[-] maol@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago

In January, Humane laid off about 10 employees. A month later, a senior software engineer was let go after she questioned whether the Ai Pin would be ready by April. In a company meeting after the dismissal, Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane, two attendees said.

[-] maol@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

He looks like a dog that's just been shown a treat.

[-] maol@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago

Fuck me, is that what Scott Alexander looks like?

[-] maol@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean in this article they claim that girlfriend will be able to have seven kids, spaced a year and a half apart, and homeschool them, and still keep her career. They're obviously not too concerned about contradictory statements.

[-] maol@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago

Everyone's least favourite rationalist couple

[-] maol@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago

How pig-headed does this schmuck have to be, not to realize that if there is a "lot of money", that means the billionaire has committed a more serious crime? A billionaire who evades his (or her, but lbr most of these people are men) fair share of tax offloads that cost onto the public, who are much less able to afford either tax hikes or lost services.

You're right, it's a totally libertarian attitude.

[-] maol@awful.systems 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

" Q2: Suicide is not the answer to depression and equivalent ailments!

A2: You should at least be able to accept that sometimes it is the best answer in our imperfect world. Your character in this scenario has come to believe this is one of those times. "

I feel like there might be some other issues with your parenting if this is the case. Chronic depression rarely comes from nowhere.

[-] maol@awful.systems 14 points 11 months ago

Ok I thought this was about euthanasia but I clicked through and he's basically just advocating for family annihilation??? There's no way THIS could go wrong, huh??

[-] maol@awful.systems 16 points 11 months ago

What is it about Reddit and this specific scenario? I've seen people talk about how the brutal truth is that disabled children are bad over and over again. If you challenge this, you're naive and possibly offensive. It's one of Reddit's weird fixations (see also: father's rights).

[-] maol@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Put another way, even if one believes abortion is permissible, it likely remains a comparable problem to any problem of infant mortality – but with even more lost life-years, and occurring on a much larger scale than infant mortality".

Well, it isn't comparable, because abortion prevents forced birth, and forced birth is a form of torture. As indeed is being forced to care for a child in poverty.

"Other responses to Thomson highlight various other disanalogies between pregnancy and the violinist situation: In most cases of abortion, the woman is responsible for both the child’s neediness and their intimate biological relationship with the woman – unlike the violinist case. Other responses to Thomson highlight various other disanalogies between pregnancy and the violinist situation: In most cases of abortion, the woman is responsible for both the child’s neediness and their intimate biological relationship with the woman – unlike the violinist case."

Bit of a bold statement, and likely untrue. It is impossible for a woman to know even when having unprotected sex if it will result in a pregnancy. Contraceptive technologies fail. And what about the responsibility of the father? It takes two.

"n the case of abortion, the woman is the mother of the child[6] – unlike the violinist case.[7]"

Ok, this is meaningless.

"The violinist is in an unnatural situation and being hooked up to the stranger is an unnatural position – by contrast, the fetus is exactly where she is supposed to be in her ‘natural habitat’."

Not in my womb, it isn't, motherfucker!

Quite a lot of pregnancies end early in miscarriage.

[-] maol@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

Moral uncertainty is reason to become pro-life? We do morally uncertain things every day. That's no reason to legislate.

[-] maol@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

"Unlikely things never happen" - Sam Bankman-Fried, who has a big brain

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