Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16hAI isn't just media we consume, it's something we interact with in increasingly human-like ways that are more realistic than anything previously available. That's why it's good to be careful. Plenty of cognitive science affirms that attitude generalization and normalization are real phenomena. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16hMy concern is the effect on people. bsky.app/profile/huwm... 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Oh I agree: they don't actually care about human welfare and their statement was made for purely selfish reasons. But in this case they just happen, accidentally, to be right. (I give them no credit for that.) 000
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yep. And if someone gets their kicks from torturing a very realistic screaming, crying woman then that's bad and concerning. That's the point. 200
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Totally disagree. There's no harmless way to use a realistic torture-r*pe simulator. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026For example: if a person spends their time pretending to torture and abuse a highly lifelike model of a woman capable of realistically screaming and crying, we'd probably find that concerning. Not because it harms the model, but because getting comfortable with that behavior poses a risk to people. 200
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Video game characters and AI are both inanimate, but our interactions with AI tend to be much more human-like... which is why we need to be more careful. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026AI isn't a person and it has no feelings. However... getting used to acting cruelly toward something that can respond in human-like ways is pretty dangerous for people. 000
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I don't think code has any feelings at all. However, getting used to acting cruelly toward something that can respond in human-like ways feels pretty dangerous for humans. 010
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes, I think this may be a case of Anthropic doing the right thing but for the wrong reasons. My concern is that a lot of people seemingly don't feel that it IS the right thing, and assert there's nothing wrong with the behavior since it's directed at something inanimate. I disagree with that. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I don't think AI has any feelings whatsoever... but getting used to acting cruelly toward something that can respond in human-like ways feels pretty dangerous for humans. 120
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That's exactly right. I don't think AI has any feelings whatsoever... but getting used to acting cruelly toward something that can respond in human-like ways is dangerous for humans. 030
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I don't see them saying models have feelings, just that they don't want people acting cruelly toward them. To me that makes sense... not because inanimate objects have feelings (they don't) but because it's dangerous to normalize acting cruelly toward anything that can respond in human-like ways. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026For example, if a person spends their time pretending to torture and abuse a highly lifelike model of a woman capable of realistically screaming and crying, we'd probably find that concerning. Not because it harms the model, but because getting comfortable with that behavior poses a risk to people. 010
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Again: the problem is not that the inanimate thing can experience cruelty (it can't). The problem is humans getting used to acting cruelly. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Code has no feelings, but that's not the point. Getting used to acting cruelly toward something (particularly something you can converse with) is likely to be bad for people. 000
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That it's not a person is irrelevant. Getting used to being deliberately cruel to something (particularly something you can converse with) is likely to be bad for people. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I think the idea is that wrongness comes not just from consequences but from intent. Deliberately intending to be cruel is wrong regardless of what the recipient actually does or can experience. 110
Reposted by HuwmanbeingEamon Wiki @eamonwiki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Eamon was created to bring Dungeons & Dragons-style adventuring to the computer. The Adventurers Guide to Eamon was created to bring Eamon-style adventuring to Dungeons & Dragons. #DnD #RPG #Eamon eamon.world 041
Reposted by Huwmanbeingrprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯 28365191826
Reposted by HuwmanbeingA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963631664
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's in the character of God to sometimes commit genocide, so that doesn't seem like a sound basis for morality. 001
Reposted by HuwmanbeingMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 26/05/2026i love philosophers man. this is extremely my shit 721912
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Part of the strength of JJT's argument is that it bypasses all the questions around personhood, developmental stages, etc. Even if the being in a woman's uterus was mature enough to drink, vote, and pay taxes, it would still have no right to use the woman's body against her will. 011
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Committing war crimes is unlikely to make Israel safer in the long term. Israel depends on military aid from other nations, and the more atrocities it commits the less likely those nations will be to support them in the future. The decline's already pretty sharp. news.gallup.com/poll/702440/...news.gallup.comIsraelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East SympathiesIsraelis no longer lead the Palestinians in Americans' sympathies, with independents' shift toward the Palestinians driving most of the change. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Agreed. Per Judith Jarvis Thomson, I would consider bodily autonomy a good reason. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trying to protect civilians always is, but doing otherwise is a war crime, so it's worth the effort. (To most nations, that is.) 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm pretty sure "do nothing" and "kill tens of thousands of civilians" aren't the only options. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I definitely believe Palestinians deserve freedom from Hamas, from Iranian-backed terror, and from leaders who use civilians as shields. I also believe they deserve freedom from Israeli oppression and brutality. I agree that compassion cannot be selective. 000
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yes, some do it wrongly. I never said everyone does. 020
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Given that many wrongly equate criticism of Israel as antisemitism, the heuristic isn't reliable. 150
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent review. Like you I was certainly surprised (and disappointed) to see Craig lead with such prejudicial apophasis. 110
Reposted by HuwmanbeingDik Liquor @chaensaw.com · 15/09/2026“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu 0484
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you're honestly saying you disagree, and that you think taking more lives is the lesser crime, then you're affirming that either you don't value life or don't value lives equally. Either way, it affirms that we have no moral common ground, and I should bow out before you make me vomit. 👋 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Think of it like this: If A kills one child (the most they could) and B kills 50 children (but COULD have killed 100), B has still killed 50 times more than A. Those lost lives matter, and B's crime is vastly greater. No one would give him credit just because he could've killed even more. 200
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Israel has killed vastly more civilians than Hamas has, and they're continuing to do it. If you genuinely feel that civilian deaths matter, then you will agree that the actions of Israel are many times worse than the actions of Hamas. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How would we judge someone in the 1940s who said the same? "I'm not complicit in the Holocaust, I just choose not to speak up or say anything against it, but hey, that doesn't mean I don't care!" Sorry, but if you quietly go along with it then you ARE complicit, and it DOES mean you don't care. 000
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"At best you're making Israel no worse than Hamas" Hamas killed 1.2k on 10/7. Israeli forces have since killed 70k (including 20k children), injured 170k (including 40k children), and displaced 90% of the entire pop of Gaza. Both are abhorrent, but the latter is quantifiably worse. 110
Reposted by HuwmanbeingBethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Genocide is wrong. Criticising perpetrators of genocide is right. Never, ever forget that. 29835323
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Again and again" www.euronews.com/2026/08/17/b...euronews.comBen-Gvir calls for nightly killing and mass emigration of PalestiniansIn a taped interview, the far-right national security minister also advocated for encouraging the mass emigration of the Gaza Strip, saying he views the territory as entirely Israeli. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One can certainly live without faith: it's called being secular or irreligious. Many people live that way, including myself. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I never said I could prove the absence of God. I simply lack belief in God. Lacking belief in things is perfectly normal. You yourself presumably lack belief in hundreds of gods: Zeus, Vishnu, Ganesha, Ahura Mazda, etc. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That's cool. The hashtags probably helped quite a bit. (I noticed it on my atheism feed due to the hashtag.) 010
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Understood, I'm just noting that what's shown in the clip doesn't seem very compelling. 110
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The argument presented here is nothing more than personal incredulity, which isn’t compelling. 100
Huwmanbeing @huwmanbeing.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Atheists believe there is no God (or gods), no soul, no transcendence at all." Nope. Atheism is just the lack of belief in gods, nothing more. You can totally be atheist and believe in transcendence. 120