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> it's incredibly clear how little empathy most people have towards others Sorry but not everyone is an American. And as Conway's law applies, of course AI done by American or Chinese companies will be oppressive - with only superficial politeness à la GladOS.
Which side was your country on in WW2? And what does your country contribute to AI safety?
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Interesting that they identify mostly progressives as papabile. If they're right, Francis did an excellent job behind the scenes to set up the Church to do in the future what he could not in the present.
He's negatively affected church growth and that's stark.
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To your pre-edit: > [basically] What if in a different world Hamas had all the weapons plus the backing of the US while Israel only had shoddy weapons? In a hypothetical world where Usain Bolt was raised on Greenland and became interested in competitive gaming: would he have become the fastest human? Probably not. Different timelines. This Sam Harris exercise is meaningless. The goal is not to measure the level of ev…
> The goal is not to measure the level of evil in the hearts of or . That’s impossible. The goal of thought experiment wasn't to measure evil or good. It's to determine if the lines between good and evil are that far apart. If Ukraine was way stronger than Russia, would it try to annex Kursk and other non-Ukraine regions? Would it commit as many atrocities? No. It would be constrained by its desire to join EU. Could…
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That's not really been the standard the world holds itself to since World War II. Yes, aggressors in a just war are expected to care for the civilian population in conquered territory. Starvation as a war weapon against civilians is a war crime. https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-11/BSG-WP-... In fact, the only place it's currently legal (though generally frowned upon) is in the context of a civil war,…
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How do we know this? Because Israel isn't under sanction for the activities they are undertaking that would be considered war crimes if done to another nation.
It is a long-standing civil war that a couple generations of national leadership have failed to find a long-term resolution to. The current resolution of trying to ghetto the Palestinian people into controlled territories ("reservations," if you will, a common strategy used by colonizers to "handle" the native population) doesn't seem to be bearing fruit other than intergenerational violence.
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The laws I’m complaining about don’t do anything remotely similar yet . They would if the fundamentalists had their way. Trump obviously doesn’t give a damn about religion, but who do you think put him in office? Who does he pander to?
> The laws I’m complaining about don’t do anything remotely similar yet. They would if the fundamentalists had their way. I don't know who you are calling "fundamentalists" – I personally think the term should be restricted to the historical fundamentalist movement in American Protestantism, and those Protestants who view themselves as heirs of that movement today – but I think the vast majority of people you are lab…
Again, I don't see the practical difference between religious tribunals run by clergy, and nominally secular courts run by nominally secular judges who make religiously-guided decisions based on religiously-guided laws.
We already have such laws, ranging from blue laws to laws about medical research and procedures. And this is under a much more secular system than the dominionists would like.
Multiple states still prohibit atheists from holding office. Of course, the bans are unenforceable... for now. Such restrictions were enforced before and they could be again with the right people on the Supreme Court. From there, it's a short trip to deciding that only adherents to a proper form of Christianity count. The existing requirements already exclude non-monotheists.
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The Palestinians in Gaza and the entirety of Palestine trace their roots to 3000+ years ago actually.
Arafat was Egyptian
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Such organization doesn't exist actually, it's a zionist straw man.
Lol straw man. It's a present reality. Ask the Arabs and Levantine Muslims where all their Jews are. Why Lebanon is Muslim. Why their states are Islamic and why they have issues with religious and cultural states that they aren't a majority of.
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He's negatively affected church growth and that's stark.
How so?
His proclamation on blessing LGBT people caused a rift with the Church in Africa (remember why we have Anglicans as part of the Catholic Church?) threatening an area that's seeing church growth.
He's also had his mouth closed about the killings of Catholics in Africa and Asia by extremists.
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Arafat was Egyptian
Wikipedia: Yasser Arafat[a] (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar,[b] was a Palestinian political leader
It's public knowledge.
Also Wikipedia is known for it's progressive stance. Can't trust it for anything that intersects with culture war issues where everything is a conspiracy.
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Lol straw man. It's a present reality. Ask the Arabs and Levantine Muslims where all their Jews are. Why Lebanon is Muslim. Why their states are Islamic and why they have issues with religious and cultural states that they aren't a majority of.
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