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> Less and less people have time and money for that, for the same reason this stuff happens in the first place (i.e. greed and wealth consolidation). It takes very little time to p…

The US is the biggest oil producer in the world. Consumption does exceed production, but obviously this changes the calculus around energy independence. It is the third largest coa…

> Gullible people can now automatically be detected and exploited, gnawed down to the bone and thrown away with none of the people who harvest their resources ever meeting or even …

The people writing about this are complaining that this is even possible , not just that Google was enabling it. > The button makes it socially acceptable to generate misinformatio…

> What does that mean? Is the older information environment books and newspapers? Then only a tyrant could arrange a return to that state, which didn't prevent the readers being cr…

Then frankly I find this all overblown and somewhat insane. The AI safetyism moral panic is something I find very demoralizing. It seems like the main legacy of AI will be its use …

Right, I understand that you were able to generate these images from Google Earth. But nowhere can I find, including in that article, where other people could see your generations …

Did Google Earth actually show these as replacements for the true imagery? Or are people simply complaining that people were able to generate these images at all? I'm struggling to…

The only difference between a heat pump and an AC is a reversal valve to change which direction you’re pumping the heat in. (Of course obviously an AC fundamentally is a heat pump,…

> which were likely written very early and often conflict quite strongly with then New Testament narratives. They were not likely written very early in almost all of those cases (y…

The Talmud is not contemporary. Not only that the identification with that figure as the Jesus is highly contested.

> Quite similar to Romulus. Yes, Joseph Smith played a similar role to Romulus in the founding of Rome: the leader and lawgiver. It's the Joseph Smith of Rome you are wishing away,…

> Also we do know there were many competing narratives describing the life of Christ just a few hundred years after he died. There were meaningful competing theologies , there were…

> Moses and exodus are completely counterfactual I don't see anything particularly counterfactual or unlikely about a group of Egyptian or Caananite-descended Egyptians leaving Egy…

> It's exactly how Romans changed from their Roman worship to christianity. The conversion of the Romans to Christianity happened because of real events, even if elements of the st…

There’s no evidence it was done “all the time”; the most logical explanation is that all these figures were based on real people, even if their exploits and histories were exaggera…

> what the motivations might have been to create such a myth. These are almost always absurdly simplistic, when they're not simply projections of how modern peoples think and what …

> What's the corroborating evidence from ~750BC documenting their existence? Heck, where's that evidence from 650BC? This is a totally unfruitful line of inquiry, unless you are an…

Or perhaps its because infanticide via exposure was a very common and widespread practice for most of human history. Either way, there's a large gulf between "Romulus and Remus wer…

Denying the possible, even likely, historicity of Romulus and Remus is silly, yes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2... Large numbers of people report their ancestry simply as "American." I would actually argue this is the origin of a l…

The US did undergo ethnogenesis; particularly in the southeast, there have long been large numbers of people that identify their ethnicity as "American." The process was largely di…