So, did it happen due to atheism?
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Karma: 72
With God, 9/11 was permitted for Mohammed Atta, Inquisition for medieval Catholics, and so on. With it was permitted the brutal massacres of the Crusaders in the Middle East (against Muslims) and in France against heretics. With Him was permitted the pogroms against Jews in medieval Europe.
You see the evils of WW2, but what caused the evils of the Thirty Year War, as a part of the European Wars of Religion? What caused evils during the brutal Arab-Islamic conquests?
Hypothetically, if you know an AI lab is very close to developing AGI which is very likely to destroy humanity, and the only way to stop it is to carry out a bomb blast on the premises of the organization, would you not do it?
From a longtermist viewpoint, even the tactic of terrorism to prevent X-Risk cannot and should not be ruled out. If the future of humanity is at stake, any laws and deontological rules can be overruled.
I didn’t comprehend your purpose
Ever heard of scorched earth?
Any data for India?
To what extent can these trends be observed in other countries, I wonder?
Dispelling the one-sided narrative is necessary to build a consensus for peace negotiations
What is your assessment of reports of Russian atrocities against Ukrainian civilians? (I have come to doubt a lot of what I hear in the news)
Honest opinion
Perhaps a nuclear war today would reduce the possibility of human extinction within this century. It appears that AGI is close, without substantial progress in AI Safety. A nuclear war, would, I believe cause a major slowdown in AI progress, increasing the probability of getting an aligned AI at the end.
I am an Indian, do you think migrating Northwards should be a priority?
True, and income distribution is far less unequal.
Realistically, giving is insufficient for even a modest redistribution of wealth. Government intervention is and has been far more effective in this aspect.
It will be essentially a Secular Judaism, where the scriptures only speak of the common values to be achieved by human effort, and not about future miracles. It will be a vision that some secularized Rabbis may even agree to.
My intuition was that the prior probability of head and tails hypotheses should be 50% each. Since existence is not evidence to update in favour of any of these theories, being 100% likely under both, we end up with the 1:1 odds ratio.
A coordination committee with a clear realistic understanding will be required otherwise radicals will accept no proposal. (Case in point: Indian farmer’s ongoing protest)
But what will be the demand? Without a clear demand, the strike will fail.
The vast majority of chicken would not have existed but for the meat industry. Would you accept that argument?