It takes a lot of leg power for this amount of logical leaping.

It’s something of a tradition to occasionally frankenstein together a backronym for bills/acts. Feel free to search “worst US backronyms” or similar for more!

Can you prove that ChatGPT is not conscious? No. The hard problem of consciousness cuts both ways. Right now there is no way to know one way or the other.

You, when you step in dog shit: "Oh no!!! I'm sorry, Mr. Conscious Poop, who is conscious because I can't prove that you aren't!"

Ares was the god of peace really

According to books, which are smart and true, war is peace, so this is true!

It’s almost as if these crypto miners don’t care about laws or even the world in which they live!

This is not what I expected, tbh. I was in here ready to make jokes about the health risks of bear attacks, but this is something else.

In this article I’ll be making a distinction between what I call Hard WN and Soft WN.

In this article I will mostly be describing why I left Soft WN.

oh dawg

A standout, self-contained example of the general badness of this post is this anecdote (CW: transphobia/misgendering):

A trans woman I follow on Twitter complained that a receptionist at her workplace said she looked like some male celebrity. "I'm so mad," she fumed. "I look like this right now"—there was a photo attached to the Tweet—"how could anyone ever think that was an okay thing to say?" It is genuinely sad that the author of those Tweets didn't get perceived in the way she would prefer! But the thing I want her to understand, a thing I think any sane adult (on Earth, and not just dath ilan) should understand— It was a compliment! That receptionist was almost certainly thinking of someone like David Bowie or Eddie Izzard, rather than being hateful. The author should have graciously accepted the compliment and done something to pass better next time.[15] The horror of trans culture is that it's impossible to imagine any of these people doing that—noticing that they're behaving like a TERF's hostile stereotype of a narcissistic, gaslighting trans-identified man and snapping out of it.

It is baffling that they choose to speculate about/rationalise the offending comment to cast aspersions on the protagonist and “trans culture” as a whole.

Epistemic status: I have made it through this swamp. I did not read the footnotes. I glossed over the comments. Also as far as I can tell I am a cishet male, which is probably relevant to mention in reviewing this.

So here is where I am at. This post fractal sucks. Davis clearly doesn’t identify with the gender essentialist notion of male, but they also want to hold onto the idea of a biological sex binary. It sucks. I don’t think this is a unique situation- there are plenty of stories about trans kids in conservative/religious households. This particular conservative religion is the robot cult. The oppressive parents are the ghost of 2007!Yud and Scoot.

What the fucking fuck?

Mr. Utilitarianism is OK with exploiting power dynamics to propose sexual quid pro quos? Who could have guessed.

Someone should do a rewrite of "A Modest Proposal" in the form of one of these EA posts. It'd probably do pretty well.