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An anonymous letter-writer is targeting progressive Kannada writers and liberals

While many of the writers are accustomed to getting threats, this time the person/s writing the letters, who signs off as ‘Sahishna Hindu’, seems more tenacious than others, persisting with it for months on end.

thenewsminute.com/article/anon

#karnataka #chitradurga #kannada #dissent #rationalism #secularism #hindutva #india

Last updated 1 year ago

0x1b · @0x1b
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The face: Eliezer Yudkowsky is starting to make a case on killer at the Lex Fridman podcast. Well, now I won't probably even bother myself with reading his stuff.

#rationalism #ai

Last updated 1 year ago

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"I Should Not Allow Myself to be Scared": Narendra Dabholkar on Facing Threats from Religious Organisations

In this extract from the first volume of the translation, titled 'The Case for Reason: Understanding the Anti-superstition Movement', Dabholkar recounts the pressures he faced from religious organisations, such as the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha as well as by members of the BJP and Shiv Sena. (From August 2018)

caravanmagazine.in/religion/na

#BookExcerpt #narendradabholkar #rationalism #religion #superstitions #atheism #hindutva #sanatansanstha #BJP #hindujanajagrutisamiti #Shivsena #freespeech #persecution #activism #india #books #bookstodon

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Andreas Lindholm · @andreaslindholm
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There are no rational people. When someone claims to be rational, it just proves that they are a raving lunatic.

#rationalism #rationality #rational

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Caught between Islamic laws and Islamophobia: Being an ex-Muslim in Kerala

There have always been people who left Islam and joined rationalist groups in Kerala, but in recent years, several ex-Muslims have formed collectives to face the challenges and repercussions together. Here is why.

thenewsminute.com/article/caug

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Estelle Platini · @estelle
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Thanks to , "the danger of has disappeared from the very exercise of reason. is entrenched in full self-possession where it can encounter no other traps than error, no other dangers than illusion. Descartes' doubt banishes in the name of the doubter [...].
Madness is now exiled.

Michel in "Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique"

@ethics @sociology @psychology @socialpsych

#descartes #insanity #reason #madness #foucault #quote #quotes #self #selfpower #mentalhealth #perversion #sexuality #morals #rationalism #normalcy #ethics #philosophy #sociology #psychology

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Estelle Platini · @estelle
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Estelle Platini · @estelle
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Kroshnit🇺🇦 · @kroshnit
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Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
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TAKE ACTION: Urge your representative to support the National Day of !
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#reason #rationalism #science #reality #atheism

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David Golumbia · @dgolumbia
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Nick 's remarkable generosity: "I have the view that sentience is a matter of degree. I would be quite willing to ascribe very small amounts of degree to a wide range of systems, INCLUDING ANIMALS." nytimes.com/2023/04/12/world/a

#bostrom #rationalism #fascism #ai #ideology #consciousness

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David Golumbia · @dgolumbia
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it is remarkable to me that the meme is spreading among "otherwise reasonable people" that /neoreaction/longtermism/#fascism is on the side of regulating/prohibiting tech development.

by FAR the majority opinion from those groups is full speed ahead.

so if we are judging positions by their proximity to neoreaction (which isn't that helpful a heuristic here), unconstrained development would be the position to worry about.

#rationalism #ai #regulation #democracy #fascism

Last updated 2 years ago

David Golumbia · @dgolumbia
1383 followers · 1115 posts · Server mastodon.world

many people are entirely unaware of how much influence the proto-fascist (at best) communities around so-called have over both the discourse around and its actual development.

here's the best piece we have so far that makes these connections explicit viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/th

#rationalism #ai #fascism #generativeAI #alignment #ea #tescreal

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pdb · @pdbowman
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David Golumbia · @dgolumbia
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area man, dba Copernican genius of our age, clearly understands standard usage of the word "understand"

source: reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comment

#ai #chatgpt #GPT #gpt4 #yud #rationalism #fraud #generativeAI

Last updated 2 years ago

Peter Nimmo · @Peternimmo
797 followers · 676 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Watching the original films again. I'm surely not the first to think that the is - they claim to be all about , but they do like dressing up and !

#vestments #robes #episcopalianism #liberaltheology #ritual #rationalism #anglicanism #liberal #religion #vulcan #startrek

Last updated 2 years ago

David Golumbia · @dgolumbia
1369 followers · 1088 posts · Server mastodon.world

what if Eliezer Yudkowsky but a PhD student at University of Chicago (ht @hypervisible) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacy_Ree

#rationalism #effectivealtruism #ea #miri #ai

Last updated 2 years ago