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It’s your job to prove your assertion that we know enough about cognition to make reasonable comparisons.

This is pretty much all that’s needed. The language in the block is identified via a name that follows the opening triple backtick. E.g.:

python some carefully indented code

Libcaca renderer for Metro Exodus would be… intriguing.

“Private” in “virtual private network” means “routed by different rules”. It’s the same “private” that’s in “private Internet Protocol addresses”.

It was never about personal privacy.

That doesn’t address the previous claim in any manner.

Robots also do exactly what you tell them to.

She specifically said “training”, which on its own immediately goes against whatever insane ideology you’re selling.

Either by making it segfault or you don’t.

I got a whole software developer career going out of my attempts to exit vim.

Because living felt better in the past.

That’s the root of conservatism. And yeah, it does devolve to “my dick wasn’t limp, my tits didn’t sag, my knees didn’t hurt, and I was ignorant enough to not see the problems I see clearly now”.

It’s not about morality, it’s about having a damn clue. Shared traumas matter.

Ann Lecke’s “Imperial Radch” does happen in multiple locations, but revolves primarily around people relationships and de-genders English language for a delightful effect.

Peter Watts will make you learn a lot of words and concepts, will have you read author notes at the end of his books, and will have you take a look at the list of scientific literature used in writing said books. Main overarching topic - consciousness might not be as central to intelligence as we default to thinking it to be.

Charles Stross’ books can take you into space, but are hardly about space or new worlds. Hell, the most space travel heavy book of his I read - Neptune's Brood - explores the ideas of money and debt.

Greg Egan’s everything, but there are two that I immediately remember when I think about his bibliography. “Diaspora” explores weird space times, consciousness bootstrapping, and problems of communication. “Orthogonal” trilogy is “math of spacetime: what could be” as a novel.

Cory Doctorow explores problems of identity and privacy. Start with “Little brother” (yes, it is a 1984 reference) and “Down and out in the Magic kingdom” and expand further.

John Meaney’s “Nulapeiron sequence” is an easy read that builds its world alongside shedding its main character ignorance.

I believe it was advertised as a trilogy before the third book got published. And frankly, third book is written as the final book of a trilogy. The newer books should’ve been a separate saga, and there’s a chance that they were initially planned as such.

I’ll also point out you are basically resorting to a “whataboutism” argument.

That explains… a lot. I apologize for wasting your time.

It is in the nature of power. Reducing this to a particular economic system is nearsighted.

Every social system with a power dynamic (i.e. a system with two or more people in it) is vulnerable to power abuse. Power blinds, blindness strips powerful of perspective, decisions made without good information drunk-walk towards ruin.

The only common thing is the fact that it’s the average Jane who suffers first and whose rage ends up counteracting the ruin.

The article doesn’t back up your statement.

What it does say is that:

• brushing teeth regularly is important
• brushing teeth when enamel is weakened by acidity is destructive
• breakfasts foods tend to be acidic (well, acidity raises after a meal in general)

And with this it reaches the conclusion that brushing your teeth before breakfast is safer than brushing right afterwards, and is more likely to become a routine than if you wait 30-60 minutes after your first meal. It even ends up with:

Brushing in the morning, whenever you’re able to do it, is still better than skipping brushing your teeth at all.

And if you’re from a country where visiting a dentist is affordable, you have probably heard an additional advice - visit a dentist for a checkup and a professional cleaning at least twice a year.

Not that it’s untranslatable, but I enjoy it quite a lot.

Поцілуй бузька в калатало - go kiss a stork on the knocker.

If you ever heard storks, you’ll recognize the dismissiveness of this statement.