@Mikle_Bond there's not always! not everybody will "get it", or will even care to try.
but the path should be open, clear, welcoming, encouraging, transparent to the people who might be inclined, who are many more than would get formally educated into more opaque systems.
rare photograph of #bibi and #sinwar together.
photograph of characters Lokai and Bele from Star Treak, the original series, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". see https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield_(episode)
The weird thing is that, under contemporary moral pathologies, open borders offered as refuge from vicious discrimination in a source country might be characterized as complicit accommodation of ethnic cleansing. Refusing refuge might, as Egypt's Sisi put it, be characterized as necessary to prevent "liquidation" of their cause, assertion of their rights at home.
#HaroldMeyerson on why US choices a century ago sit at the roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. https://prospect.org/world/2024-05-06-who-created-israel-palestine-conflict/
@djc i think the scenario here is drifting away without the sharp pain of visibly dying. so even if a loved one one actively engages with will (at least for a little while) be hard to simulate, loved ones who reply eventually to mails and messages, even answer the phone, but don’t talk long, stay distant, might be harder to distinguish from the real thing. the goal is just (false) proof of life, to pass a turing test wellness check, not actively take over a person’s relationships.
@LesterB99 but would people who otherwise might be deterred from planning plan? are you saying a person would already have your be so motivated that nothing would deter them? what if it’s not so hard, if letting your avatar “sub” for you becomes a pretty normal thing?
@mycrowgirl yeah. masking is hard work! but it can perhaps be automated. suicide is unethical for the damage it does to those left behind. but gently fading from an in-person human to an avatar of occasional digital interaction is normal now, what we do to one another all the time. if the former can be masked as the latter, is it still as unethical?
when you can simulate a self so well even loved ones can’t tell it isn’t you, what’s that going to do to the suicide rate?
is mid cringe or basic? (surely it's not based.)
Text: The rigor and exactitude of social sciences offer real advantages, but it is easy to overstate them. Social science is quantitative, precise, analytically sophisticated — and thus seems far superior to the educated guesswork of drawing lessons from history. Yet the models of social science are quantifiable and analytically manipulable only because of their reductionism — that is, because of all they leave out. The model is not reality: its relationship to reality is analogical. Accordingly, when we are presented with two different models that yield very different conclusions, how do we determine which is the better fit to current circumstances? In exactly the same way that we decide whether this or that historical precedent is more relevant — by judging which analogy is the more apt. Social science provides us with new concepts and new techniques as the basis for making analogies, but ultimately the best social scientists, like the best historians, practice the art of developing, refining, and exhibiting well-informed good judgment.
in my cultural revolution there are snuggle sessions.
they say money doesn’t buy happiness, but very wealthy people seem a lot more excited to fund research into longterm life extension than the rest of the population.
Vila @llimllib's essential notes: "A really lovely, well presented table of all the unicode characters" https://symbl.cc/en/unicode-table/#basic-latin
the buried lede is we are one step closer to human-like AI. the bots have figured out how to shit.
from @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/
"The delay in the use of puberty-blockers is presented as a precautionary concern over irreversible change, but it looks a lot like a desire to preserve childhood innocence by paradoxically embracing puberty." #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/05/zones-of-interest.html
so next month begins the summer of love, right?
@FlashMobOfOne You too! Pleasure to chat, agreement isn’t everything!