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Feel free to enlighten me.
You do realize that much of the repression is almost at the bare minimum necessary for a country of barely 6 million people to monitor several times that number who hate their guts, while living close enough to jog over? Or bike. Or paraglide into a concert and rape the hottest chick who skipped cardio.
The Israelis are not genocidal, despite being victims of one successful genocide in barely living memory, and more that could have plausibly followed if the Arabs had been able to push them into the ocean.
Once again, I beseech you to submit an actual argument regarding why the living conditions of the average Palestinian wouldn't jump, if not to First World standards, something much more respectable, if they didn't use their schools and hospitals to operate an insurgency while using their own populace as shields.
Yeah, they might not be able to vote if they unified, but if you insist using your franchise on bringing Hamas or its sympathizers back into power on the regular, my sympathies are slim.
Edit: For anyone curious, it was a drive by comment accusing me of holding kindergarten grade views about the situation in occupied Palestine, presumably deleted when they worried the mods might notice. They still see deleted comments dawg.
I'll jump in on the side of your interlocutor and just say that while I have massive respect for your hardline consquentialist views (you really play it to the hilt!) I tend to agree that morality has to come first.
Would you not agree that as a technocratic consequentialist, you take on faith things like Scientific Objectivity and Technological Progress as goods? Or of course 'Utility,' although it's such a vaguely defined catchall I'd rather use something like 'virtue.'
"Faith"? What a queer word.
I observe an exponential or even super-exponential growth curve and its visible outcomes, and we're approaching the inflection point. I will cease having "faith" in it when the curves flatten out, our AI no longer improving, our medicine becoming stale.
Until then, I'm here for the ride.
To me the idea of Growth as something that can be judged by us is taken on faith as well. It's hard to articulate what I'm getting at, I'll come back to you once I've refined my understanding better.
In the meantime if we do achieve foom and you merge with the machines, I hope I've built up enough goodwill that you will take me in as the human serf to your machine feudal lord. And maybe some of my loved ones too ;)
Might make an interesting sci-fi premise, at least.
Nah you get a Von Neumann replicator just for you :*
Two novels at a time is enough for me, right now. Maybe when I'm a proper cyborg haha
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