German economy with war plunder.
Tatsuya Ishida@TatsuyaIshida9
Re-imagining Villains 140
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@discordspies @Targ_Nation Slapping the Night King instead of letting Arya killing him is the funniest bit!
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@Targ_Nation the funniest part is because the AI models are sanitised he can't show him actually killing the bad guys he can only impotently slap them
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i do consider myself superior to people who find enjoyment in dumb shit like this
Rishabh@Rixhabh__
This guy used AI to put himself in Game of Thrones and fix everything
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@ArthurCDent I think that one of the smartest ways to use AI is to write formal emails - a tedious job that can be easily automated since formal emails are very similar to one another.
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Properly conditioned and contextualised AI writing is good, actually
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If you come to believe that the Other Side is a clear and present danger, that they're about to act against you, or even that they're already acting against you in explicit or subtle ways it's actually relatively easy to justify acting first and killing Them before they hurt You.
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"Atrocities against their groups committed elsewhere radicalises them"
This is a VERY important point - atrocities or fear of future atrocities from the Other Side are fuel for radicalization.
We're all very easily scared naked apes.
christoph@Halalcoholism
There’s a really good move called Earth about a group of friends of several different faiths who are caught up in the Partition and gradually turn on each other. Atrocities against their groups committed elsewhere radicalises them, and small personal rivalries become something more sinister.
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The psychology of genocide perpetrators is a subject that morbidly fascinates me. What exactly turns regular people into mass murderers or passive accomplices to mass murder?
I think that part of the reason why ordinary people turn into monsters is that they feel threatened. 1/
Carl@HistoryBoomer
I teach a class on genocide. Studying genocide, you learn that evil deeds are committed by regular people, and that regular people contain monsters. Thinking "people like me would never do that" is dangerous. From "An Ordinary Man," on the Rwanda genocide:
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It's indeed very interesting how many right-wing influencers say that "liberals" or "leftists" are brainwashed sheep at best or accomplices to all sorts of social ills at worst, but then also argued that liberal or left wing people are incredibly intolerant of their views.
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
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@ArthurCDent Great post. I'd go even further and argue that just because something was adaptive in a certain environment it's not necessarily adaptive now. See our sweet tooth: adaptive in a world where high calory, sweet food was scarce but very much a problem in our post-scarcity world.
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Naturalness isn’t a defence. Lots of natural things (infant mortality, tribal violence, parasitism) are clearly bad. Dawkins emphasises this in his primers on evolution. But the OP needs that unspoken premise to do its work.
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This inference only works if you think unambiguous moral facts are constituted by what naturally-evolved primates converge on frequently. The argument rests on an unspoken fallacy.
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