This might be worse with context. He was comparing rape and murder to attacking pedophiles.

Laws don’t bind the in-group

Eliezer, given the immense capacity of the human mind for self-delusion, it is entirely possible for someone to genuinely believe they’re being 100% altruistic even when it’s not the case. Since you know this, how then can you be so sure that you’re being entirely altruistic?

Because I didn’t wake up one morning and decide “Gee, I’m entirely altruistic”, or follow any of the other patterns that are the straightforward and knowable paths into delusive self-overestimation, nor do I currently exhibit any of the straightforward external signs which are the distinguishing marks of such a pattern. I know a lot about the way that the human mind tends to overestimate its own altruism.

Fun to unpack this here. First is the argument that we should be dismissive of any professed act of altruism unless someone is perfectly knowable. There is an interesting point here completely missed: even if the person knows themselves well enough to make the claim, others cannot possibly know another well enough to make the claim of another. Instead what we get is “trust me bro” because being contrarian is evidence of being on the correct path 🙄. We went from “we can’t possibly know another well enough to say they are altruist” to “I know when people are not altruist because they are predictable, but I am unpredictable therefore I am altruist”. I think this touches on the manipulation present in the community: you are either being manipulated and therefore cannot be an altruist because your motives are not your own (are you even selfish at this point?), OR you are contrarian enough to show you are in control of your own motives (nevermind we still can’t say whether your motives are altruistic). This is a very surface level read, I can’t bring myself to read all that slop. Parts are so redundant it feels like it was written by AI.

Religion is open to interpretation just like art. If someone interprets art and feels empowered to be a shitty person then they or the art is wrong. I don’t have to “believe” anything particular about the art to arrive at that conclusion, the same is true for religion.

They’ve helpfully characterized “the five principal forces of antiscience “ into alliterative groups: (1) plutocrats and their political action committees, (2) petrostates and their politicians and polluters, (3) fake and venal professionals—physicians and professors, (4) propagandists, especially those with podcasts, and (5) the press. The general tactic is that (1) and (2) hire (3) to generate deceitful and inflammatory talking points, which are then disseminated by all-too-willing members of (4) and (5).

They’re so incompetent but also incredibly lucky.

Because the conservative justices have signaled that precedence doesn’t matter if they don’t want it to. Maybe other judges need to follow suit to make a point…

About as much as I love having 9 people appointed for life that can overrule that voting system in case it does actually let the majority win.

They only anticipated white land lords voting. But then again, that’s exactly who voted for this.

Why expect consistency from the courts starting now or in the future?

BuT aT wHaT cOsT?

I’m hoping it’s Global Hegemony.

It’s a shrewd move as the global south will be feeling the worst effects of climate change and China is the only country that’s offering infrastructure based on renewables at scale.

What I like about her campaign is the fundraising spends the money on things that matter to people: mutual aide. Many of us saw recording breaking fundraising followed by a loss and asked, what if we spent that money on things we wouldn’t regret? And Kat answered.

Not $200 but ended up buying a xerox phaser. When looking at cost per page it is one of the cheapest though.

Maybe I’m weird but I don’t like getting a scanner combo. Scanners break more easily than printers and after my Brother all-in-one had a busted scanner I’ve been going for portable scanners that run off USB power from the laptop. Canon lide has been a solid scanner for me.

He will condone the bad in order to prevent the worse and in so doing no longer discern that the very thing that he seems to avoid as worse might well be better. This is where the basic material of tragedy is to be found.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “After Ten Years”

They ask more of people’s ignorance than they do of their virtue.

The same pressures that made internet search suck applies to AI doing search as well.

See also: setup a public wifi share box to help your neighbors scale back on subscriptions

I think this is trans positive, here’s why:

Top left: trans women are hot

Top right: hetero person who is confused by being attracted to a hot woman, they will make themselves known unfortunately

Bottom left: explicit support

Bottom right: chad will agree and be supportive when their sis are hurt. (I choose to believe this was the intent because I want to believe in humanity)

If the means of political power is cynicism then the ends will be fascism.