This whole thread is a box of rocks.

Does that mean that the people who got an A in biology are more right than people who got a B in biology?

Sounds right

Do you prefer fascists that insist that they aren’t?

Maybe they think the display of self-awareness balances it out.

Seeing things from a view very different from your own is difficult. Imagining that such a view might exist is also difficult.

It’s easier to assume that everybody sees the same. That’s basically how language works.

Sure it is. When referring to a man’s penis you would say “his penis”.

On a related note, can you catch stupid over the Internet?

Because having words for describing a person’s body is useful in the medical profession.

A doctor can still use he/she though, right?

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Heck yes.

Right off the factory floor they are programmed to increase shareholder value. Some of them become accountants.

But we want to replace humans. Very much so.

Every human in the chain between supreme leader and murderbot army is a weak link.

I picture a little wooden catapult throwing ww2 pineapples but I know it’s an 8ga shotgun that fires rockets.

Yeah this is going to end well.

If it’s a truly worthwhile project, and that’s really really rare, then it deserves every single conscious moment of attention. The whole soul.

Consider the vast gulf between science and scientific authoritarianism.

That’s a rather idealized take

And that “meaningful difference” is conveyed and described in, yes, the backstory.