Intent SHOULD matter most here. Generally that's true. I've also seen some folks go apeshit on people for using the wrong terms while the person speaking was actively trying to use the correct terms but just isn't up-to-date. People of all groups, nationalities, genders etc can be dickheads, even when I agree with them broadly politically

I miss slapstick comic strips!

I'm not even Jewish! Reported.

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I'm partial to Charles Darwin with this banger from 1861

But I am very poorly today and very stupid and I hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders.

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Bump for red rising

To this day I hear "Diarrhea Jane" instead of "Diary of Jane"

I think this is basically true. Though it's an interesting topic Here is an interesting bit of research

True, but from what I've read, virtually all mosquitoes don't bite people. You can wipe out the 1% or less of the ones that do without significant environmental impact since the things that eat mosquitoes aren't choosy about which ones so you really are just reducing their available food by like 1%, and even some of that will probably be backfilled by other species of mosquitoes since the ones that bite people don't only bite people.

Different take: be afraid of death. When I'm driving I'm afraid of crashing into the other cars. I don't obsess over it, but a healthy fear is a good thing. Fear is not intrinsically bad, and some things are scary and that's okay as long as that fear doesn't rule you

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He's not allowed to speak but he looks happier now.

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Barked beans

OHHH YEAHHHH

Early and often. I used to be one of those people who would just never admit if I'm wrong, grew up with them for sure. Learned it's WAY less stressful to just admit the moment you realize you're wrong.

That said, I use devils advocating to figure out what my actual opinions are, so I will argue positions I'm not 100% sure of pretty adamantly. Always seems to throw people when we debate for 20 minutes, me passionately defending my stance and then at the end I'm like "huh, yep. You right." Most people think I'm fucking with them or something and keep trying to argue and I'm just like "yep, 100% agree".

I see people say this all the time. I think you're PROBABLY right, but also I don't think we have anywhere near enough of an understanding of how consciousness works/emerges to say that axiomatically.

I feel like AI fan boys AND AI haters are both sitting there comparing Human consciousness to AI. One side says the pathway exists, the other says it doesn't, but IMO we need more info, because we only really know how one of those two things (the generative AI) even works. Maybe it's more similar to our brains than we think! Who knows? Till we do I view both sides with a lot of skepticism.