You don’t really need to be humanoid to manipulate ddmoors and gates

Like what… stairs?

Just leave the package at the bottom of the stairs like humans do.

Can you imagine the moaning?

I thought this was the bribe?

Exactly.

Communication with people is hard enough already without an LLM deciding what parts are important.

Idiots using LLMs to write emails to people using LLMs to summarise them. It’s just slop all the way down.

I love how there’s a seemingly unlimited number of photos of taint being grumpy at the press.

I hear you.

Search and rescue is complex ethically.

Australia has the largest maritime search and rescue area and our GDP is tiny compared to most other countries. Shit gets really expensive mounting missions to the middle of the Indian ocean like for the mf370 flight and stuff.

I think the basic premise with search and rescue is that the expense is mostly disregarded if there’s any likelihood that someone is still alive.

I suspect that these guys knew that, and didn’t disclose that they’d heard this bang such that resources continued to be provided for the search. Who knows what I would’ve done. As an external party it’s clearly “wrong” but I’ll leave others to judge them for it.

Guy these things are just part of the rich tapestry of life.

I’m certain that many of my and your ancestors were the contemporary equivalent of fortnight neckbeards.

I don’t need my kids to win parenthood for me.

Sure ok.

Of course its fine to dislike engaging with someone who complains about crypto or kids, but making a judgement on someone’s reasoning for having kids is a whole other thing.

Having kids doesn’t stack up for you. Totally fine.

However, asserting that your own reasons apply to everyone else is arrogant.

Please nobody wheel out the Swiss cheese analogy or I’ll shit myself.

Do people often blame you for their kids doing those things?

People might tell you about it because… you know… maybe they think you’re a friend or maybe they’re just venting or maybe they’re making small talk.

Parents often make the mistake of thinking everyone understands what it’s like. They’re trying to find common ground by sharing those struggles.

If you don’t like it, just channel the conversation to something you do like. That said, sometimes it’s just good to let people vent. People like talking about their kids, and it’s a sneaky way to ingratiate yourself to them.

On the contrary. I can acknowledge that someone’s behavior is immoral without hating them and without rejoicing at their misfortune.

It takes some self awareness to acknowledge that.

You might want to get it looked at.

Tricky one. I think most wars purportedly fought on religious grounds are in fact about power and money. Regardless any combatants that believe they’re fighting at the behest of their deity are idiots. That’s hardly a real world application, it’s just a way to manipulate people.

I don’t really accept the premise that creating a life is either good or bad for the created life. Rather, of every n lives created, what portion would prefer never to have existed? Every parent has rolled that dice and bears the consequences of harming an entity who preferred not to exist.

If I believe in numerology and as a result decide to pat myself on the head 12 times before bed that is not evidence that numerology is not a nutty woo woo theory and has real world applications.

what is it a question of

As I said, prospective parents need to accept the risk that their child might resent them for being born. I’m happy to consider that in the unlikely circumstance that I encounter it

Aiding and abetting a genocide is depraved.

Agreed.

Going on national TV and lying about seeing “pictures of 40 beheaded babies” is depraved.

Agreed.

He deserves much worse.

Agreed.

Celebrating when a war criminal gets prostate cancer? Not depraved at all in my opinion.

Hard disagree.

You can acknowledge that he’s an awful person while refraining from celebrating his misfortune.

If someone deserves punishment, celebrating that punishment is basically just hatred. I might want to get that looked at.

I don’t really care what the hard antinatalism position is in the same way I don’t care what the hard flat earth position is.

You’re talking about it as though it’s a credible ideology when in reality it is, at best, a nutty thought experiment with no real world application.

It’s not a question of whether being brought into existence is good.

As a parent, I acknowledged and accepted the risk that a potential child might not have wanted to be born. That’s it. Presently, I don’t know how I will navigate that if it turns out to be the case, the same way I don’t know how I will navigate my daughter dating or my son watching porn, but I do know I’m going to try my best to figure those things out when I encounter them.

Every parent since the dawn of time has made up solutions as problems have arisen, some better than others. No parent seriously considered whether their unconceived child consented.

Yeah the comments ITT are pretty awful. I’m no fan of Biden, but some of the comments here are depraved.

I feel you.

I’m in Australia. If we turned fascist I would want to move but the logistics of doing that are very challenging.

I’ve never encountered the problem of being told I should have children, nor intimidation, coercion, or violence.