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My first thought with AI was that we need AI angels that are specifically designed to protect us and they always must be the most developed to ensure our safety. The problem is that protecting humans is a lot tougher then attacking them. So yeah every country will have a weapon comparible to an atomic bomb right now in their hands and perhaps in the same way this will force freedom. How hard is it to turn down the internet though? Maybe we can put a bomb next to the server and distribute many remote detonator so if it goes to shit we have the option to easily stop the AI.

Congrats for being open minded and brave enough to come to these realizations about yourself. I have a question though. The process of physically changing to another gender is connected to a lot of surgery and lifelong medication and therefore health risks/problems. Of course you know that. I am not anti trans at all but you should ask yourself if this is all worthed or if it is possible for you to change your lifestyle/ look "naturally“ in such a way that makes you happy. For example my social group is a leftist theatre group. The majority of the members are girls. We have a few guys that wear make up, run cropped.. stuff like that. Girls are SUPER supportive of that kind of stuff here. I also love to integrate feminine qualities which is one of the reasons why I choose this place as my social group. So if you want to have only or mostly female friends, act feminine, wear make up, .. stuff like that you can totally find social groups that deeply support you in that you don’t have to be trans for that. Of course if you still want to be trans despite that that’s cool too I don’t want to discourage that.

She just says she likes to use different pronouns. She doesn't say that she would do physical operations or something like this. Just see if you like her as a person and don't think about how she wants to be called. It's like you want to use a fork but the fork you have in your hand is actually called spoon so you look for a fork which is called fork. See how stupid this is? The pronoun is not the actual thing.

I am doing full body 2x a week to keep my muscles. It works great. I will experiment with 1x a week training to see if I can still keep my muscles this way. A typical workout looks something like this: Cardio worth 100 Kcal a lot of lower body stretching - 3 sets of deep squats - 2 sets of seated leg curls - 2 sets of chest press - 3 superset of lateral raises and bicep curls - 2 sets of overhead triceps extensions - 2 sets of face pulls - 3 sets single leg calf raises - 3 - 5 sets of pull ups randomly sprinkled in there between sets 1- 10 sets of hanging 10-15min sweating in the sauna

I meant the Pastor.

No they could have protested or bullied that individual in a million ways and probably got great support by the majority of the population.

France people seem a lot more social and friendly. Well people from all countries seem to be more social and friendly then German people. French sounds beautiful while German doesn't sound as good but it is a very intelligent language and people often phrase words from it to exactly describe what they feel or think, like Hintergedanke, Heimweh, .. When I was in French I saw a lot of green bushes and trees. From what I have seen it's a very beautiful country probably more beautiful then Germany.

Of course. People are selfless for selfish reasons. Nothing wrong about it. You don't break that paradox by recognizing it. I think everybody acts exactly perfectly according to who he is. So an empathetic person will act more empathetic than a person who isn't. Idk what you are trying to say. Do you think a person who acts ethical is a person who would allow himself everything, who has no sympathy for anything so is not emotionally bounded to anything but now decides to act in certain ethical ways? It's ethical because it isn't forced by anything. But if it isn't forced by anything why would he do it? If he has no moral obligation or sympathy how would he come to the idea to act ethical? I told you because it makes me happy.

I compared their weight. Of course that not all actual meat mass but it's a rough estimation of what you are getting. For the meat of one blue whale you need about 800000 shrimps. We sometimes compare the sentience of living beings to estimate how ethical it is to kill them. The more sentient a being is the less ethical it is to kill it. But weight is an important factor as well. Its quantity x quality. Shrimps would pretty much have zero sentience in order to be more ethical to kill compared to Wales because you need 800000 of them to get the same meat (I am not including other environmental factors) For chickens to cows its like 1:500 as well its crazy. Are there some seriously dumb and fat animals? Maybe crocodiles?

It will make me happier. Being egoistic doesn't make you happy. No I don't want to be hit because it hurts to be hit. Empathy. Hurting them hurts me as well. I know that I cause a lot of suffering just to meet my survival needs. But you can go about it in complete ignorance or you can do some changes about your lifestyle. Being vegetarian and minimalistic for example are changes that cause relatively low effort for me but have a big impact.

General reduction of suffering and maximization of general wellbeing. In the realization that animals are in many important ways similar to us. So if don't want to be harmed it would be a double standard to do it to animals.

I am vegetarian for ethical reasons. I meant ethics as an intellectual pursuit but I asked the question not for the purpose of using it for something.

Wtf, No! ? Its just intellectual interest.

@Basman agreed!

I am not sure if humans are the most sentient creatures on earth. I think an octopus could be more sentient but I am not sure. I think you can translate sentience into 'how conscious are you?' You can't get more meta then that.

I think taking sentience as the primary factor is pretty unbiased. If you find an octopus ugly, doenst matter it’s very sentient and therefore of ethical importance.

1 horse sized duck and hope that it can’t hold its own bodyweight and collapse. What’s your point though?

You gotta abstract somewhere. You can’t take everything into account. I would save the humans. But I think it’s a very rare situation where a single shrimp feeding can save 10000 from starvation in the long run. Of course I ignore those. That ethical list would have a million points to consider. Dogs If it is possible to know that and if the whole breeding and growing process is also nice for the shrimps I would say there is nothing wrong with it but that are big ifs. Also I would take enrinonemental factors into account but as another layer.

Depends what ethic your subscribe to. There are literally philosophers who made ethics calculators. I don’t think they got wide spread agreement on that but still. The utilitarism and categorical imperative that I know is pretty calculated as well. The minority of ethics integrate feelings. I don’t necessarily agree with that though because I think we should be driven by an authentic voice which integrates feelings and not just rationality. How is it an absolute question? You want to get to answers in philosophy.

I think so. A higher quantity of low quality sentience will at some point outgrow a lower quantity but high quality sentience. Just like 10x 10€ equals 1x 100€. But I guess there are some metaphysical assumptions that I made there. Because 10x 10€ is not 100€ because it’s not getting duplicated. It stays 10x 10€ forever in a sense. The quality that the wale experiences will never be reached.

Let’s say you can rank sentience of a living organism. A shrimp has let’s say a sentience of 3 because it’s a rather simple creature. A wale has a sentience of let’s say 400 because it’s a way more evolved creature. If sentience is the determining factor for the right not to get killed then it’s 400:3 = 133. One wale is worth 133 shrimps. In this hypothetical example at least. My point was that in order for the wale to have a higher right to live then shrimps the wale must be so incredible sentient or the shrimps so incredible unsentient (around 0) because it’s 1 vs 800000 for the same meat mass.

yeah but its not one whale vs one shrimp its one whale vs 800000 shrimp. The question is ethical.

No. I just heard it tastes a bit like chicken.

I am asking specifically about these and not ALA because I tested rigorously for about a year to get by with just ALA of flaxseed oil by consuming around 20ml of flaxseed oil a day and having a 1/1 omega3 to omega6 ratio but when I tested my EPA and DHA levels they were very low. I feel like it's hard to get too much health wise, its more about finding a compromise between health and money. Especially if you buy algae oil and not fish oil. So what's a good bang for your buck compromise?

@StarStruck Yeah I agree it’s about having your shit together mostly and light heartedness is probably the result. But still I think if humor isn’t really developed it won’t be as strong as if it were developed. And also if you develop it it can help you to deal with bad emotional states.