If it’s public properties then yes please. If private then hippity hoppity…
use eminent domain to turn it into public property?
hoppity heft property is theft
Readit Newsfjoireoipe commented on Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees danrodricks.com/2024/01/2... · Posted by u/jbrins1
fjoireoipe commented on The Psychopolitics of Trauma astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/feross
> My own story [...] is that in college a bunch of people tried to cancel me for something I’d intended to be an anti-racist joke, but which apparently didn’t come out that way.
hahaha omg we finally got the origin story. This explains this dude's entire deal.
"a bunch of people tried to cancel me" = i said dumb stuff and people stopped being my friend.
And he kept saying dumb stuff, to this very day.
Regardless of bad commentary, it’s a cogent point. Debate the idea, not the idiot.
They could have quoted someone else who made the same point. Instead they chose to give more attention to a troll.
fjoireoipe commented on History Is Written by the Losers (2016) scholars-stage.org/histor... · Posted by u/delichon
Would you mind providing links to those “true sources”, please? I’m curious to do some research for myself.
they are probably referencing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. I can't tell whether as a joke, or seriously. In any case, it should probably be downvoted, or dang should remove it. it's psuedohistory, invented to spead hate.
I'd like to make some modest assertions, to push back on fringe ideas I've seen repeated here:
1. For "the singularity" to happen, we probably need something more to happen than just chatGPT to ingest more data or use more processing power.
2. Even if, somehow, chatGPT turned into skynet, we'd hopefully be able to unplug the computer.
3. If you want to save lives, it's probably more useful to think about lives saved today than hypothetical lives you could save 100 years from now. Not that you shouldn't consider the long term, but your ability to predict the future gets worse and worse the farther you project out.
4. If you want to save lives, it's probably more useful to save actual lives, than say, hypothetical simulated lives that exist inside of a computer.
5. The argument that "we're killing more people by delaying time inventing the hypothetical life saving technology" is not very useful either, because you can't actually say how many lives would be saved versus harmed. And mostly it just sounds like a front for "give me more money and less regulations".
6. Reading a bunch of science fiction and getting into fights on an internet forum is not a substitute for education and experience. Unless you've spent a good time studying viruses, you are not a virologist, and while the consensus among virologists can be wrong, you should have the intellectual humility to realize that you are probably not equipped to tell, unless you have expertise in the field.
7. Anything that smacks of eugenics is most likely pseudoscience.
8. If someone talks like a racist / sexist / nazi, or acts like a racist / sexist / nazi, they probably are one. It's probably not a joke, or a test.