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Someone will say, "I did not ask to be born." This is a naive way of throwing greater emphasis on our facticity. I am responsible for everything, in fact,
except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world, not in the sense that I might remain abandoned and passive in a hostile universe like a board floating on the water, but rather in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. For I am responsible for my very desire of fleeing responsibilities. To make myself passive in the world, to refuse to act upon things and upon Others is still to choose myself, and suicide is one mode among others of being-in-the-world. Yet I find an absolute responsibility for the fact that my facticity (here the fact of my birth) is directly inapprehensible and even inconceivable, for this fact of my birth never appears as a brute fact but always across a projective reconstruction of my for-itself. I am ashamed of being born or I am astonished at it or I rejoice over it, or in attempting to get rid of my life I affirm that I live and I assume this life as bad. Thus in a certain sense I choose being born.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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If you don’t like my rules, then don’t get in my space. And if you like my rules, come on over here I got some good stuff just for you.. 💋💯♥️
Someone will say, "I did not ask to be born." This is a naive way of throwing greater emphasis on our facticity. I am responsible for everything, in fact,
except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world, not in the sense that I might remain abandoned and passive in a hostile universe like a board floating on the water, but rather in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. For I am responsible for my very desire of fleeing responsibilities. To make myself passive in the world, to refuse to act upon things and upon Others is still to choose myself, and suicide is one mode among others of being-in-the-world. Yet I find an absolute responsibility for the fact that my facticity (here the fact of my birth) is directly inapprehensible and even inconceivable, for this fact of my birth never appears as a brute fact but always across a projective reconstruction of my for-itself. I am ashamed of being born or I am astonished at it or I rejoice over it, or in attempting to get rid of my life I affirm that I live and I assume this life as bad. Thus in a certain sense I choose being born.
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Self-acceptance too often is intertwined with attempts to rationalize ourselves as being right or justified in our mistakes instead of embracing our humanity as imperfect creatures. Authentic self-acceptance requires that we are honest with ourselves about responsibility. Instead of seeking to justify our mistakes, we embrace them.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Self-acceptance too often is intertwined with attempts to rationalize ourselves as being right or justified in our mistakes instead of embracing our humanity as imperfect creatures. Authentic self-acceptance requires that we are honest with ourselves about responsibility. Instead of seeking to justify our mistakes, we embrace them.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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My gender is sure making a great argument for repealing the 19th and revoking women’s rights lately. 😑
WTF is even happening to women?!
Disturbed Florida mom arrested after husband found video of her having sex with family dog: cops trib.al/jzt5HMC
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This should be getting a lot more attention. Men are being deliberately pushed out of the workforce in massive numbers. A cataclysmic societal shift happening right in front of us, and very little is being said about it.
Women account for almost all net U.S. job gains since Trump took office: report justthenews.com/nation/econo…
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As I've said, I think there's probably some truth to the idea that AI companies may be incentivized to inflate the dangers of their product for financial and strategic reasons. However, when all of the major players in an industry are telling us, flat out, that the thing they're building could be very dangerous, it seems ridiculous to write their warnings off completely. If a guy built a weird contraption, handed it to me, and said, "Careful, it might kill you," I'm going to tend to take his warning seriously. It might be a hoax, sure, but if I know considerably less about the contraption than the guy who built it, I'm probably not going to just assume it's a hoax.
I'm not aware of any example in history where almost everyone INSIDE a particular industry is united in saying that their own product might be catastrophic for mankind. The climate alarmists have said that about the fossil fuel industry, for example, but the climate alarmists are not inside the industry. Notably, the fossil fuel industry itself has generally disagreed with their assessments. That's why the climate alarmism comparisons here just don't hold water. It's a totally different situation.
So, while we should be cautious about taking anything at face value, I find the firm "there's nothing to worry about" claims to be pretty ridiculous. This is an extremely powerful and rapidly evolving technology. Any powerful technology carries risk. If the people building this technology say the risk is high, again it seems foolish to blithely assume that all of them are conspiring to simply lie about the dangers of their own product.
Another read on the situation -- one that allows you to doubt the benevolence of these people (as I most certainly do), while not necessarily discounting all of the hazards of the thing they're building -- is that they pushed full speed ahead on this technology, blew right past the warning signs, and now they're seeing things on their end that legitimately scare them, and the PR blitz in the media right now is a classic case of corporate CYA. When the shit hits the fan, they can say, "We tried to stop it." Even though they actually could have stopped it, but didn't, when they had the chance. That seems like a plausible scenario, too.
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It's fruitless to point out feminist hypocrisy, but even so, it's pretty amazing to watch them suddenly pretend to be offended by risqué images. These people have insisted for years that full blown prostitution is legitimate and empowering. They've adopted countless graphically sexual female rap and pop songs as anthems for their movement. Now a naked woman in an advertisement is "setting women back"? What? Not even the slightest attempt to be consistent here.
From @TheAthletic: Sydney Sweeney's advert for the sports prediction app Novig ignores decades of progress in representing female athletes, our columnist writes. nyti.ms/4xm7mAx
ALT “The reason Sweeney’s advertisement has infuriated so many women in sport is that if there is a group that has managed to genuinely force change in the perception of what women are capable of since the turn of the century — of what it means to be a strong and powerful woman, to be a girl, without prostrating to the male gaze — it is women in sport.” - Megan Feringa, women's football writer
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don’t throw out the best part of ourselves...
