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The problem with debunking is that it is inherently boring and an inefficient way to learn. To debunk something, first you have to explain the nonsense to the audience (which is ultimately pointless, especially if they haven't heard the misinformation before), and then you go step by step providing accurate data.

Itll always be more interesting to provide the correct accurate>!!< information in the first place, because then you can control the narrative that is used to provide the information instead of being forced to conform to the narrative of the misinformation.

A clear, non sarcastic debunk is simply 50% explaining nonsense, then 50% a list of correct information. And a list is boring. That's why all the debunkers inject personality into the debunks, because that's the only way to make it interesting and entertaining.

Thought Emporium is probably the premier creator when it comes to genetic engineering. I mean other times I've mentioned real things he's done, people thought I was being hyperbolic, but no he is actually training rat neurons to play doom, he did create custom Spider DNA to create spider silk with Yeast and he did engineer a virus to solve his lactose intolerance.

Could've been a TA, masters or PhD student, researcher, anything really lol.

Man In Canada at this point only CBC and Winnipeg Free Press are reliable news sources. The rest are all Murdoch rags.

Because they aren't doing it to control the package repo, they are doing it to score nationalism points.

This is 100% a nationalism thing. They want to be able to say we make our own operating system. That's it. It's going to be a disaster when they inevitably fuck up because they are doing g it for the wrong reasons.

Because it gives powerful people permission to do whatever they want, everyone else be damned.

Both of the two major Longtermist philophers casually dismiss climate change in their books for example (I have Toby Ord's book which is apparently basically the same as William Mckaskils book but first and better, supposedly). As if it's something that can be just solved by technology in the near future. But what if it isn't?

What if we don't come up with fusion power or something and solving climate change requires actual sacrifices that had to be made 50 years before we figured out fusion isn't going to work out. What if the biosphere actually collapses and we can't stop it. That's a solid threat to humanity.

They fr read Foundation and missed the fact that Hari Seldon's preditctions fell apart very early on and he had the benefit of magical foresight.

A major problem with longterminism is that it presumes to speak for future people who are entirely theoretical, who's needs are entirely impossible to accurately predict. It also depriorites immediate problems.

So Elon Musk is associated with Longterminism (self proclaimed). He might consider that interplanetary travel is in best interest of mankind in the future (Reasonable). As a longtermist he would then feel a moral responsibility to advance interplanetary travel technology. So far, so good.

But the sitch is that he might feel that the moral responsibility to advance space travel via funding his rocket company is far more important that his moral responsibility to safeguard the well being of his employees by not overworking them.

I mean after all yeah it might ruin the personal lives and of a hundred, two hundred, even a thousand people, but what's that compared to the benefit advancing this technology will bring to all mankind? There are going to be billions of people befitting from this in the future!

But that's not really true. Because we can't be certain that those billions of people will even exist let alone benefit. But the people suffering at his rocket company absolutely do exist and their suffering is not theoretical.

The greatest criticism of this line of thought is that it gives people, or at the moment, billionaires permission to do whatever the fuck they want.

Sure flying on a private jet is ruinous to the environment but I need to do it so I can manage my company which will create an AI that will make everything better...

Elon musk has a to thing for having many kids with women as quickly as possible. He had twins with his first wife via IVF followed by triplets with IVF (which kind of has uncomfy implications if you think about it). Then had a kid with Grimes and then another kid with her via surrogate while separated. And weeks before the surrogate kid was born he had twins with the exec he was having an affair with. It's really weird.

The London public were incredibly resistant to the idea of introducing a police force, precisely because they looked at the French Police force then and saw violence and authroitanism.

Seems it has gotten much better.