Something Funny

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    Just now, Leo Gura said:

    This is not an argument you want to make because it will apply to any human who did anything important or valuable.

    What if Leo had never existed? Some other guy would take his place.

    You can't hold that view consistently.

    But it is kind of the case for the most people, in my opinion. 

    Very few people, like you for example, are genuinely very unique and can offer unique insights about the world. But I wouldn't put billionaire CEOs in that same category. 

    And maybe it's not my place to make that kind of judgement, but then it's also not your place to judge the value of those 10 babies. Who knows what kind of value they could potentially provide to the world.

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    5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    He's rich for a reason. He provides a lot of material value to people. Don't forget that.

     

    Not saying that this is necessarily the case with Elon, but how hard is it really to keep growing your wealth if you are already very rich to begin with? You could probably provide nothing in terms of actual value and still keep getting richer and richer.

    7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Elon could murder 10 babies tomorrow on stage, and he would still have provided more net value to the world and to American society than anyone on this forum. That's the mindfuck of it that leftists do not comprehend.

    How much of it really is true and how much of it is just stage orange fantasy about being this visionary individual entrepreneur, with life purpose, and changing the world for the better. 

    What would happen if Elon never existed? Wouldn't there just be some other billionaire guy running all those companies. Or other companies doing the same thing?

    How much worse off would the world be if Elon was never born?

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    I tried to explain to a person why things are not a simple as "there are just two genders" because it seemed to me like they were genuinely asking. It just amazes me how people sometimes decide to just completely shut down and remain ignorant by choice. 

    It's like those robots from the TV show "Westworld" who were programmed to ignore certain things in order to keep believing that they are real people living in the real world. You could show them some object from the actual real world and they would just completely tune it out.

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    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Human minds do it too, but the difference is the insane scale and monopolization and rapacious greed of these AI companies. Their whole existence is based on data theft and recombination for profit. It's theft on a giga-factory scale.

    57 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    My biggest problem with it is the shamelessly greedy and morally bankrupt people who run these companies and the insane monopolization they all seek, all under the fig leaf of bettering mankind.

    I totally agree with that point of view. 

    Is there a world where you would be fine with the whole thing as long as companies would behave in a more conscious and ethical way? How would that look like in terms of actually running an AI company? Aside from external regulations.

     

    46 minutes ago, Vynce said:

    But having a solid psychoanalytical talk with a chatbot, that used some random data scrap from the internet, is a pretty good conversion for me.

    Isn't that kind of sad and depressing? What's next? Are we going to have AI tell bed time stories to our children and generate love messages to our partners?

    I can't imagine having AI replace my coach or making myself take talking to it seriously, like it's an actual real person. 

    Please don't take this personally. I mean this as a general point not a judgement of you. 

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    3 minutes ago, Ishanga said:

    I've heard of others, Chi Kung masters from China and other places, and in the Martial Art there are ppl that can do this in some similar ways..

     

    Yeah, you can add all the bullshido masters to the same category. Somehow it only ever happens based on hearsay or during their own demostrations with their own students.

    Never, in 100 years of filmmaking, a single definite proof was able to be recorded. Never, in the 30 years of the UFC's existence, did a single one of those mysterious martial artists show up and threw people around with their Chi or whatever. There are, however, plenty videos of those masters getting embarassed when somebody who isn't "IN" on their demonstration shows up.

    But I guess participating in an actual fight, or giving a real demonstration, with independent 3rd party observers would be an ego thing. That's beneath them. Turning their special powers into a business and milking them for money is fine however...

    24 minutes ago, Ishanga said:

    Mel Gibson is sketchy? How so, he's an accomplished Actor, Writer, Director which is not an easy career especially the Director part...He's for sure esoteric in a way, but he's like everyone else but has a talent that pays well if You succeed at it...

    In that same interview he said that his friends got cured from cancer with ivermectin and a fabric dye. He is also a trump supporter. I hope you can see why I find him sketchy. 

    Also, him being an actor should make you more cautious, not less. Since, you know... he is really good at acting, and by extensions, saying whatever he wants in a super believable way. Just look at the clip you've attached. Listen to his intonations, looks at his facial expressions, they are so sweet and reassuring. I just want to believe everything he tells me just by looking at him for one minute.

    And to expand on my point about sketchy people. The one time I've heard someone talk about seeing levitating yogis in real life was from my dad's friend, who is a cheater, a shady businessman, and a person with low integrity overall. Color me surprised.