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jsomae

@ jsomae @lemmy.ml

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polite leftists make more leftists

☞ 🇨🇦 (it's a bit of a fixer-upper eh) ☜

more leftists make revolution

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • The law applies to everybody, but the law-makers change the laws to benefit certain people. And then trump pardons the rest lol.

  • Iron

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  • Okay, well, to be clear, my position is: let's do medical advancement and let's replace current IP law. Whether or not billionaires get a profit doesn't enter my calculus. I care only about improving the life of the lower class; redistributing the wealth of billionaires would definitely be good for that goal, but if there is something that benefits both the lower class and billionaires I will not reject it on the principle of not helping billionaires.

  • It's not theft

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  • You wouldn't download a car.

  • Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now

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  • I didn't mean to ask how one can view the comments. I meant to ask how it's possible at all in the first place.

  • Iron

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  • I didn't say that at all. I never said those were mutually exclusive. You are the one who came along and asserted that medical advancements could only be made under current IP law.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • I don't really agree that "everyone knows this" when everyone I know talks about environmentalism almost exclusively in terms of individual impact.

  • Python!

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  • Exactly what this comic is saying. C++ can handle in 20 minutes what takes python 12 hours, but something gets destroyed.

  • Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now

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  • How is it possible to view deleted comments?

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • We let environmentalism become an individual issue, and that was a mistake. Can we not do this for AI? It's a society-wide problem, not something you can solve by measuring your own personal AI footprint.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • Why are you dissing on vegans? Veganism is legit, bro.

  • Iron

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  • We should already change our laws on ownership. I'm not sure how it's possible that I'm saying "we should improve healthcare and also change IP laws" and you're hearing me say "IP laws are good the way they are." The U.S. is past the threshold already.

  • Iron

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  • Well, the current situation in the U.S. is pretty bad. But I'm happier that at least some people are able to get, say, insulin for their diabetes, than that nobody can. I would of course greatly prefer free or at least cheap access to insulin for all, but I would not press a magic button to remove insulin entirely in order to screw over big pharma. I know someone with diabetes -- how could I say their life is not worth the cost to society that comes capitalists exploiting a monopoly on insulin?

    Similarly, in the future, I hope to be able to say that in expectation somebody I know would have had down syndrome had it not been prevented by (the non-evil kind of) eugenics programs such as polygenics.

  • GOP senator who said trans people put girls at "risk" just helped a relative who raped a 13-year-old - LGBTQ Nation

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  • For sure, it's irrational bigotry. It's still a misleading omission.

  • Iron

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  • Well, I do agree we should completely rework IP law in general. But I wouldn't want to delay progress in genetic engineering until we can restructure society. It's important to improve the human condition, even if society isn't able to allow equitable access to every technology yet.

  • Pledge of Allegiance

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  • Before I do any whataboutism, I always say "if you'll excuse some whataboutism" since I don't like to hide it. But this was not whataboutism. You're talking about special treatment, and that is something which is only defined in reference to context. You can't say one religion is special and then casually reject any evidence to the contrary which makes reference to other religions. That's what special means.

    FWIW, I agree with you that it should be okay to criticize any religion. But to me, this entire chain of comments has been about whether or not Judaism is actually treated differently from other religions.

  • Iron

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  • I don't really get how you're getting all that from polygenic selection -- the current state of the art in legal eugenics. Polygenic selection is just like, choosing the best of n embryos; any one of these babies you could have conceived naturally, it just boosts the odds a little. Anyway, it doesn't affect oneself, only one's children, so nobody actually gets a choice, and nobody's identity can be given up. One's identity isn't formed until well after birth. What you're saying doesn't even make a lick of sense.

  • Iron

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  • advanced genetic engineering would be cool but that's not what polygenic selection is. Polygenic selection just lets you roll the dice a couple times and choose the best embryo available (a typical number of embryos to choose from is, like, 5). It's the safest, babiest steps toward actual genetic engineering.

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  • maybe you can't. Try harder.

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  • speak for yourself