lennivelkant

I wasn't aware you could get a diploma in yodelling

And since self-improvement is "woke", they choose the latter.

If you need to improve to be able to compete, you're not good enough. That's never a pleasant thought. Preventing competition is one way to avoid the possibility of having to face it.

Bonus: 41-46:

"Dann wird er zu denen auf der Linken sagen: Geht weg von mir, ihr Verfluchten, in das ewige Feuer, das für den Teufel und seine Engeln bestimmt ist!

Denn ich war hungrig und ihr habt mir nichts zu essen gegeben; ich war durstig und ihr habt mir nichts zu trinken gegeben; 

ich war fremd und ihr habt mich nicht aufgenommen; ich war nackt und ihr habt mir keine Kleidung gegeben; ich war krank und im Gefängnis und ihr habt mich nicht besucht. 

Dann werden auch sie antworten: Herr, wann haben wir dich hungrig oder durstig oder fremd oder nackt oder krank oder im Gefängnis gesehen und haben dir nicht geholfen? 

Darauf wird er ihnen antworten: Amen, ich sage euch: Was ihr für einen dieser Geringsten nicht getan habt, das habt ihr auch mir nicht getan. 

Und diese werden weggehen zur ewigen Strafe, die Gerechten aber zum ewigen Leben."

Wenn sie nicht auf den Appell zum Guten hören, sollte doch wenigstens die explizite Angst vor dem ewigen Feuer sie motivieren...

Just don't expect them to always tell the truth, or to actually be human-like

I think the point of the post is to call out exactly that: people preaching AI as replacing humans

In theory, asking isn't illegal and truth is a defense against charges of slander and I wouldn't be surprised to learn his desire for domination extends to children. In practice, you're probably a few billion short of laws to apply.

That's what I mean. Voting third party isn't reasonable, unless it polls well enough ahead of time that it becomes a viable choice for people to risk their vote being wasted for the chance to pick a better option. But even then, they need to trust those polls and need to hope that enough other people come to the same conclusion to actually make it so...

If you want to break the two-party-stranglehold, you have to vote third party, but only if enough other people vote third party, and that kind of "guessing motives" or trusting in the other actors to make individually irrational but collectively rational decisions is where Game Theory breaks down.

The theory is clear, but humans aren't quite so easy to model, and when your game features piles and piles of incomplete information and non-deterministic decisions, things get muddy.

There were resistance movements, some of which got quite famous. Most well-known to me would be Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian who was quite vocal about his opposition to the Nazi regime and eventually participated in plans to assassinate Hitler. It failed, as we know, and he was sentenced to death for his role. He very much grappled with the question of whether murdering a tyrant was a sin, but eventually came to the conclusion that it had to be done either way.

He also petitioned the allies to differentiate between Germans and Nazis once the war was over, pertinent to your post.

I think many just don't understand or don't want to understand the complexity of the public opinion guessing game that is attempting to break the vile equilibrium of a two-party-system without spoilering the worse party into power.

At least that's what I hope, because the alternative is that they actually think Trump is better and I'm trying to get out of the habit of assuming the worst.

Wenn ich das Gesicht sehe werde ich immer so schlagfertig...

Time to take my alt account elsewhere...

Voting for Harris was always going to be an attempt to buy more time for more effective change measures, for pushing progressive support in primaries and local elections, for building public perception that the left actually has a chance and can make a difference. It was never going to fix things –nothing can do so quickly, because cultural change takes time – but prevent the worst so that there might be more time for other measures that would set a better course.

But some people opted to let perfect be the enemy of "not as bad" and call their complacency noble, so I guess that option is off the table now.

I thought that was a synonym for shit smear?