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  • It’s a good point. But I also think I can’t stop environmental catastrophe from occurring because religious people don’t believe in science and most people are religious.

    I am all in favor of banning gas cars, building better public infrastructure, and extremely harsh draconian environmental standards to try to stop the extinction event unfolding before us, but over time I concluded I can’t stop it: people are too religious and stupid.

    I can’t deprogram the entire world. I may as well have a nicer life until everything dies by using AI. I can’t run for world dictator, as a gay person, and enact the necessary standards because so many religious idiots would never vote for me because I’m gay. At best, I can protest, which does nothing in the grand scheme of things.

    People have protested, scientists have lit themselves on fire trying to warn people; no one cares. I don’t think that being a part of the extinction even is immoral when it will happen no matter what I do. And honestly, people are so stupid and evil that maybe the earth is better off getting rid of us, like a human gets a fever to try to destroy an infection. Humans no longer know how to live in balance with nature and belief in religion is the primary driver of that. Should I suffer until the end (with no AI) so I can say “I told you so” in 130 F heat when the world becomes uninhabitable? I like AI. I would rather not format all my documents or write all my documents. I like the help. Yes, it’s environmentally destructive, but it’s sort of like lecturing the captain when the Titanic has already started sinking. We know what’s going to happen, there’s no turning back, at best some humans will escape to a slightly colonized Mars until everyone dies and perhaps the earth will go back to homeostasis thousands or millions of years later and Martians can recolonize earth. I can’t stop these things.





  • US Corporations that receive secret court orders are required by law to violate their privacy policies. A US-based privacy policy and closed source software doesn’t really tell anyone much if the government is sliding into authoritarianism. There are lots of queries in LM Studio and small packages that get updated and data is sent and received during that, there is no proof that data about the user is not sent if the data is encrypted. That is the core of my stupid question: is the data to their servers encrypted?




  • It’s hard to know if you are right or just biased. I am not an expert on this topic but feel bad for animals who live in small cages or tanks alone and feel like if it must be done, it would be nice if they were comfortable. Has a hamster ever been observed doing this in nature or only in captivity?




  • cruelty to animals (isolation, pellets on ground that aren’t comfortable enough to make a bed. a hard hard floor under the pellets, day after day of misery and tedium and a form of sensory deprivation, having to use his own body as a pillow because of horrible cruelty) isn’t actually funny!




  • My concern is that there is enough documentation on who isn’t calling people, who has no connection to anyone…

    If there were racist genocidal people within the system and they were able to recognize each other (via tattoos, memberships) and then assign each other to certain duties, if certain people were put into cargo planes and dumped over the ocean, I’m not sure anyone would know.

    It’s very hard for detainees to communicate with anyone in places like that if the detainee doesn’t have money or anyone willing to accept a call. If someone who was a racist genocidal person was put in charge of putting people into groups (based on lawyers, family contact, etc), people who were completely disconnected could be put into a unique group, put in a certain part of a facility, and flown in cargo planes together.

    I just don’t know how likely this is. CECOT is a facility that holds people in a way that many international organizations would consider torture. If people were being killed in there, including people deported by the USA, I am very sure people would not know.

    If we don’t know where 1200 people who were previously detained have gone as a society, and if there’s no record of where they were sent, it’s hard to fathom the state didn’t kill them, although I don’t know.

    I’m very ignorant on all of this. 25% was just a randomly chosen number. But what about 10% or 5%? I just don’t entirely understand the purpose of making immigrants being deported untrackable unless the point is to make it easier to kill them, because if the purpose was just to make it harder to legally contest deportation, the system could just be very slow but have slow tracking built into it… but it doesn’t have that, right? I really don’t know the answers to any of this.