What is flow art?
Danksy
joined 1 year ago
The lack of nuance in any discussion on Lemmy is making me less and less interested in comment sections.
They're not saying it is the only factor, only that it is a relevant factor. Which it obviously is.
It's easier to nitpick than it is to interact with the actual argument.
I agree with you. The headline is misleading, and I think it devalues the article.
And he discredits his own argument 20 minutes later.
This is still based on fit, evolution, and technology in the context of Earth and humans. Who knows how (or if) evolution could or would work on other planets. Who knows which traits fit would select for, and what process that selection would be based on.
Also, who knows how else technology could look. We have tech that HUMANS couldn't imagine just 100 years ago. How are we supposed to imagine what technology would look like on alien planets.
My point is: you shouldn't look at the probability of human technological intelligence. And we naturally can't look at non-human technology since we haven't found any. We can't know the probability. All we know is that it has happened at least once.
He spent 25 minutes contradicting himself and concluded "we don't know".
Shrinkflation still happens, you just get to watch two numbers go up now.
The link references "a/bc" not "a/b*c". The first is ambiguous, the second is not.
Assumed by whom? Clearly not everyone.
From a logical perspective that implication is true, choosing your sexuality implies you have a choice. However, I disagree with the premise that there is a choice to begin with.
I do not choose to be straight, I just am. I'm not gay, and no amount of choosing will change that. I'm a guy, and I can choose to look for a boyfriend, but it won't change the fact that I'm attracted to women. Now maybe I discover that I'm actually attracted to both men and women, but I would argue that discovering is different from choosing. Choosing would mean that I can choose to not be attracted to a gender, which I can't. I can only choose whether or not I act on it.