Originally posted by Zanick
For most people living in the first world, there is no good, rational defense to continue supporting the holocaust of animals. Discuss.
It tastes good and it's easy to get. Good and rational explanation right there.
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Keanu learned to shoot like a pro for the movies and that's pretty rad.
It's literally a movie series about a guy going on a rampage because some asshole murdered his puppy though. I don't know what you were expecting aside from well shot, gratuitously violent action scenes.
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Originally posted by Lanny
See the issue with the intentionality/enjoyment aspect is that it seems to commit you to the opposite case not being true. Consider a man who gives out handjobs for money. He doesn't enjoy it, but he's still jerking off dudes. Most people would consider such a dude at least somewhat gay. So enjoyment can't be the exclusive homo-test.
Gay for pay doesn't make you gay. Every boy who's ever been homeless knows this. 🤗
It's shameful because you're doing gay shit, but that doesn't make you gay. The act is gay, you're being forced by circumstance. Kinda like how being raped by a dude isn't gay unless you enjoy it. Gay for pay is like being raped by circumstance. As a communist I figured you'd understand that prostitution is rape via capitalism.
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Originally posted by netstat
self driving cars will only be reasonably safe once all cars on the road drive themselves
I have no faith that we'll ever develop AI that can respond adequately to spontaneous erratic irrational human judgement and behaviour
I don't think we'll ever develop AI that can behave spontaneously, erratically, irrationally, or emulate human-like judgement and behavior (a poorly behaved AI is still behaving rationally and in line with its coding so there's nothing really erratic about it aside from the stupid ass meat idiot not expecting that result). But I have no doubt in my mind that we could develop an AI which responds to those things faster/better than any human could. Especially insofar as it related to driving, which really boils down to avoiding being hit/hitting things. Even in the case of the ethical shit like making a choice of WHAT/WHO to hit if doing so somehow becomes unavoidable, it's still just going to be doing what some guy/think tank decided it should do after agonizing about it for an eternity vs what an irrational, erratic, spontaneous human would judge to do in a split second. Any moment to moment decision an AI makes is going to be informed by hours of human foresight. Any decision a human makes in those situations is going to be made with, at best, instinctual/reflexive self preservation guiding it (I was going to say "in mind", but that implies some kind conscious thought going into a split second decision and humans can't do that unless they agonize about it and program an AI to make the decision when it happens).
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Hell, even dreams are just as real as reality once reality and dreams are both in the past. And I like dreaming more than I like being awake a lot of the time too. In dreams... in dreams...
Good works of fiction are just dreams with less immersion, and the ultimate goal of any storyteller is probably to approach a dreamlike immersion with their work. Fiction, dreams, reality they're all just memories. Whether or not those memories leave a tangible trace in this reality has little value to me.
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Anything tangible... anything real you accomplish is just as ultimately impermanent as anything done in a video game. 10000 years from now what I did in WoW tonight will matter just as much as every meaningful thing you've done in your entire life. Everything stops existing eventually. If permanence determines value, you might as well hop on the nihilist hype train to hell now and be done with it because nothing has value by that metric.
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Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer........................................................................ (banned)
as soon as the power goes off it never existed
It exists in here.
Having fond memories of the time I slew a dragon and founded a kingdom is far more enjoyable than having memories of the time I... what... fixed up a shitty old beater car to keep me occupied instead? Did taxes? Filed paperwork? Fixed a clogged toilet? Sculpted a monument out of human shit and called it art? These are all things that are "real" which seem far less meaningful than the things which are not. I don't really enjoy social activities so I don't value hanging out with friends or whatever normies find meaningful either. Which leaves me with my stories - books, tv, movies, games. The only productive thing I'd have any interest in doing is storytelling (ie creating the worlds I enjoy more than this one), but I've no talent for it so here we are. Vidya.
PS: Nothing that happens on this forum is real either. Why post here? It's all just words on a screen accomplishing nothing, that disappear the moment Lanny or the FBI wills it or when the power goes out or whatever.
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