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  • The difference between Biden and UH's CEO is that Biden is retired, so him dying does not help stop the war in Gaza. Are you familiar with the concept of moral desert?

    I don't think like this person, because I simply hate Hitler too much, but I hope some day I can be as sensible as her:

    But some effective altruist once wrote that, if she had the option to give Hitler a nice dream — immediately before he died of suicide so it couldn’t strengthen him to commit more atrocities, and secretly so no one would be incentivized to commit the Holocaust — she would. Because she thinks it is good, all things equal, for Hitler to be happy.

  • I'm guessing you don't do 10 because you just don't wear tank-tops in general. But why on earth a bra, especially if you're ditching the panties? Don't you find it uncomfortable to decompress wearing one? Do you just have unusually uncomfortable underpants?

  • In that case, you should know that Geoff Hinton (the guy whose lab kicked off the whole AI revolution last decade) quit Google in order to warn about the existential risk of AI. He believes there's at least a 10% chance that it will kill us all within 30 years. Ilya Sutskever, his former student and co-founder of OpenAI, believes similarly, which is why he quit OpenAI and founded Safe Superintelligence (yes that basic html document really is their homepage) to help solve the alignment problem.

    You can also find popular rationalist AI pundits like gwern, acx, yudkowsky, etc. voicing similar concerns, with a range of P(doom) from low to the laughably high.

  • Yes, it can become part of one's culture to appreciate another's culture.

    I thought by adding "or whatever it's called" would make it clear that I'm aware that the theory is a racist and antijewish lie, but I guess that was not enough. How should I have worded that differently?

    What would it mean to take the time and effort to learn to play the Erhu, understand its history and context, but somehow not show real respect for it? I am asking because the first two things seem very measurable and observable things one can do, but the last one sounds like something that critics can decide arbitrarily however it suits them.

  • Christianity doesn't strike me as especially white. Not in the way that other religions strike me as being not-white. I can name some excellent musicians who are white muslims, but it's still very unusual. In contrast, Christianity is very popular among very many races. Like, if you're from south america, mexico, central or southern africa, china, russia, the philippines, and many other places too, you're very likely christian. I suppose I don't encounter many indian or arabic christians, but they aren't terribly rare either.

  • One reason I think there might be no "white culture" per se is that things that white people invent tend to spread to other people, and become part of their cultures. Like, most people I know in real life who play classical (i.e. classical western) music on piano are asian, for instance. I've never once seen a white person say, "you can't play that, because you're not white. That's offensive." In contrast, I could imagine a white person playing an erhu might be told off.

    If white people were defensive of their culture, that might change. Perhaps if the great replacement theory or whatever it's called gets taken seriously, it'd be different. (Edit: by this I mean, if those white nationalist conspiracy theorists actually think that white people are going to be erased by other cultures then they'd act in such a way. But since they don't seem to be, it seems like it's clear they're not only racist but also full of shit.)