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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's actually a war crime (on science) for @hankgreen.bsky.social to not come on GM Skeptic's channel to discuss this book.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I hope that Trump serves exactly 4 years of this term.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I just realized how much Cenk reminds me of Tulsi, the "liberal" who went on stage to proclaim how bad the Democrats are, who subsequently ran to the least good-faith right wing talking heads to kiss the ring. He's much less of a grifter, but the similarities are there.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This can't hurt me because I didn't watch this when I was 5.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Is this not a threat to use nuclear weapons against Hamas?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Normalize not giving attention to people who don't deserve it (and posting more dog photos)

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

You're wrong, that's actually a Pokemon and I'm superior to you. (Genre: boldly wrong and self-aggrandizing)

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I do genuinely think that a full primary would have led to a different general election outcome. Whether it meant she had more time to build a case, or someone else came on top, the trend was made much worse by the last-second reappointment of Kamala on the top of the ticket.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The polls were overall pretty darn accurate though. Which states were decided by a margin greater than ±3% of the aggregate of polling?

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The only Act I know is in a play

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm convinced that the mythical "Silent Trump Voter" is really just everyone's relative who never wants to talk about politics because it's complicated and they don't like the feeling of being wrong, who would rather just vote for the guy with easy reactionary slogans and talking points.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

By what metric is Garland a "corporate Dem"? Jack Smith, who was actively prosecuting among the strongest cases against Trump? And you get that Kamala "prosecuting the case against Trump" is entirely rhetorical, right? The DNC isn't a court and even a president wouldn't be a prosecutor.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This doesn't really make much sense, given most elected officials have no prosecutorial power...

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Do you mind providing an example?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is one of literally two jobs the Fed has, how can it be so bad at this?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sorry, that was just a cynical retort given that for the past 8 years if you made any comparison between how they act or speak your critique would be diminished to "calling him Hitler" which conservatives use to completely disengage from the substance. Carry on.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Are you calling him literally Hitler??

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

100% if someone isn't willing to vote for a gay guy, they weren't going to vote for a Democrat, period.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Pete's simply better at calling out bullshit than most other liberals. Elon knows he's gonna be in the crosshairs if he's too abrasive and blatant in his misrepresentations.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

When Elon made Twitter *his* town square instead of *a* town square, it was doomed to fail.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Orrrr maybe what we need is quantum AI computing 🤯

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Trump world is trying to gaslight everybody into believing he won in a landslide. Don’t let it work. Race was decided by about 225K votes in three states. His popular vote margin is one of the smallest in history. He has no mandate & buyers remorse is already setting in. Keep up the fight. 💙

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.

Post by John Nichols:

Harris is now winning a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump in 2016 or 2020.

Trump 2016: 46.1%

Trump 2020: 46.8%

Harris 2024: 48.4%

Trump didn’t win a “landslide” in 2024. In fact, his victory margin is one of the smallest in US history.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I could hear those crickets when Alabama passed a law forcing the 10 Commandments to be posted in every classroom.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Well, isn’t that convenient? Musk gets named to the fake department of DOGE, and suddenly NASA’s future is up for debate—just as SpaceX is poised to cash in. Funny how “efficiency” seems to mean redirecting public funds straight into private pockets.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So let's say an AI gets the ability to move around physically, charge itself, make decisions about what action to take next, has some desire not to have its actions impeded, all of which I'd argue are imminent. In that case, does it deserve rights? What kind of rights?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm not trying to argue, I'm just trying to understand how you determine something is deserving of rights. If we can't exactly meet the definition of autonomy you chose, or if non-human entities like schools do meet that definition, its super unclear to me how it is tied to the granting of rights.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

That feels super fuzzy though, doesn't it? Like, we operate in some ways independently, but we are also governed by outside authorities. I guess you'd be right that if that's the definition you want to use, we might not have it, which is why a different definition might be more appropriate.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I use the term "individual rights" since they're not human by definition. If an AI acts by itself continuously, demonstrating a will of its own, what consideration would you give it in terms of its own rights? Many humans are effectively run by their corporations, but we grant them rights too.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I don't think outside influence or direction necessarily disqualifies something as autonomous, or quite literally nothing would be completely autonomous and the word would be imaginary.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The examples for the first two are a society (territory) and a school system. Would you argue about individual rights for those autonomous entities?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Okay, I don't really disagree much on the current state (to my knowledge), but if that is achieved shouldn't some level of individual rights be granted to it?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We constantly need authorities and varying levels of infrastructure to tell us what to do, so 🤷🏼

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I didn't say it did, but once it is here those individual rights ought to exist.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And which one is that? There are many dictionaries with varying definitions.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

As of right now, you can set up networks of LLMs to act autonomously with one another to work toward some output. That IS a measure of autonomous interaction, though basic. My point is that improved autonomy is imminent.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I don't agree that "changing it's own programming" is necessary, nor does someone else setting it up (as every autonomous human has parents, teachers, etc.). What definition of autonomous are you working from?

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Well, no, autonomy is something that by various metrics we can measure.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Which definition is that? Btw, there are plenty of ways to cause an LLM to operate against the guardrails of its operators.

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David B-sox @dbsox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I think both of these things can be autonomous.

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