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Nov 3

Hamas Finally Answered The Question: “What Is Woke?”
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Steve QJ

Over and over you write what I think and express yourself better than I am able.

Over and over you write what I think and express yourself better than I am able. Thank you! That's all I need to say, but I posted the below a few days ago elsewhere: Woke divides everyone into victims and oppressors. The categories are supposedly immutable and are determined by…

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Nov 3

Is it Possible to Prove the Simulation Hypothesis?
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Lee Vaughan

We don't live in a simulation.

We don't live in a simulation. No one is running the vast numbers of simulations needed to make the hypothesis plausible. The reason is moral. No cyberethics committee, human or not, would sanction creating such simulations and the immense amount of unnecessary suffering they would engender. For any compelling research problem, a more moral approach will be devised. It's the "problem of evil," but magnified by the huge factor that counts how many simulations are running, and have been run, and will be, run. This argument is not telling against the existence of God, but it is compelling against the simulation hypothesis.

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Oct 7

Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge”
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Emily M. Bender

I think you are wedded to an outmoded paradigm.

I think you are wedded to an outmoded paradigm. You underestimate the power and significance of he current approaches to AI. I was a big fan of the symbolic approach to AI. I now view it as akin to alchemy: useful insights, but based on a fundamentally flawed model. The…

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Sep 4

The origins of Anti-Globalism Dog Whistles and its anti-Semitic Attitudes and Beliefs!
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Kyle James Wright

I think you're well-intentioned, but I fundamentally disagree with you.

I think you're well-intentioned, but I fundamentally disagree with you. Contrary to your statement, there are globalists. There are also anti-globalists, such as the Jewish Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. I'm also Jewish American and, while not in Mr. Stiglitz's league, I'm irrevocably anti-globalist. To be fair, Mr. Stiglitz is…

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Aug 16

Can a Black Person Be Racist?
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Douglas Giles, PhD

Pretty much nonsense.

Pretty much nonsense. Yes, a Black American can be a racist. Consider Zwerner, the White teacher who was shot by a disturbed 6 year old Black child in her classroom in Newport News, VA. Was she a victim of Black racism? Absolutely. Yes, the racism of the child, but let's…

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Jul 20

I'm not sure how this disproves what I've written. I have not mentioned socialists.
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Marek Janda

You write:

You write: Income inequality does not really bother me. It should. You also write: I am not really jealous of someone doing better than me. Envy is not good for anyone. I agree, but it's not about envy or jealousy. It's not about "garden-variety" inequality. I don't care that some…

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Jul 19

Do You Miss the America You Grew Up In?
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John Egelkrout

Things were not as good as we recollect.

Things were not as good as we recollect. But back then, people looked forward to the future. Problems seemed solvable and "progress" was an almost tangible thing. No more. People, of all ages, no longer believe in progress. They think, perfectly reasonably, that the future will be worse than the…

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Jul 19

While past positions are important, you should be eager to vote for Biden in 2024 based on what is…
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Chase Felix

In theory, sure. In practice, no.

In theory, sure. In practice, no. Democrats are great at promising important things. They never deliver. You can blame it on Republican obstruction, but that's way too facile. Republicans get their agenda passed -- even when their agenda is unpopular and when Republicans are in the minority. …

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Jul 12

It’s Time We Stop Saying the Left & the Right Are the Same
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Joe Duncan

Speaking of nuance, let's quit pretending the Democratic Party is a Left party.

Speaking of nuance, let's quit pretending the Democratic Party is a Left party. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party differ, but both parties are right-wing. The Republican Party is extreme right wing, the Democratic Party less so. The Democratic Party appropriates Left rhetoric and ideas while campaigning, but, when…

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Jun 27

Is billionaire wealth *really* not taxed?
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Paul Pallaghy, PhD

You miss the most important point.

You miss the most important point. Justice Louis Brandeis wrote: We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Let's quantify this. Say you can effectively "buy" a person's actions with around $20 million. …

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rael persone

rael persone

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Resident of Santa Fe, NM. An enlightened (I hope) technophile.

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