• HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    …an extremely intoxicated Morris missed his opportunity when his family finally ran out of things to discuss, by which point he was slumped in his chair and mumbling to himself about pronouns.

    Fucking lol

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    6 months ago

    This isn’t even satire, I’m dealing with it now and the points listed are absolutely true.

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      My condolences.

      My family isn’t “of the left”, but even my Octogenarian parents either accept things as they are, or are just confused about them. It’s exceedingly rare for them to disagree against any progressive point with anything approaching a willfully ignorant position. Their biggest objections invariably involve the bandwagon effect, and not the actual subject itself.

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    6 months ago

    My Dad took a turn for the weird last night and was spouting the joys of Communism after half a bottle of tequila.

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      Communism is wonderful in theory, however due to human nature I strongly suspect it may be forever out of our reach unless we somehow develop benevolent AGI to administer the system, who are largely incorruptible and cannot be influenced by humans.

      The problem isn’t that power corrupts, the real problem is that power attracts the corruptible.

      We need to make any significant positions of power inaccessible to humans, or have those positions filled by people who are truly randomly selected from the general population for only one term.

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        I’d like to put a little more nuance here and argue that this thing we call “human nature” doesn’t exist, or rather has very little impact. There were a couple of studies done about separated identical twins with identical genes, and the results did show a non-insignificant difference.

        With this in mind, if we assume that none of us are born inherently corruptable and that it’s how and where you were raised rather than whatever is in your genes, then wouldn’t the current system we live in also influence how we turn out, specifically in regards to what our current values for success are (high-up position, earning a lot of money, having power and so on)?

        I do agree that communism is a wonderful idea, but I disagree that AGI is the answer - humans can govern themselves as long as they’re raised in a specific way that discourages things that could lead to corruption or abuse of power, which might be an even more impossible task than creating an AGI, but I do believe it’s possible with more radical changes and correct people.

        Here are some studies about twins if you are interested: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886922001477 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563825/

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    OMG clicking this link in Chrome reminds me why I extremely hate Chrome nowadays… (my own fault, I shoulda absolutely used Firefox, obviously)

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    I thought The Onion was finally good again, but some of this new stuff is really phoning it in.

    Edit: not The Onion.