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    Gender Roles

    As I stated before, regardless of intent, when conservatives "satirize", it generally ends up being a gish-gallop of straw men. Such "satire" simply fails to be satirical at all, and falls on its face as propaganda. There's nothing funny or satirical about it. It's just a straight up lie at...
  2. J

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I think you misunderstand how LLMs do language. The thing is chatGPT doesn't actually speak English the way people do. It doesn't really know how to spell, because the whole concept of words as constructions of letters and sounds is foreign to it, unless you walk it through a particular...
  3. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    You lean on a false dichotomy, though I'll leave Gospel to explain it to you if you fail to figure it out and correct yourself :)
  4. J

    1000 Questions In Reasoning

    It's not. It's more a test of "neurotypical thinking".
  5. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    Arguably rape babies, or fear of them, abound. Also there's the question of physical ability to force and perpetrate the act. Then, I don't see how I haven't already answered that with my point about actually requiring substantive transition or your point of taking real measures to actually...
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    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Will is not "affixed" until it has been (note the present tense) determined by the antecedents. The program is not written until I write it, and when it is written, it has been written by me. It is not "patently absurd" to note "it came in that moment from me". If I have a city on the border...
  7. J

    Gender Roles

    Satires go both ways, though. Yes, it's pretty obvious that there's a satire there, however it's a satire presented such that it strongly appears to be mockery of the idea of gender at all. I gathered it as a satirical mockery of the idea that gender has biological realities, like a conservative...
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    Breakdown In Civil Order

    Not to mention that it would be useful to demonstrate whether or not this person is hormonally transitioning, and/or being rendered sterile, and/or being strictly physically segregated for their lack of either of those things. Either way, I do think that rapists/sex criminals should be placed...
  9. J

    Breakdown In Civil Order

    I would also like to see even the slightest bit of evidence that there is anyone housed in such an estate that hasn't undergone a hormonal transition; I keep saying though that if people don't want unserious transition in the prisons, they could just support and call on their legislatures to...
  10. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Even if the will is predictable, it doesn't matter, because a prediction is ONLY prediction and the prediction itself can influence the result as long as it's visible: you couldn't predict the future to me where I kill my father and fuck my mother because I would die before I killed and fucked...
  11. J

    1000 Questions In Reasoning

    For me, this mostly just applies to "next number in sequence" or "nth in sequence" type questions. "There is a function from the natural numbers to any countable sequence of numbers".
  12. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    That's the problem here, I think: you don't realize that "the special will" that is "the will to make decisions for yourself" specifically excludes the influence of internal conditions by its very nature. Those internal conditions cannot constrain that will, because the will being discussed by...
  13. J

    How should west respond to potential (likely) Russian invasion of Ukraine?

    Putin stooge says say nyet?
  14. J

    NJ Dems Racketeering: Norcross Bros FINALLY charged

    Good fucking riddance. Mobsters and criminals can GTFO our statehouses.
  15. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Nothing in your reply was germane to the conversation that you replied to... It wasn't discussing nor even disagreeing with definitions. Rather, it was about systems theory and the non-disprovability of superdeterminism. This flew entirely over your head.
  16. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    "Whoosh" was the sound the discussion made when it went over your head.
  17. J

    Saudi ends petrodollar treaty

    ... that a treaty to impose violence on violators and to strong-arm the artificial support of a currency through statist controls has ended. Quit trying to gaslight people out of seeing your position for what it clearly is.
  18. J

    Split Biden or Trump too old?

    I'll also note, once this has come up in a discussion I would just repeat any attempt to revive any of the middle lies as "you already brought this up and has been addressed as in my prior 'pack of lies' rebuttal; if you wished to see me rebut this in particular, your opportunity was in...
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    Split Biden or Trump too old?

    I like the "sample defense" for Gish Gallop. Write down the lies, pick a small subset at random (or possibly the first two and the last one, for primacy/recency reasons), and then say "none of these were reasonable, so the lot is likely unreasonable; why should I answer a whole pack of lies once...
  20. J

    According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist

    Well, it's not insane from the perspective of game design. It's a really valuable concept for people who are designing some manner of deterministic environment. I would agree, however, that it's a pretty insane concept to apply in trying to understand responsibility. My desire to understand...
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