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Not if the way it lasts a lifetime is by being made of the same material that wears off but being made of more of it. 🤷‍♂️

Yes: that helping isn’t always easy or rewarded but that we do it anyway because it is what’s right.

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An example for others for sure.

Knights on Bikes?

The arbitrary criteria I spoke of is slightly different. 🤷‍♂️

If an “uncontacted” group here on earth suddenly arrived at the nearest “civilized” settlement and asked for help curing a disease ravaging their people, would you advocate we turn away?

What if the disease is something easily cured with modern medicine?

A blanket rule to not “interfere” with civilizations based on an arbitrary criteria (in ST: warp capable) is immoral.

When someone lies about helping, that’s not what I am talking about.

This is a thought experiment based on a hyper advanced society capable of easily solving many problems. We don’t have that and never have on this planet.

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It’s been a long … time … since I saw ENT, and I couldn’t recall that episode, so I went and read a plot summary and still had a hard time recalling it.

The plot summary makes it seem, to me at least, like a very specific and constructed scenario to try to justify it ex-post-facto in canon.

My major issue with the directive is how general and unnuanced it is. Of course there are cases where you would not want to intervene because of some unique issue. To avoid helping for fear of potential futures is cowardly and unjustified, however.

That’s on them.

How is this hypothetical a false premise?

This thought experiment is pretty easy:

if you could alleviate a large amout of suffering and death for a sentient species at little to no cost to yourself, would you?

If you can do that so trivially that it has no negative impact on you, and you do not do it, are you acting ethically?

The answers will be yes and no for most people. To me that makes it clear that neither the Prime Directive nor any kind of all-powerful deity can be moral, at least not humanly moral.

The Prime Directive is immoral.

Shouldn’t public servants have to serve the public? All of the public?

If you don’t feel like you can serve the public, do not seek a public service position.

Others have pointed this out to you already, though. 🤷‍♂️

So you’re updating your beliefs now that you know facts, right?

… right?

I’ll uh … be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn’t <checks notes> show me an ad when I am logging in.

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I’ll uh … be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn’t <checks notes> show me a full-screen ad.

This is one company using FUD to scare you away from another to switch to them.

This company is doing the thing they say is bad but <checks notes> for marketing purposes.

Miss me with this shit, I will keep backing my stuff up into a service that stores bulk data…🤷‍♂️

I’m in the market for a used EV - I won’t touch a Tesla (not just because of Musk, but he’s a part of it).

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Honestly this is what I ask myself about conservatives a lot: how can they be so mad at so many things all the time?

AI as it currently stands is basically pseudo-random noise being run through a very large and complex network and you get something out the other side that is very close to human generated text but instead of a mind behind it, it’s those random numbers.

So … AI is essentially like a human psychic.

Whenever you read about AI doing something like this, replace it with “psychic” and think about how it makes the feel of the story change.

They can hope while we welcome their best and brightest who don’t want the government all over their bodies and lives.

I agree we need to build more housing, but as an Angeleno, fuck this fear of biting off more than we can chew, let’s fuckin’ go.