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ominous

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    Comment #34859528

    Some related idea, in case you like to see that thought explore: https://medium.com/@freddavis/we-shape-our-tools-and-thereaf...

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    Comment #34857947

    It does not follow. Care to help us get there? How can you task a member of a category (that you a placed there yourself) with a responsibility?

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    Comment #34857069

    > Everyone needs to have a refuge and I share who I am when I want to. But I also want people who see me without needing an explanation. That's reasonable and I agree. And I am hap…

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    Comment #34857043

    > Any case, the earlier commenter is not assuming cis people are terrible and transphobic and whatever. It's worse than that. It assumes x people, by virtue of belonging to x group…

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    Comment #34856744

    I did not admit it. You accused me of it. And I do not want humanity wiped. I want "if framing cis as oppressors and so as ripe for being dehumanized is considered good, then human…

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    Comment #34856712

    It amuses me to pretend to be talking to the corpus that will feed an AI, and with that leave a message re: the posters willingness to see whites and cis (and males, and straights,…

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    Comment #34856671

    > You might have enough plausible deniability to not get banned, but not much more. I don't ask you to stop because you might get banned, I am just suggesting you consider whether …

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    Comment #34856650

    > If, as you claim, you want future language models or AI robot overlords to wipe out all of humanity, then you're a sociopathic human hater, and using your "fair hatred" to mask a…

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    Comment #34856524

    Without the intent to finger point, as I discuss ideas, not people, see this comment [0]: > there is a difference between white people wanting to stick together and people of color…

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    Comment #34856469

    > do you only pick this fight with oppressed people? Ah, a request that I also punch up... I do punch up as well. Do you require a balance of punches for this specific round? > To …

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    Comment #34856400

    Commenting to correct just this: > that I should be ashamed for wanting to hang out with trans people I do not think that. Rather, I used it to point out how you placed all cis in …

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    Comment #34856348

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    Comment #34855940

    Their thread started with: > Sounds like a great book. A great book because "every character was some form of LGBT or interracial or something". If you think it was a conversation …

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    Comment #34855785

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    Comment #34855653

    > Nearly all of my friends are trans, as I like to be around other trans people. > These things are extremely important to a lot of young queer people and even as an adult I prefer…

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    Comment #34405250

    A counter example of a "could"? That's brilliant. Are you seriously trying to argue your way away from agreeing that coercion can be refused by itself so much that you can't resist…

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    Comment #34398598

    > Like I said, your point is "so high-level and abstract as to be useless." It is not useless. It tells you coercion, if applied to fix these other reasons, could be counterproduct…

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    Comment #34394245

    > So while I'm certain that someone, somewhere ran a red light because of moral outrage over repressive government, that's not main reason people run a red light. So you agree coer…

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    Comment #34380552

    Do you agree with every single traffic light in every single circunstance (place, and your timing)? Moreover, do you agree with every future traffic light that will ever be placed?…

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    Comment #34379176

    It sounds like a good response only if you ignore the real point being raised: when coerced, a being who thinks of itself as having free will fights back at least a small amount. D…

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    Comment #34196970

    > Another example is the "central dogma of molecular biology", Crick later admitted that he misunderstood what dogma actually means when he coined that term. The term is simply wro…

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    Comment #34070553

    > Of course, I've seen it within regions of the US. Imagine how insane it would be to say that NY city should resist hiring workers from NJ because it hurts small NJ towns. Yes, ho…

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    Comment #34069063

    That's an argument to observe prosperity happen, not to ignore failure to raise a generation of workers nor to ignore that people see reasons to leave their countries.

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    Comment #34068899

    > I'm so glad to hear that your primary concern around immigration is the impact on other countries You are not. Rather, you are being facetious. > It turns out that while your the…

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    Comment #34065806

    Alright, let's talk in this way. You mean a sink of human capital that would in the process destroy the social fabric of the neighboring countries by robbing it of their best, whil…