according to the world's leading artificial ethicist, white supremacist terrorism nearly every week + concentration camps for migrants + totalitarian militarized colonialism = isn't so bad

u/chimaeraUndying 46 points at 1557705928.000000

I’m sorry, imprisoned children are a “small-scale taunt” now?

I suppose we’ve got evidence that Yud literally doesn’t comprehend children, so it’s vagely understandable how he got to that sentence, but still… has he just not read anything about it at all?

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u/Soyweiser 21 points at 1557706220.000000

Genocide is fine if it is only on a small scale.

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u/yemwez 21 points at 1557707937.000000

Genocide is fine if it’s only on small people.

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u/Soyweiser 2 points at 1557737233.000000

That depends, are they born yet?

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u/_c0unt_zer0_ 0 points at 1557757500.000000

if something is on a small scale, chances are very high it ain't genocide.

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u/yemwez 5 points at 1557788352.000000

Genocide isn’t defined by the number of people killed.

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u/_c0unt_zer0_ -2 points at 1557815537.000000

no, but where do you see genocide at work?

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u/Hailanathema 21 points at 1557727482.000000

I mean, not *just* imprisoning children. Imprisoning children with sufficiently low quality medical care [they sometimes die](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/us/guatemalan-boy-dies-border-patrol.html). Killing innocent children to own the libs?

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u/chimaeraUndying 7 points at 1557748365.000000

Yup. And making sure the survivors are likely to be psychologically crippled for life! Like I said, has he just not actually bothered to inform himself on the issue?

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u/Cavelcade 7 points at 1557759418.000000

He derived the information from first principles like a good rationalist. Which is to say no.

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u/chimaeraUndying 5 points at 1557759480.000000

You're not wrong but I wish you were.

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u/DELETED 35 points at 1557709475.000000

You know, I think Yud’s right on this actually. He hasn’t suffered much inconvenience thanks to Trump. Does anything outside of what happens to Yud really matter?

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u/curiouskiwicat 29 points at 1557740079.000000

The last Republican President invaded a foreign country, killing 100,000-200,000 people in the process. The resulting power vacuum probably triggered the rise of ISIS, which has killed as many as 500,000 people. He retired to painting on his ranch.

I can understand why Eliezier is surprised that the current President, who has an even worse moral character than the last Republican President, hasn’t caused as much damage.

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u/AlexCoventry 7 points at 1557777349.000000

I agree, but that sweet, sweet wartime-president love must be hard to pass up. So he may yet turn out to be worse.

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u/pipster818 5 points at 1557792025.000000

When he was campaigning he said all sorts of horrifying stuff about how he wanted to kill the families of terrorists and steal all the oil from foreign countries, so I was worried there would be war crimes happening on a daily basis once he got elected. But surprisingly his foreign policy has been better than average for a GOP president. Still, I'd hardly describe what he's doing as just "small scale taunts to the other side." What sneerclub does is small scale taunts to the other side. What the Trump administration does is killing children. Not sure how he mixed that up.

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u/completely-ineffable 6 points at 1557842911.000000

> sneerclub does is small scale taunts to the other side. No, what sneerclub does is raw evil. Haven't you seen his tweets about us?

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u/antonivs 21 points at 1557708698.000000

Clearly the solution to making AI behave ethically is to define ethics to ignore human suffering and dignity

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u/yemwez 16 points at 1557704669.000000

lets not forget citizens arrested by ice too

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u/IsThisSatireOrNot 13 points at 1557710738.000000

I hope Yud lives to see his “Am I the bad guy?” moment.

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u/dgerard 12 points at 1557704307.000000

quote and tagline nicked from David Golumbia

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u/ForgettableWorse 6 points at 1557741699.000000

bureaucracy+Facebook

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u/DELETED 6 points at 1557708565.000000

White supremacist terrorism nearly every week?

No bad faith, I legitimately don’t know what you are talking about.

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u/BoojumG 20 points at 1557710947.000000

My guess was that they were forming the impression from a recent string of events that didn't necessarily hold up over longer periods of time. I went looking from March to now. Someone set fire to a mosque while people were inside on March 24th in California (no injuries), and on April 27th was the Poway synagogue shooting. The shooter claimed responsibility for the mosque arson. On March 26th a guy burned down a black church in Louisiana. Two more were burned down on April 2 and April 4, apparently by the same person. So that's five attacks that can reasonably be called white-supremacist in the U.S. over that time period, perpetrated by two people. OP might be integrating other international events into that perception, like the Christchurch mosque shootings on March 15th.

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u/abiteoffry 6 points at 1557708919.000000

Please let's not give this administration new ideas...

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u/_c0unt_zer0_ 10 points at 1557736638.000000

lots of people expected a war with Iran or something other of a great scale. all in all Trump has caused much less suffering than GWB did in the same time span, I’d say.

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u/895158 8 points at 1557777697.000000

Depends on whether you blame the Trump administration for not stopping the Saudi-caused famine in Yemen. If you do, Trump's body count might reach GWB's.

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u/Soyweiser 6 points at 1557737318.000000

Here (.nl) there were a lot of crazy stories about what trump would and wouldn't do. One of them said nuclear war in 6 months. This was the only crazy prediction which didn't came true.

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u/Soyweiser 1 points at 1557912909.000000

Sadly, it now turns out this war with Iran might still happen. \_c0unt\_zer0\_ jinxes the world or something ;).

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