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Having more children than your parents is the new aspiration, and it replaces the previous "I'm the first person in my family to graduate college"
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Is AI a person, or a paintbrush? That's the debate being held between the two camps, and one of those camps can't tell you what a person is
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We can't answer what a woman is anymore. Is anyone surprised to find we now don't know what a person is?
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AI has no more ontological being than a paintbrush. If Anthropic wants to debate this, they must expand their thinking beyond the confines of modernist philosophy.
Mission: Impossible
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Holy shit the AI-is-people people not only have no idea what ontology is, they don't seem capable of grasping the concept, even though their assertions all implicate ontological claims.
Actually we do need to revive the humanities because these people are retarded
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Law enforcement is afforded no opportunity to build and sustain the skills and experience necessary to carry out capital punishment in 2026
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If you have only one child, you don't have children. You have child, singular, not children, plural.
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HIPAA does not exist to protect patient privacy, but to protect healthcare providers from accountability
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19th Century Spiritualism: a widespread and popular movement of the 1800s, by which practitioners attempted to communicate with the dead:
"Typical practices included home or public séances (group sessions for spirit contact), table-turning/tilting, automatic writing, direct-voice phenomena, materializations, levitations, spirit photography, and trance speaking (mediums channeling eloquent lectures from spirits)."
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Notable supporters:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: author of Sherlock Holmes
Alfred Russel Wallace: co-founder of Darwinian evolutionary theory
Victoria Woodhull: leader of women's suffrage movement in the US, first woman to run for US president
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Occultism, though a separate movement, developed later out of Spiritualism, and many spiritualists also participated in occultism. Occultism was smaller, and was presented as a refinement to Spiritualism, whose participants numbered in the millions at its peak:
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