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  • That's always understandable. I think the bigger picture here is that we sometimes forget that they're all humans, not just public figures. They have other thoughts and opinions that aren't curated for the world.

    Plus, Sagan's era didn't have Internet. People weren't sharing with the world every single fucking thought that came out of their head. I'm sure we would've heard Sagan say some dumb shit here and there if he had to produce today's world's kind of content.

  • Oh yeah, the presence of this particular mindset is a lot more prevalent here on Lemmy, unfortunately. I call it the "Russian troll farm mentality." Frankly, I find disingenuousness is less discomforting than outright delusion, because it means they know they're full of shit. The delusional are just depressing.

  • There's an important distinction. Pence was just an old school Republican who spent most of his career when they were still sane pieces of shit. They picked him because he was an actual politician to lend credibility to the crazy.

    And ultimately, the dude chose country over party. We can give the guy shit for tons of stuff, but he still made the right call at the end of it.

    Couch fucker was specifically chosen because he's none of those things. Which is way, way worse.

  • On the flip side, there's no reason to assume an artificial intelligence will share the same priorities as a human being.

    https://airesourcelab.com/paperclip-maximizer/

    I'm not fearmongering AI here (I, for one, welcome our future ai overlords). But we don't really escape the issues of ethics with artificial intelligences. They're still intelligent.