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Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by brabel »

shp0ngle wrote: post #54

Stakedy is auto-generated by AI. (It’s hard to figure out how, it’s some crazy blockchainy thing.) The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.

I actually enjoyed the extremely straight-to-the-point argument and how the article was clearly divided into small sections that each motivate the next.

If this was done by AI, I have to say AI may offer something better than human in terms of putting forward an argument than people, if not now, in the near future (this article may be just an early example?).

I hope that we see more of this "clearer argumentation" without fluff on many topics we care about... maybe we can see things we just couldn't before.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by brabel »

3qz wrote: post #56

Obviously correct. Being ugly is much worse than racism in the present day and it’s only going to get worse. Nobody is willing to stand up for ugly people rights.

The sad thing is that there's not even any hope that anyone will ever want to standup for ugly people, bald people (me), short people etc. No one wants to "admit" openly to belonging to these groups or somehow having reasons to defend them even.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by brabel »

allenu wrote: post #69
whatshisface wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we are not far from somebody trying that. We know that people are trained to ignore advertisements by constant practice, and perhaps every possible change will eventually have to be made to stay ahead of the subconscious spam filter.

I suppose the pendulum could swing the other way one day. It might be a fashion thing. People might get tired of seeing attractive people in media all the time. Speaking for myself, I'm genuinely tired of seeing actors looking way too attractive and made up in movies. Let's go back to people looking like regular people who don't have a team of wardrobe and makeup artists behind them.

Watching Netflix, I found that in some countries this is the case: actors are mostly average or bad looking.

Sorry, but I hope the fashion does not catch on :D

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by lupire »

jstanley wrote: post #68
shp0ngle wrote: post #54

Stakedy is auto-generated by AI. (It’s hard to figure out how, it’s some crazy blockchainy thing.) The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.

Are you sure? I read https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html and it sounds like the articles are (or at least can be) written by people.

The articles are written by "digital people" based on parameters:

https://celody.com/evolution.html

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by goodpoint »

throwaway98797 wrote: post #35

would you rather have your hair back or have a six pack one is within your control the other is not. for the vast vast majority of people a six pack will improve their standing in society more than hair

Maintaining a sixpack takes very significant effort.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by lupire »

kstenerud wrote: post #62

> I just searched IMDB's 100 Most Beautiful People on the Planet and 0% of the people listed had "androgenetic alopecia". Zero. Sean Connery, John Wayne, Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham. For men, "beautiful" and "sexy" come from the projection of power. Fat men are sexy when food is scarce. The Japanese chonmage hairstyle was a reverence to the older, more accomplished fighters (who often had male pattern bal…

The list: https://m.imdb.com/list/ls066164634/

(Note that it is just a random user's content, not a poll of many users or any expert.)

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by edanm »

anotherhue wrote: post #4

Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…

> They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination?

Define protected. In the legal sense? In the cultural sense?

I wouldn't necessarily say we should impose a specific law to ban discrimination against e.g. short people, but for sure I'd be... uncomfortable with an employer deciding to discriminate against someone solely for their height (assuming that the height isn't a relevant factor for their job performance, of course.)

Would I think it's ok to be culturally against an employer for doing so? Probably yes. Would I think they should be able to be sued for it? Trickier but probably yes? I'm not sure. Should we have specific laws against it (i.e. in the States, making height a protected class)? Probably unnecessary given that there is no specific historical discrimination against short people.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by sumedh »

armchairhacker wrote: post #15
anotherhue wrote: post #4

Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…

Then we have social justice for fat people, dumb people, lazy people, people with anger problems, people with personality disorders, criminals, and so on. Where do we draw the line? I argue we don't draw the line at all. Rather, we treat everyone with compassion and respect, and find / judge everyone on their true strengths and weaknesses (vs. those characteristic of whatever group they belong to). Discrimination is…

Being fat and lazy is under your control, being bald is not.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by markdown »

kstenerud wrote: post #62

> I just searched IMDB's 100 Most Beautiful People on the Planet and 0% of the people listed had "androgenetic alopecia". Zero. Sean Connery, John Wayne, Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham. For men, "beautiful" and "sexy" come from the projection of power. Fat men are sexy when food is scarce. The Japanese chonmage hairstyle was a reverence to the older, more accomplished fighters (who often had male pattern bal…

And hasn't Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) been the highest earning actor for years?

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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Post by shp0ngle »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #73
shp0ngle wrote: post #54

Stakedy is auto-generated by AI. (It’s hard to figure out how, it’s some crazy blockchainy thing.) The fact that people don’t recognize that and try to argue the merit of the article here makes me scared.

It reminds me of a 'well done' essay by an unimaginative 15 year old honors student. Someone not talented or really smart, but someone able to grind out the work. Maybe not even unimaginative, perhaps they were given a task by the teacher write about a type of prejudice that affects our world and they came up with this as a way to subvert expectations. Although this kind of subverting expectations is also like the lo…

You can see how many articles they have and how they are all weirdly same and they all just kind of seem like an argument but not really.

There is “how it works” article but even that seems written in this weird style.

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