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The average age in the US is 26. Maybe your perspective is limited?

My understanding of the pro life view is that if someone chooses to put sperm in there, they are agreeing to give up some bodily autonomy and carry the child to birth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity

What if "I" woke up in someone else's body? I'm sure there are movies with this premise, where "someone" wakes up in someone else's body, but they have the memories from their prev…

That is an interesting thought. It might depend on how you define "person". When I look around, I see distinct human bodies. When I wake up, I'm in the same body as when I went to …

I think what I was getting at is that it may be impossible to tell from the outside if something is conscious or not. If I can't even prove to myself that another person is conscio…

Maybe I'm the only one who is real, and everyone else are just robots. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to know for sure.

Will an AI ever be able to make correct moral decisions? Or is that something only a human can do?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness Consciousness is not well defined. To me, this indicates that we don't really know what's going on.

https://english.pravda.ru/

Ukraine should have kept their nukes or joined Nato or Russia.

The timestamps can be changed by Twitter

It would also be interesting to see what has been cut from episodes which are (partially?) available.

They have censored a lot of his stuff.

Text messaging on cell phones worked fine until Apple got involved. Now when I send a message to a relative, their response goes to my Macbook. (I have an Android phone, they have …

In my opinion, these are bad names and we would all have saved a lot of brain power if simple and clearly meaningful names were chosen. The cultural reference in the names preserve…

I hope my surgeon doesn't have your attitude. You need to both do good work and take responsibility to communicate this to your manager. If you just do good work, but don't communi…

A central authority can be advantageous, until it becomes dysfunctional or prioritizes its own interests over the interests of those it serves.

It's about fixing asymmetries of information and control. It's not necessarily about "centralized" vs "decentralized".

Many people care about Julian Assange.

The nature of reality is dramatically different from anyone's perception. Everything's going to be ok.

Get a job

How do you know their intent?