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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • If they’re as smart, communicatable and capable of social responsibilities, then yes. There are some species that may be “differently” smart as humans, but lack a common lanuage and can’t take on shared social responsibilities, so giving them rights is difficult to say the least.












  • While we can entertain the idea that some people shouldn’t breed(genetic defects that lower the quality of life for the individual or society) or shouldn’t raise children(stupid raises stupid), there’s no neutral authority that can make and enforce judgments. Even if we make an AI to do it, it would just reflect the view points of the people who made the AI or the sample set that was fed to the AI.

    The best we can do is make a society strong enough to cope with these issues, either new and better genetic treatments or more robust public schools systems.

    There’s plenty of examples across different societies in the 20th century alone that practiced one form of eugenics or another that we now find appalling. Here’s an article describing some from the late 20th century US.



  • It’s not really pedantic. If the air force is using the term “UFO”, they’re referring to the technical definition. Means, flying things without known radar or visual references. The problem is when mass media relays the message, they deliberately muddle the definition because it’s good for ratings.

    I don’t think there’s an actual government conspiracy regarding the ufo hearings, but a simple media conspiracy for ratings. I might be wrong, but that’s the simplest explanation for what’s going on at the moment.