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Perhaps it is because "STEM types" understand the difference in rigor that mathematics affords hard sciences. That's not an opinion.

Can we please stop using the term[s] "[un]privilege[d]" in computer science? It's a socially charged word and given that it potentially reminds people of their lack of privilege it…

This is such ridiculous alarmism. This is one of the worst case predictions and is unlikely to occur. Most likely you'll see gradual migrations over the next 100 or so years away f…

Shutting down petroleum overnight would completely shutter the economy and starve/kill millions of people.

Not all animal species carry the same risk. This isn't about privilege - or at least not anymore. Mainland Chinese learned to eat anything and everything that moved after food shor…

I had no idea that all those stereotypes about moonshine turning people blind and/or crazy were real - I guess methanol alcohol was a common enough contaminant in bootleg alcohol d…

So it's totally fine to call thieves Jamals, right?

It's kind of racist/sexist. Pretty obviously such. I'm not personally offended but I am bothered by the casual double standard.

>In places such as Siberia, a hotter climate can have devastating effects, not just on the local wildlife and people who live there, but also on the world’s climate system as a who…

>mindless masses Perhaps you meant this hyperbolically but I do not believe it to be an exaggeration. >What specifically makes them captive They are captive because of a combinatio…

How many of them even realize that their worldview is potentially being shaped by the moderation teams of the tech they consume? And what alternatives exist to the major platforms …

To all of the people who feel similarly, and have problems ruminating: Try thinking in terms of probabilities - that's the real way out, to recognize that all of the negative scena…

The prompts don't matter if the training data isn't up to par - more importantly I believe the nature of the training is such that the weight activations for the various prompts ar…

This was hilarious, but it brings up a serious concern: if you train your AI on a bunch of shallow, clickbaity content from the internet, you're going to get shallow, clickbaity ou…

Define misuse.

>Roman Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Japanese Empire, Mughal Empire Imagine, for a moment, that each one of these had nukes. What's the probability they'd use them to mak…

You don't have enough information to go from this >that's only 80 mental mutations between us and the Homo species that made this axe. To this >These guys were just about as smart …

>It's because normal people are not equipped to deal with the cherrypicking and manipulative narrative that these kinds of "evidence" papers show I'm pretty sure this is the exact …

>Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it's all okay is telling people you don't care about them - they notice, they're not dumb. No no no no no. It's high time we stop t…

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>So tyranny of the majority is fine Perhaps it is preferable to tyranny by the minority. >authorization" stemming from? Did we explicitly authorize it? Or was it implied by our ina…

At some point people become enough of a liability that we collectively as a society have authorized the restriction of their rights. This is a literally subversive movement. I'm no…

>yet you're trying to convince yourself and everyone else that "illegals vote in large numbers" Not once have I said anything like this. I've been trying to show that it's a valid …

That point is not under contention; let me reiterate >the “New Motor Voter Act,” which was passed in October 2015. The combination of these two acts, one allowing undocumented resi…

>Potential voters “have to demonstrate proof of age But if we are registering people who should not be voting, that's one less safeguard, and now we are relying solely on the good …