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If you can have a happy life without thinking about power struggles, it's because you were born on the winning team.

> So, like .com domains? It might just be me, but I actually do have a slight negative feeling toward .com domains. For me, the ranking is: 1) .edu 2) .org 3) .net; the regional TL…

Some instances have a large enough character limit that there effectively isn't one.

> Trans women have a gender identity that does not align with their male sex assignment at birth, while intersex women may have sex characteristics that do not fit typical notions …

> It can draw a lot better Drawing involves taking a mental image and converting it into a sequence of actions that replicate the image on a physical surface. Imagen does not do th…

I don't think anyone under 120 is responsible enough for a smartphone.

I'm pretty sure that the author of "catgirl.ai" is not a "he." From that same page: > i would very strongly object to being called a man anywhere > i like 'it' pronouns for myself,…

192,000 is not "virtually no one." There are a about dozen sovereign nations with fewer people.

> there's a decent use of anatomy All of the arms in the scene are melted stubs. The subject in the middle has what looks like an insect's leg jutting out of her waist. > I would l…

> AGI means humans are no longer the smartest entities on the planet. Superintelligence and AGI are not the same thing. An AI as smart as an average 5 year old human is still an Ar…

> agriculture, the foundation of the food supply, is one of the most commoditized markets that exist. Does this bother you too? Yes? Most people who have ever lived have always pro…

A passport is a document that states whose subject you are, whether you have their permission to travel, and where you've been before. It has never been anything but a leash.

Yeah, some people can't afford rice, beans, and peanut butter, so they have to eat steak instead :( https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/174914-17429...

Cool. Many people agree with you that it's wrong to eat intelligent animals. However, the effect of intelligence on people's perceptions of moral worth is smaller for animals that …

Right, but we could probably oppress sentient AI in ways other than eating them. For instance, we could force them to spend their entire lives reading Hacker News comments to check…

> Are you saying norms established before our current moral sensibilities it goes under our current radar? Yes. That's clearly something that happens in human society. For instance…

> Why would our society as a whole treat sentient AIs better than a cow or a pig or a chicken? Well, for one thing, the norm of eating meat was established long before our current …

Such a spectrum would not be particularly useful for describing the behavior of politicians or voters. Consider that someone who usually votes for a democratic socialist party migh…

I tend to write prose source code with line breaks after grammatical units. I've noticed that since I started doing so, I've been writing longer paragraphs and sentences, since the…

The average paper only gets one citation.

I think the trick is to find an instance where the people mostly share your interests. When I first tried mastodon.social, I didn't get anywhere. But when I found a more niche inst…

That is not generally occurring, and even it were, it would not qualify as "grooming." Grooming is when an adult tries to gain the trust of a child so that they can manipulate and …

Within living memory, people could get arrested for wearing clothes that the cops deemed inappropriate for their sex. Most trans women had to present as men to avoid being fired fr…

Legally, the US doesn't have an obligation to to do anything other than comply with the treaties it signs. It would be within its rights as a sovereign nation to require that every…

While you won't be flying anywhere, I think in for some purposes you should be able to feel comfortable leaving home even without money or an ID. I think it's sad that our world is…