Does only direct sensory input count, or does experience mediated through tools count? How much do you or I really know about the Oort Cloud?

They also can be massaged for financial incentives when controlled by private corporations, which can result in prioritizing things other than truth, much like humans.

This applies just as well to other humans as it does AI. It's overly-broad to the point of meaninglessness.

The insight doesn't illuminate.

So any and all human communication is divination in your book?

I think your point is pretty silly. You're falling into a common trap of starting with the premise "I don't like AI", and then working backwards from that to pontification.

This is philosophically valid, but also has the advantage of being how moral systems are actually constructed in practice.

By snarled mess of state, I don't just mean the way it works on first install, I mean the bundle of mud that imperatively managing a system inevitably turns into, with bits of this and that config left behind.

Try playing around with a few different window managers to feel the pain. NixOS makes it easy to try out new config and revert to the old config without muss or fuss.

NixOS or something very much like it is the future. I personally won't go back to the snarled mess of state that is traditional distros like Ubuntu.

There's a reason for the quote "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company".

Replace "idiots" with "Nazis" for enlightenment.

> Trans people are not beating up [cis] women in sports.

This is plainly false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallon_Fox#Mixed_martial_arts_...

> During Fox's fight against Tamikka Brents on September 13, 2014, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head in the 1st round. After her loss, Brents took to social media to convey her thoughts on the experience of fighting Fox: "I've fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can't answer whether it's because she was born a man or not because I'm not a doctor. I can only say, I've never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right", she stated. "Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn't move at all in Fox's clinch."

There's more examples here, but can we both agree that your statement is incorrect?

You almost understand the truth. Forcing people into strict gender roles based on social mores is bad. Men can wear dresses and women can wear pants, etc. What I hope you'll understand is that just because you don't follow gender stereotypes doesn't mean you can change your sex. A man taking cross-sex hormones and getting surgery is still a man. Let's not sell him the lie that he will ever be a woman. Let's enlighten him that he should live his life and engage in as many masculine or feminine activities as he sees fit.

Denying simple biological reality will get us more fascism. It's not the entire reason, but it's easy to whip people up about trans issues when you literally have men beating up women in sports. Your average person will never accept that, and that's something you just need to accept because you can't change it.

Note that I said "partially responsible". The fundamental reason is that the DNC doesn't give a shit about the working class and rejects actual leftist ideals, but trying to push unpopular social issues on top of that just killed their chances.

Some day, we'll arrive at a happy medium of "trans women are not women but that's fine and let them live their lives in peace".

There's more cases, but if we can't agree on ground truth in such an obvious case then there probably won't be common ground for calculating statistics.

If you want to argue for not segregating prisons by sex, then you should just state that. If that ever happens you'll quickly find out how terrible of an idea it is.

Tremaine Carroll is a good example of why we need to stop coddling people's feelings on this.

> Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views > > Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes? > > Con: LOL no...no not those views > > Me: So....deregulation? > > Con: Haha no not those views either > > Me: Which views, exactly? > > Con: Oh, you know the ones

"Oh no, I keep getting kicked out of places for throwing around neonazi references"

Well, don't be a shithead and that won't happen