Never donate if you don't have the money. You can put a imaginary bill in an imaginary jar and turn those imaginary bills in real ones once you get better off.

Thanks for caring but care for yourself first.

I kinda like the depiction of a man, visually disconnected to life and focused on wealth/social norms, asking for the meaning of life from a guru instead of seeking out his own meaning, highlighting the consumer/capitalist mindset of the man in suit. And the guru is taking advantage of the flaws of the man to radicalize him and eventually making bringing death the meaning of the man's life. Assuming the man is American, potentially even bringing his own death.

The perversion of life itself in the society that we all know too well.

People who joke like that are disgusting.

I don't care who you are, if your best option is suicide, we failed you and we should be sorry.

Not really. It is the tolerance paradox.

Banning slavery might be authoritarian but it is less authoritarian than allowing it. So on the political scale, banning slavery is anti-authoritarian and allowing it is authoritarian.

I think it is a bit unfair to give you shit for your question.

it is normal to confuse authoritarian system with restrictions of freedom. Because generally that is how it works. But not in this case...

Because it is the paradox of tolerance all over again. Technically it is authoritarian to ban slavery but it would be more authoritarian to allow it as people would own people... So on the scale of how authoritarian an action is, banning slavery is as anti-authoritarian as it gets and allowing slavery is as authoritarian as it gets. (Of course, a world without slavery and without any rules would be less authoritarian but... I think we know better than trying that with slavery)

I hope this helps in actually understanding the reason instead of being told what it is.

Vanilla might not be good in a lot of things... Ice cream... Se... But here it is pretty nice!

You could easily create that meme for the tolerance paradox. Just saying

Jk rolling made some really strange decisions. Some of it really makes you wonder if maybe she was being a little too honest or just too unaware to see the implications.

Yeah! But to be fair, it kinda works in the reverse too

Aren't you misunderstanding my point a little bit? My point isn't that the e.g. us should ban TikTok or that national security is the most important thing ever. My first Point was that there is a national security incentive to ban TikTok in ways that e.g. Facebook doesn't have, but like you expressed obviously there are other consideration to be made. My first Point was just that TikTok is not like Facebook from an us national security pov. Then you spoke from a ban for service members, to which I simply pointed out that there is one to some degree, especially important as there is a ban on private devices in some environments. Deployment can be reason for the ban. In other words, your suggestion is already in place to some degree. My 2nd point about Russian propaganda is also strictly about the fact that "national security" doesn't end at the government employee line and suggesting that is ridiculous.

As you might have realized, I haven't expressed any desire to ban TikTok. That is because I am not in favor of a ban. I am just able to argue a perspective unlike mine own and think it is necessary when people treat Facebook and TikTok the same. Do you think china doesn't care about where their software is coming from? Do you think no one is avoiding e.g. check point firewall due to e.g. gil shwed and his story with unit 8200?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_United_States#:~:text=In%20January%202020%2C%20the%20United,platform%20to%20attract%20young%20people.

Well look at that. And no, that isn't enough from a military perspective. Look at the Russian propaganda war in e.g. Germany, that shit can have a negative effect on the defensive abilities of a nation.

Because it isn't new nor special.

Apps are a Service and services have been and are regulated for decades now and the system have been always arbitrary as fuck.

In the case of TikTok, the west, as a military alliance, should be concerned due to the nature of current valid Chinese laws and the implications of it.

And e.g. facebook has proven that they don't like to stick to rules about how to handle data. In case of TikTok, this could easily have bigger implications for e.g. the American military.

Yeah that's a stereotype. Some many brilliant people and somehow the fuck ups (not the people but their fuck ups) generate all the attention. I didn't think of that stereotype and was curious. But seriously blaming a (maybe even a fresh)PhD for being bad at coding is both fair and unfair but no peer review is not on them.

I don't like cryptic message like this, especially if the repo seems to be gone

I believe so and that would render you (or anyone) unable to tell the difference between ai and "true" ai

Qualia is, if I am not mistaken, totally subjective. My argument is that how could you tell that a computer doesn't have qualia and prove to me that you have qualia. While I wouldn't limit it to qualia. What can you detect in other people that an ai couldn't replicate? Because as long as they are able to replicate all these qualities, you can't tell if an ai is "true" or not, as it might have those qualities or might just replicate them.

The difference between "ai" and "true ai" is as vague as it gets. Are you a true intelligent agent? Or just a "intelligent agent"? Like seriously how are you different to a machine with inputs and outputs and a bunch of seemingly "random" things happening in-between

These cases should get an extra punishment. A petty extra. you destroyed public property out of petty feelings, petty extra, especially if there was alternative easier and less damaging way to satisfy the petty feelings.

I mean the blog post says

"If you are a student at university, a scientist, engineer, or mathematician you should really try to ask the original author what they meant because strong juxtaposition is pretty common in academic circles, especially if variables are involved like in $a/bc$ instead of numbers."

It doesn't say scientific but...

I feel like if a blog post presents 2 options and labels one as the "scientific" one... And it is a deserved Label. Then there is probably a easy case to be made that we should teach children how to understand scientific papers and solve the equation in it themselves.

Honestly I feel like it reads better too but that is just me