sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Recursive because it lets you improve the capacity to self-improve.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Should I post payment credentials to accept donations for my own AI organization? I promise to do even less to build the AI that takes over the world.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Isn't MIRI effectively a rock with the words "don't build the AI [that takes over the world]" on it? I don't recall them building anything. By those standards I'm an AI organization too.
We also find it historically attested that a man in the 1800s has declared that he talked to an angel, wrote a new holy book and convinced millions of disciples to take what is, in plain terms, a blatant heresy of the dominant religion seriously.
Thankfully, USA is not ancient Rome, so the Mormons weren't yet widely tested for their capacity for martyrdom. Yet this is a modern example of how easy it is to become a prophet and found a religion. Extrapolate it from 200 years ago to 2000, with corredpondingly spottier reporting, and the story of Jesus of Nazareth doesn't look that out of place.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Being unsure about some aspects of our reality and being unsure about God are very different kinds of unsure, as you've highlighted with your model of layered realities.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
You could argue that any relationship built on communication with a higher entity would necessarily be one built on coercion, sure. But without communication there is no relationship. When one can't be sure if he's speaking with God or with the echoes of his own mind refracted through religious culture, where does freely made choice even come into it?
If a willful intelligence from a higher reality actually talked to me, as you're correct to point out it could if it wanted, my questions towards Christians and interrogations of the truthfulness of their faith would be much fewer.
(Allegedly divinely-inspired words of mortal men, "signs", feelings and vibes are no proper replacement for a conversation in my book. If it wanted to talk to me, it could talk to me.)
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
If our assumptions based on the observable reality don't work for higher realities, then that should signal we can't derive how/if God works from what we see in our world. No matter how much evidence there is in favor of Christianity, it provides no truth value.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
You must see how that just sounds like "separating from family made me feel worse". Those whose Christian family was, in fact, the miserable part of their lives, or those whose family was not religious at all, would have different experiences.
If the air stopped being there for an hour, I would certainly be very inconvenienced, yet no one thinks of selling of buying air at all, let alone for the infinitely-high price the necessity theory of value would command.
It appears that "how likely the work is to stop being done" is a factor in evaluating its worth that cannot be ignored. Menial work is something that many can, and will, for relatively small pay, do.
An EA suggesting that someone who can do rare kinds of labor should do those, and leave the common kinds of labor to those who are only capable of that much, seems reasonable. Both for the purposes of "you get more money" and for increasing the amount of rare labor being done in the world, which is presumably good. Snobbery doesn't have to be part of the equation.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
I wouldn't insist that all historical evidence is bad. But from what I have read, an average layman does believe popular history more than they should. There's this "historical evidence on Sparta was largely written down by Sparta's political opponents" factoid that I recall of note.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
"Dandymaxxing" implies a higher fixation on fashion than what I observe in the looksmaxxers who seem to be more focused on maxilla and bonesmashing.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
I think you missed the part where I don't believe that it happened.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
I'm starting to think that if "Christ rose from the dead" is something that historical evidence supports, despite all the other evidence to the contrary of such things being possible, then it is not that I should believe in the return of Christ more, but that I should believe in historical evidence less - including other areas of history.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
Wouldn't oriental martial arts serve better then, not the one marketed as the pragmatic spec ops killer system?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
They are saving lives, are they not? It's just that there are more lives to be saved every minute.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
Suppose we go by size - Sol is on the medium-small side as stars go.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
You know that "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" is about something a person can't do, right?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
Having any non-Sol star within your grasp is obviously cooler than just Sol.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
It's a face that has just about no "beauty", but I wouldn't call it ugly. It's not deformed or anything, just a stereotypical testosterone gopnik face. It has the nobility of a well-formed specimen.
Should also consider that the picture was probably taken in the context where threateningly mugging at the camera is appropriate.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
If I have the energy efficiency to disassemble the Earth, why would I bother with a Dyson sphere?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
10d ago
I do not recall any country where suffering from psychosis deprives someone from voting rights.
If you want to argue that giving the same vote to someone who isn't criminally responsible in the same way is unjust, then you could argue that.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
11d ago
More cynical people say both are also purchased in the girlfriend case. But the underlying motivation and emotions differ, and the client knows they differ, and some get off on it not unlike the men who prefer a conventional girlfriend to the one who takes pay by the hour.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
11d ago
Don't you also see the difference between a real girlfriend and a purchased Girlfriend Experience?
(What's D1? Google and deepseek fail me.)
Suppose I write a book of mixed sensible life advice and myths, then claim it is the inspired word of a God who cannot lie. Which of the three options would be the most sensible approach to such a book?
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