@BMcGrewvy It’s less “actions have consequences” and more “actions reveal character”.
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STOP THE PRESSES, I FOUND A NORMAL TAKE
Otto Von Tweetmarck@OVTweetmarck
The obvious reasonable take is that for those who were in sin, our actions have natural consequences that affect our futures, and for those who are seeking a spouse, it is reasonable to take that into account but do remember mercy.
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@capt_goodfellow @BMcGrewvy I agree with criticism of the state.
I just have trouble feeling very upset when it’s (under the awful circumstances, yes) what she maintained she wanted over 2 years.
When someone commits murder, they are responsible for the act, regardless of adversity. Same for suicide.
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@dodderidge @BMcGrewvy Yes - she did. The difference here is the state's involvement, approval and enablement (the same state which had not safeguarded her in its own care earlier).
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The Noelia Castillo Ramos story is just so horrible. Every single step of it is a horror. Her poor father who tried to fight for her and lost in the courts.
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@capt_goodfellow @BMcGrewvy Awful things happened to her, but she still had the options that most other people in similar circumstances pursue, but instead chose to end her life.
Quibbles over semantics are beside the point.
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@dodderidge @BMcGrewvy I think the point is that she felt she had no choice, and saw no value in living, because of crimes committed against her - things not under her control. Suicide isn't a method of coping - because now she's dead.
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@capt_goodfellow @BMcGrewvy I mean she could have gone, “Huh, this seems to be really distressing to my parents. Maybe I’ll hold off on it.”
But she didn’t.
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@capt_goodfellow @BMcGrewvy Sure, but she made her own decision to cope with that by ending her own life, as far as I can tell. Nobody seems to have forced her.
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@OliverJia1014 Despite the bizarrely hostile replies you get, a lot of us are just quietly appreciative of your posting.
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I don’t even discuss politics anymore, but it never ceases to amuse me how some people on this website still think I’m Satan incarnate.
I post about movies, video games, and cooking with retweets of cute animals. Here’s some scrambled eggs I made today. How controversial!
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@suzania Good and bad are usually somewhat subjective.
Like is it good to spend more time with your family and less time working? I don’t know, maybe?
Depends on all sorts of factors. The optimal balance will be subject-dependent.
Good/optimal is real but can be difficult to discern.
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@DistractedAnna @_baklon I mean it has definitely happened in other cases, and this person doesn’t know your friend beyond what you’ve shared here. Not an unreasonable question.
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Can someone explain to me the “anti-mystical” bent here? Why would not being mystical as a Christian be either possible or desirable. What is this about culturally or theologically?
Susannah Black Roberts@suzania
@David_Mahfood That’s one true approach, but it’s limited. Many actual experiences of writing and reading are in my experience much more mysterious and approach the transcendent. I’m also not clear why “not being mystical” is either a possibility or a goal, for Christians.
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@BMcGrewvy Well if he didn’t believe his own message, would that not devalue it in your eyes?
And if the message has value regardless of his sincerity, you could say the same for AI.
But he was 72 when he killed himself. Probably mentally decayed & the act has little significance.
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Saw someone saying that if we can still appreciate A Canticle for Leibowitz while knowing Miller despaired and committed suicide decades later, we shouldn't have a problem with AI "novels." Really.
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Prompting is not making art.
Susannah Black Roberts@suzania
@ecutruin @Lightpoint001 If you asked an artist to draw you “a cat in a Santa hat” and he does, that is not your art. It is his. That’s his imagination and skill. If you haven’t pictured something in your mind or made it with your hands, there’s nothing of you there.
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A lot of smart people I know are somewhat miserable.
Contrast that with golden retrievers -- rarely very smart, always happy.
yuzu@yuzu_4ever
i am always suspicious of people who claim to be smart but are miserable. if they really were that smart, they would have figured out how to live a joyous life.
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@wil_da_beast630 It exists, and is called the p-factor for “psychopathology” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC42…
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@BMcGrewvy Naive to buy his story of being compelled by reason to disbelieve.
He’s at the outset psychologically averse to belief in God.
