[-] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago

If I wasn't a slave constantly in fear of malnourishment, illness, homelessness, police violence, jail and/or pain, I might not care so much.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The inherent (and problematic) implication in this concern is that there's a 'good' way to evolve and a 'bad' way. While technology and medicine massively relieves biological pressures, some genetics diseases can be entirely managed, and more people are surviving to procreate, what we'll see in the medium-long term is a major uptick in genetic diversity, some people will be massively reliant on technology, some won't.

As we hopefully know by now, genetic diversity is a Good Thing (tm). As it increases, so will we as a species have more disease resistance, be able to fill more niches, we'll have a wider scope of bodies and brain patterns to have new and cool thoughts etc. I do think cultural and social pressures on sexual selection could be problematic, rather than a good thing, but that'll entirely depend on how society goes.

Though honestly, I think it's overwhelmingly certain that we'll have the capability to alter human genetics on a large scale before any of modern evolutionary pressures become relevant. If you accept that, then the whole discussion becomes rather moot.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The association of the internet with mass amounts CSAM or Terrorist information. It's a line that governments have been pushing ever since the internet evolved from 'weird invention' to 'vague sense of threat to the integrity of nationstates'.

Are these real problems that need addressing? Absolutely. Though on a much smaller scale than gets exclaimed. And rather than the priority being hunting down perpetrators, the effort almost exclusively goes into shutting down or bugging any server that law enforcement's whim decides. The reality is that with end-to-end encryption, most "real" criminals on the internet will be entirely unaffected, while the created laws are instead mostly used for political censorship, the 'war on drugs', etc.

As a line, it's pretty much used to justify every act of censorship, privacy invasion, and restriction on the internet that satisfies a government's awful interests.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

To be honest, I found 5e is so massively oversimplified it's boring. Maybe I didn't play enough to comb through books of niche rules or something.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Assuming people are using words in the way they are widely and commonly accepted to mean (I mean, just look at Wikipedia for an easy starting point) is not a bad thing?

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