TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

Aw, Hanania's a good egg, he liked my incredibly stupid case for surrogacy from a reactionary perspective with shit machine-generated illustrations

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Deep into that diatribe:

Some people's moral intuitions are that nonexistence is preferable to, or not obviously worse than, existence in a less-than-ideal setting. I wholly reject this intuition, and looking at the record of the persistence of life in the face of adversity, belong to a heritage of those who have, time and time again, rejected it. Life is Good.

What a disgustingly privileged thing to say. People have survived in shitty situations so therefore more children in poverty is axiomatically good? ~~This guy deserves poverty.~~ (edit: maybe that's a bit too far but I fucking hate this guy)

[-] grumpybozo@toad.social 1 points 6 months ago

@sinedpick @sneerclub Nah, I think don’t think he ultimately means icky children living in poverty (ewww) but rather more digital humans living in computers. Unless I’m conflating him with so many flaky/evil others.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago

In this case, the context is definitely humans being born on earth. The entire diatribe I responded to can be summed up as "People have all kinds of ethical and moral objections to surrogacy. In this post, I dismiss all of those without an argument, and instead assign positive moral value to everything that increases the number of lives, including surrogacy." It's probably one of the dumbest things I read this week.

[-] 200fifty@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

Text in AI-generated images will never not be funny to me. N the most n'tural hnertis indeed.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

mijn promptus hoorts

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago

drunk thought: I want to hear Till Lindemann singing this, in the closest manner to Mein Herz Brennt as could be managed, with as much genml bullshit strewn in for serious insanity

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

[W]hat is perhaps my most fundamental philosophical conviction is this: life is Good, human life especially so. The most natural things in the universe are death, decay, and emptiness. Growth, life, and creation are fragile anomalies. We belong to an eons-long heritage of those who have committed to building and maintaining life in the face of inevitable decay. Our duty is to do the same.

Putting aside the obvious elders of zionny subtext.. I'm an unabashed humanist and this is one of the most childishly anthropocentric things I've ever read. Death and decay are human concepts you big dummy. Sucks for you that you apparently can't imagine our universe outside of your silly meat-bound linear-time phenomenology, but do try to respect and enjoy reality instead of talking like a 1920s pulp protagonist.

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