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I think most pro-AI people would be happy to let an AI maintain the sloppy fork. What reason would they have to complain, after all?

Just as people pointed out that my misinformation line was also said by AuthLeft, gay marriage and drug legalization are both supported by LibRight (under the reasoning of governme…

It's a fundamental problem of the political compass, since people's political beliefs are usually object-level or tribal rather than rooted in fundamental principles (for example, …

"The government has the right to force people to take vaccines against their will for the sake of public safety." - Authoritarian Left "The government has no right to legislate tha…

Cost of the Macbook Pro 14 in 2031: another £1999 Cost of the Framework 13 upgrade kit in 2031: £499 The point of the upgradability and openness of the design is that you only have…

It's frustrating that the only suggestion the experts interviewed have here is essentially blue-washing woman-dominated jobs. "For instance, many health care jobs could be framed a…

Creatine is probably the most well-studied nutritional supplement we have, and one of the most efficacious. You are presenting a single study to counter that. Not even a meta-analy…

Just because a particular market is free doesn't mean it's useful to society at large. If it's not useful to society, society has no moral reason to tolerate it. If it indeed benef…

Unfortunately, "this is a wildly successful model that prints money for us with almost no upkeep required" has historically not been a bulletproof argument when new management come…

Even if that were the case, wouldn't it still be an essentially net-zero pollution system (disregarding small contributions from transport etc.)?

Sure, but it's not reasonable to call it as unpopular domestically as the Vietnam War, which had more than 12 times the casualties, spread over a group that on the whole was unwill…

> General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research? > Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Y…

Why did the author feel the need to throw in a spoiler for the end of The Conversation in the last paragraph of the article? That seems contradictory to the point of everything els…

It was available on Humble Bundle a few months ago as part of Remedy's full lineup, along with the sequel, the Alan Wake games, and Control.

>If you were given the choice of two different dangerous roads where one road had a 30% lower chance of getting into a life-threatening car crash, you would probably think that the…

... so give reviewers a financial incentive to deem reports invalid?

Reminded of this article/book review given comments here about political violence on the rise and wondering how that looks like on a wider scale.

The OP is not claiming that the link is being changed; the complaint is that a hyperlink is being generated from the plaintext URL. The HTML body of the email is being modified.

If you run a restaurant and a known dine-and-dasher walks in, can you not refuse to serve them? If you're a consultant do you have no right to refuse a client? Even if you have oth…

>So would you say changing one's mind is a case where one seeks a different religion I have no idea what you mean by this. I explained in detail what changing one's mind entails. I…

Your original issue with the article was that once you've "settled" an issue, there is no reason to argue about it. I pointed out that a number of people do not "settle" issues in …

You realize that examples can extend to other topics? "I am 60% confident that recursion is the best method for this algorithm." "Having had more time to study potential options, I…

>But they can't change their mind as they never established something that can be changed. "I am 70% confident that candidate X will win the upcoming elections." "Oh, new polling d…

This response is indicative of a completely different perspective on the idea of "argument" (and "making up your mind," a phrase that does not appear in the than the original artic…