"The ones who walk away from Omelas describes a utopia ---"
good enough! ship it!
The poster deftly doesn't address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?
This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
CW: barely disguised transphobia
"friendly neighborhood transhumanist liberal" asks why bans on "conversion therapy" for trans folks are being enacted without looking at the science, which they're surprised is non-existent
Habryka is too busy writing long screeds warning people not to vote for random junior politicians to moderate
I think we can all agree now that US Rationalists are basically all ex-Christians who are looking for the same thing but with the serial numbers filed off.
This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.
"tenant of white supremacy"
White Supremacy is the worst landlord.
As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.
And here we were worrying about being out of work...
Normal person: an LLM is trained on publicly available images of MRIs, most with tumors, so presenting an image of any MRI will naturally generate text related to brain tumor descriptions.
Brain-addled prompt fondlers: clearly this response proves Claude is more intelligent than any doctor.
I believe the scientific consensus is that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
The "lab leak theory", while not impossible, is also shorthand for a morass of conspiracy theories grounded in racist attitudes towards China. It somehow conflates that the pandemic is China's fault, if not an outright attack from China, while simultaneously downplaying any efforts to mitigate such an attack.
techbros gonna techbro:
The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party
btw I live in Sweden and until today I have never heard of these nutjobs