You show up, you put a ton of effort into a post, and at the end the comment section will tear apart some random thing that isn’t load bearing for your argument, isn’t something you consider particularly important, and whose discussion doesn’t illuminate what you are trying to communicate

Man if only LW posters knew how to use the delete key to shorten their posts to only the load bearing parts, which they consider particularly important and who’s discussion illuminates what they were trying communicate. Alas.

Counting or not counting prosecutions that end with the defendent vindicated and almost a million dollars richer?

This is worse for Ezra Klein than when he said kirk was ‘doing politics right.’

Wow this is stupendously stupid: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/its-much-easier-to-hold-computers

Willfully misses the point that systems are unaccountable, not physical devices. Yes self driving cars are covered in cameras. But we revoke the licenses of drivers every day while allowing self driving cars on the road when the same model has caused accidents for which a human driver would have their keys taken away. We fire employees much more readily than we fire SAAS vendors. And if a person had posted what Grok did I suspect they would be in custody right now.

Let’s just ignore the parts of the globe that also got raped and pillaged under colonialism and didn’t turn into moontouching superpowers I guess.

Which is both the original transhumanist cope to enable so-called consciousness upload so it’s not just copying a simulacrum of your personality to a computer while you continue to rot away

Often-missed point btw.