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| | Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare staff are fed up with bully patients who act as if being ill means they get a free pass to be a jerk. It does not...
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| | I don't pretend to understand every aspect of human behavior or the psychology behind it, but I do know that sexual repression tends to create deep perversion. Victorian England for example, had a highly repressive and straight-laced society marked by numerous brothels, rampant affairs, and the exploitation and abuse of children. Sigmund Freud did a...
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| | Doaitse Swierstra suggested that a good way to increase the number of Haskell programmers would be to recruit one woman for every man in the room and he went on to say that if this goal were achieved, it would make the meetings more "attractive".
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| [AI summary] The text presents a critique of the Foundational Research Institute's (FRI) approach to defining and addressing suffering and s-risks, with a focus on the philosophical and metaphysical challenges of functionalism. The author, Mike Johnson, argues that FRI's reliance on functionalism leads to intractable problems, such as the inability to provide a clear, disagreement-mediating definition of suffering. He outlines several objections to FRI's position, including the ineffability of suffering, intuition duels, convergence requirements, and the mapping of consciousness to physical systems. Johnson suggests that FRI should consider alternative frameworks, such as computational hierarchies, to address these issues. The text also references various so...