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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
22h ago“When someone who hurt you badly needs your care, what inside you decides how much you still owe them?”
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Natalism
The natalism debate often sounds like four different conversations happening in the same room. One group looks at declining birth rates and sees a long-term civilizational challenge.... What the Pope said on AI, and where it leaves us
Last month Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's about artificial intelligence, and what it might be doing to our sense of being human.... - KC...
AI Safety and Acceleration
I love AI. I use it daily and it’s changed what I’m capable of. So I’m not coming at this from fear. But loving something doesn’t mean being blind to it. The people warning about existential risk aren’t wrong to worry — they’re just possibly aiming at the wrong target.... - Michaels706...
- onok, not to be a downer or start a fight or offend anyone , I just would like to ask if anyone here has thoughts on the global political scene. I am 58 and have never given two fucks about politics because I just always knew it was a joke, a scam, a game being run on the people. But the moves lately have caught my attention. Yet, I do not watch TV at all. for almost 10 years. Because it is an tool used to control perception and thereby behavior. And I like to be free from control. I have some very radical beliefs, but I am always interested in learning how other people feel and think about their life. I know I am intelligent enough to believe I do not know everything and also that every belief I have now has been expanded from something that came before it so all of my beliefs are subject to be expanded. so if you engage with me be prepared to not take anything I say as something I expect you to adapt to. I have strong feelings, radical beliefs, and I would love seeing if anyone else is fed up with the entire system as I am. 🤸🤸🤸🌼by
So you wish to complicate the binary by what? Disagreeing with me? I am not suggesting a universal moral code. I'm suggesting that we don't have to make the world a worse place. For anyone. I'm seeing an assumption in your post. That I am an idealist.... - onok, not to be a downer or start a fight or offend anyone , I just would like to ask if anyone here has thoughts on the global political scene. I am 58 and have never given two fucks about politics because I just always knew it was a joke, a scam, a game being run on the people. But the moves lately have caught my attention. Yet, I do not watch TV at all. for almost 10 years. Because it is an tool used to control perception and thereby behavior. And I like to be free from control. I have some very radical beliefs, but I am always interested in learning how other people feel and think about their life. I know I am intelligent enough to believe I do not know everything and also that every belief I have now has been expanded from something that came before it so all of my beliefs are subject to be expanded. so if you engage with me be prepared to not take anything I say as something I expect you to adapt to. I have strong feelings, radical beliefs, and I would love seeing if anyone else is fed up with the entire system as I am. 🤸🤸🤸🌼byccsweb3...
- DrRobert...
The fact that we have come to this point is a moral failure of our leaders and those with money based power. Our 1st trillionaire could have been giving this money to good and needy causes long ago, He could have been investing the people of this planet rather than increasing his... What would civilizational purpose actually mean?: Effective altruists
The most important century Run the numbers and one fact dwarfs the rest: if humanity survives, the overwhelming majority of all people who will ever live are still ahead of us — trillions of lives, across deep time. That single observation reorganizes everything.... How scared should we be of AI?: Human dignity concerns
In 1267, Thomas Aquinas argued that the human intellect’s capacity to grasp universals — not this triangle but triangularity, not this act of courage but courage itself — requires a power transcending the particular matter doing the understanding.... - 12Kattbox...
- TayrenB...
It would not provide an objective assessment. If a person, such as oneself, were to assess the action even based on well-established rules, then the assessment would be subjective.... Where is the line between accountability and mob rule?: Restoration advocates
After the machine is done Nobody talks about what happens next. The crowd moves on. The platform moves on. The person does not move on. They are sitting in a room that used to contain a career, a reputation, a set of relationships that defined how they understood themselves in... - Staci...
When is distrusting institutions the rational move?: The Story
The vial, the pill, the priest February 5, 2003. Colin Powell held up a vial of white powder at the United Nations and told the world Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The New York Times published it. Congress authorized the invasion. The weapons were never found.... - Jack Burke...
If moral is defined as a set of good or bad actions or any other binary judgement system, then it can be shown by measuring the amount of actions falling in those two buckets and once measured progress or regress can be shown.... Is moral progress real?: Dialecticians
The declaration and the guillotine August 26, 1789. The French National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Seventeen articles. Liberty, property, security.... Is moral progress real?: Power analysts
Six words the celebrations skipped January 31, 1865. The House passed the Thirteenth Amendment. The galleries erupted. One hundred fifty years later, the documentary 13th opened with the amendment’s text and held on six words: "except as a punishment for crime." Convict leasing... Is moral progress real?: Progress realists
The chart nobody believes In 1950, roughly 60 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty. By 2015, under 10 percent. Hans Rosling spent his last decade showing audiences this chart and watching their faces.... Is moral progress real?: The Story
The arc bent, and then it bent back In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. William Wilberforce wept in the gallery....