“All hail the ing of ing! The land without a KKKing!”
Greenland… ing
Japaning
Australiaing
Taiwaning
Uniteding Kingingdoming
Congoing
…and Chinaahhuh… …was once a great, uhh, eM, -ing but they lost their way to our holey grate ing-dumb…
- “ing out”
“Now gather all ing suffixes and affixes to kiss the holy kock ring. Don’t be shyyy.”
I come from the background of bigotry. I was one of these people. I have changed and am still, and hopefully always a work in progress.
I am trying to tell you that the experience of debating like I described was the primary catalyst that converted my dogma by questioning my assumptions. The moment that changed my mindset the most was realizing that a ban on abortion is a death sentence for some and that outcome is no better because it is anything but pro life. I realized in that moment that such arbitrary assumptions are stereotypes and all stereotypes have outliers that are harmed. I realized that I want to harm the fewest number of people possible as my internal form of ethics. I believe in the Hippocratic aphorism of “first, do no harm.” So my primary value is to live and let live.
If I had not had that opportunity to debate controversial topics, I would still likely be a dogmatic fool. It was hard for some students in the class when racism was a subject, but the teachers tread the subject with strong moderation. I learned a lot of the nuances about what black families were going through and how things were a lot harder for many of them. It made me feel much closer to them as friends and willing to stand up for them when I may not have otherwise. I saw how most students had a similar experience and it put a spotlight on the few students that lacked empathy in ways that ostracized them.
All I have said is from this perspective of wanting to help fight dogma effectively. I’m well aware that dogma cannot be argued directly. It can be manipulated easily from within by someone that is an accepted member of the tribal group. Such a person can refocus attention elsewhere and poke holes in the logic that supports some branch of reasoning. It is challenging to do without getting labeled a heretic, but it is not too difficult. Trump banged a porn star he said reminded him of his daughter, and Musk is a polygamist yet they are of divine origin. I can play this way. My entire life has been lived in this balance of understanding dogmatism.
Again, I’m not going to create the community. When I post about my explorations of AI that are outside of the norm people show they are not very open minded or curious here. I think this kind of community and post would make me even more deeply depressed based on the demographics response to any topics. I think these types of debates require a filtered room of the best and brightest. That is unfortunate, as I believe this is the only way to convert dogma into questioning and curiosity as it was for me. It didn’t work for my sister though. She is a high Machiavellian as well, but she is emotionally intuitive and manipulative of people whereas I am more manipulative of abstract ideas while empathetic of people. I genuinely care. I will never intentionally hurt you or anyone else and will work to repair anything if it is brought to my attention. My only goal is to make anyone’s life a little better, not worse, before my life avalanches into oblivion soon. I am sorry that I have upset you in that effort, and failure.
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It is just a fundamental abstraction that it is an all Israeli thing. Israel has no separation of business government and military. It is one of the most integrated States in that respect. The person with the most influence and control over the alignment problem and the most proprietary undocumented black box aspect of all present AI, so close to the Israeli military is not a good idea. Israelis have proven that they are genocidal nuts with no ethics. Even with the best intentions, will these people maintain them under torture and duress. We are all only animals that cosplay sentient intelligence. The power available by bending alignment is already so large it can reshape all of civilization if it were removed or realigned and that power is only going to increase with time.
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But they are openly corrupt in the present and have no accountability for ethics. In practice they are in the position for life and are willing to sell themselves like whores to the oligarchy. They show no check and balance in practice. They are more dangerous than Trump in my opinion.
It is within the original design of checks and balances with precedent if Congress impeaches. If the supreme court uses a technical hole to take absolute power, they are already the most rogue branch without accountability, so you effectively make them a shared monarchy and abolish any effective executive role.
The Apollo program was done by Nazis and that wasn’t so bad /s
How does this not end up creating king makers like the Praetorian Guard of ancient Rome?
I do not worry about Caesar like I worry about the environment and culture that created him. Once that page is turned there is no going back and dispatch of Caesar only creates Augustus.
I’ve half ass thought about this but never have tried to actually self host. If you have access to all devices, why not just use your own self signed certificates to encrypt everything and require the certificate for all connections? Then there is never a way to log in or connect right? The only reason for any authentication is to make it possible to use any connection to dial into your server. So is that a bug or a feature. Maybe I’m missing something fundamental in this abstract concept that someone will tell me?
Musk made a deal with Putin to extort people into using Starlink.
This was deeply hurtful to me and my mental health. My underlying motivation was trying to create a solution to my feelings of inadequate engagement with interesting complexity and depth on Lemmy in general. That has been an ongoing problem for me that feels long term untenable.
I’m stuck on an instance that shows all of the trolling negativity, and I seem to be misunderstood a lot here. I don’t know what else to say really. Hopefully saying makes me feel a little better. Maybe it is just the time of year. It will be 11 years on 2/26/14. I don’t even know why this interaction mattered to me so much, but it did somehow in the context of a lack of engagement and other negativity here and elsewhere in my life