So quite unsurprising that he supports a framing of the issue which makes belief in God incompatible with something he considers clearly true.
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@RealDianeYap It’s like the Scott Alexander post about parenting. Most experienced parents are able to tell where reality ends and hyperbole-as-entertainment begins. And also are able to keep in mind the positives in the broader context. But it’s hard for non-parents.
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I like Romy's content but I wonder if she realizes how potently anti-natalist most of her descriptions of son are.
She has expressed concern about the birthrate, but I bet most people reading her posts conclude "That sounds awful, I definitely don't want that."
Romy@Romy_Holland
just wrote up a baby care instruction doc for my SIL who's gonna watch the baby so we can ski tomorrow. I have never tried to explain how to keep my baby happy before and seeing it written out is pretty intense. it's basically like "just don't ever stop moving, and don't even let yourself think about the construct of sitting. he needs to be presented with a new texture to scratch at once every 90 seconds or he'll get so angry he'll vomit on you. he basically can't sit up, but he loathes lying down so don't do that either. you must clown at least once per wake window, and you're gonna need to invent noises you've never heard before. do not break eye contact. do not show fear."
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Birth order: older children tend to be more successful than younger ones when they reach adulthood. The question is why, and one answer is "mutational load"—later-born siblings have more mutations due to older fathers’ gametes having had time to accumulate additional mutations. Another answer is cultural preference—in some cultures, earlier-born children receive greater shares of bequests, favored roles in the family, etc. If resources given to kids matter for their development, then even simple resource dilution could explain birth order effects. There are additional, more specific theories to be sure, but I want to contrast biological and nonbiological theories. I suspect that when it comes to birth order effects, biology isn’t dominant. Here are a few notable designs that show us that's the case. Firstly, immigrants. Biological mechanisms underlying birth order effects should be consistent across human groups due to our similar biology. And yet, in large samples of Norway-born immigrants' kids, consistency is not observed: You might say "Maybe Indians, Sri Lankans, and the Vietnamese are biologically different in a meaningful way." Alright, but I doubt it. Here's another thing: multipartnered families. A multipartnered family involves a dad or mom who goes on and has kids with another person. If mutational load is responsible for birth order effects, than we should tend to see birth order effects persist among multipartnered men, but not among multipartnered women. As it turns out, multipartnered fathers' kids don't show birth order effects, consistent with a model where resources matter rather than mutations. On the other hand, and still consistent with the role of the environment, birth order effects were entirely preserved among multipartnered women. You could argue that maybe multipartnering men are special and multipartnered women mate assortatively to men with advancing ages. You would be wrong, but OK! Another design that reveals a lot involves fully adopted sibling cohorts. There's no biology here, and the social order is all that exists in these families—no biological order present! Despite biology being uninvolved, the birth order effects remain. They're less certain, to be sure, but they're clearly similar to the birth order effects seen in biological families. There may be some birth order effects that are attributable to mutational load, but whatever they are isn’t clear to me. Parental age doesn’t lead to that many more mutations for younger versus older siblings and the average mutation is only slightly deleterious. Because the difference in mutational load between siblings is nearly zero and the typical effect of those mutations is nearly nothing, mutational load should not be able to explain birth order effects. If you want to know more, check out my latest article: cremieux.xyz/p/birth-order-…
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Broke: Societal IQ is falling because dumb people have more kids
Woke: Societal IQ is falling because screens are rotting brains
Bespoke: Societal IQ is falling because average age at birth is rising and older parents conceive children with higher mutational loads
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Did I play a different game? Tears of the Kingdom has a great story
Bahamut@Icewallowcumin
Crimson Desert reviews sound a bit too familiar 🧐 ✅ rich open world ✅ deep combat loop ✅ varied game side activites ✅ physics-driven emergent gameplay ❌ non-existent story ❌ tedious traversal padding
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@novemberinrie @jonatanpallesen It’s premise of the movie Idiocracy basically, but at a global scale.
I assume his graph is based on data showing high fertility of low IQ regions and low fertility of high IQ regions.
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The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked.
And now it's about to crash.
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