exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago

Coral also isn't plants

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

I don't believe in inherent evil either, but I believe a person's actions create their moral character, and moral character is a useful metric.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago

Hydrogen is the name of both an atom and a molecule, and humans are perfectly capable of creating hydrogen molecules.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I disagree. I think anyone can do politics. According to your definition, 10,000 people blocking the streets for a rally isn't politics. A man self immolating in front of the supreme court isn't politics. A scientist appearing before the UN to talk about the dangers of climate change isn't politics. That's silly. It's also a circular definition, given a politician is defined as someone who does politics.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That was to save his life, wasn't it?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only if you keep your beliefs to yourself and stop telling cows what to do

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It would be more accurate to change need to want. Because soulless corporations want soulless art, but they don't need it. Passionate, meaningful art sells better and it has a prosocial effect. Why do you think Disney calls their theme park engineers "imagineers"? They want passionate people working for them. Disney only cares about money, but passionate workers make more money.

And imagine how fucked society would be if we didn't have stories that made us think. You know those elsagate videos that were controversial a few years ago? I don't want kids to watch shows like that. I want kids to watch shows that teach them valuable lessons. Like Star Trek Prodigy, and The Owl House, and Diego, and all the stuff I liked when I was little that made me think but which I've forgotten. Kids need to think. Adults need to think. We need to have important social lessons reinforced. We need gay, bi, ace, trans, and nonbinary characters on TV because that saves lives.

Could an AI write Scar into The Lion King? Could an AI sneak a blatantly homosexual coded villain into a work by a homophobic company in order to have at least some representation? No. Companies only care about money, they will not program their art AIs to care about ethics. And that's why AI art sucks. Art without ethics is bad.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I appreciate your sentiment, but you're talking like all that isn't optional. You can completely ignore mining, fishing, and conservation if you just run Mother bounties. It's less efficient, but it does get the job done. My point is that you can't use conservation to max Entrati easily, not that you have to.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

This is like the fact that Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is about how the American war machine is bad, but one of the bosses you kill is French. One of the themes of the game is that the American military industrial complex literally turns foreigners into war machines, just as it does to foreign nations.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago

Can you show me a moment of this discussion when I was "obnoxious" from before you insulted me? Cause I wanted to have an actual discussion, and you're saying you do as well, but what you're saying would be hard to believe if you were the first one to throw an insult in place of a discussion.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

First off, you're talking nonsense because I'm disabled. Secondly, what you're saying is impossible. Why would I consider moral superiority valid if I didn't care about others? If I didn't care about others, I'd obviously adopt a might makes right philosophy or something abstract like exclusively valuing beauty or truth or intelligence or something. You believe that I think vegans are superior to carnists, and therefore you believe In invested in the idea of moral superiority. Therefore it's impossible, according to your beliefs, that I don't care about others.

You're saying impossible, self-contradictory garbage because you can subconsciously sense that I have NPD and that makes you feel angry and hateful at me. There is no rational basis for your feelings, you just don't like people who are different. That's why what you're saying is completely irrational.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

I fully believe there shall come a day when fewer people alive know what Coldplay is than remember the lyrics to Fallen Kingdom.

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