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Seem to be getting some NGL questions on the old link. This is the new (working) link: ngl.link/tosalaf1
I do sincerely hope the worst for almost everyone discussing this, but I’ll make one, brief comment: divorce is almost certainly the right course of action if you’re married to someone who makes such radical judgements without any communication or consultation.
(الدور تسلسل أيضًا، لكن في أمور متناهية، ولهذا كثيرًا ما يقتصر بعض العلماء على التسلسل في باب القِدَم وغيره ممّا يلزم فيه الدور أو التسلسل بالمعنى الأخص - وهو الذي يكون في أمور متناهية - فيتوهّم القاصر نقصًا في كلامهم، وليس فيه نقص لما عرفتَ الآن في معنى التسلسل الأعم، فتنبّه…
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BREAKING: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, and they assume one in 2027, per Axios
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Exclusive: The UK’s largest “sharia-compliant” fund, HSBC’s Islamic Global Equity Index Fund, has purchased more than $100m worth of shares in 5 companies linked to the Israeli military in the first half of this year, a @MiddleEastEye analysis can reveal
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I don’t think it can be overstated that this is a horrible, dangerous understanding of, or mindset towards, suicide.
Suicide is not an inevitable outcome or result from a “terminal” mental illness. The key point here is that *there is no terminal mental illness*.
… *should* always be a stigma around suicide. People with mental illnesses should never be given the impression that suicide is okay, or that it is a natural/inevitable end to their troubles and suffering.
This entire approach is on the wrong side of the…
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The more I watch the pro-AI e/acc crowd, the more obvious it gets: a lot of them are not futurists. They are lonely, bitter tech freaks with shitty personalities who figured out how to rebrand their contempt for humanity as “acceleration.”
They do not care about advancement in any broad, human sense. They care about the kind of advancement that lets them imagine other people being replaced, humbled, or made obsolete. That is the part that excites them. Not discovery. Not medicine. Not art. Not education. Just the fantasy of a machine finally doing the social revenge they were too pathetic to pull off themselves.
Maybe too many women rejected their creepy sexual advances, and now they want to take it out on the rest of humanity by cheering for anything that makes actual human beings easier to ignore, replace, or punish.
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Mathematicians are not just hoarding credit for puzzle answers. They build understanding. When a major proof appears, the author normally explains it, defends it, gives talks, answers questions, finds the key ideas, helps others use it, and turns it into new research directions. If the "solver" is an AI pipeline operated by people who cannot explain the result, the community gets the worst version of progress: priority claims without responsibility.
The actual harm is not that AI helped solve something. If AI produced correct, understandable, checkable mathematics, mathematicians would eventually use it. The harm is flooding a field with alleged solutions while bypassing the human process that turns proofs into knowledge. It creates a backlog of expert review, discourages people from sharing open directions, lets shallow operators claim priority over work they do not understand, and converts researchers into janitors for machine slop.
This is not like a cancer researcher crying because a cure was found. It is more like a company dumping hundreds of unverified drug candidates, announcing that cancer has been "massacred," and then mocking oncologists for asking for trials, mechanisms, evidence, and accountability.
And honestly, the glee here is not even pro-science. It's just plain misanthropy. These people seem less excited that knowledge might advance and more excited that some class of humans might be humiliated, displaced, or made irrelevant. Did human beings hurt their feelings so badly that they now need a machine to avenge them against every profession that still values human expertise?
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there is a real crisis amongst millennial parents who are so terrified of inadvertently traumatizing their kids that they refuse to do anything akin to parenting lest it come across as authoritarian
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In 1993, this photo of Belgian soldiers holding a Somali boy over an open fire shocked the world.
The soldiers were in Mogadishu as part of the UN-authorized Operation Restore Hope, supposedly there to protect Somalis and deliver humanitarian assistance.
The photograph became evidence in a military prosecution.
And what happened next was even more shocking.
In June 1997, a Belgian military court acquitted the two soldiers, Claude Baert and Kurt Coelus, of assault, battery and threats.
Their defence?
They claimed it was merely a “game.”
The court accepted that there was insufficient evidence that the boy had suffered bodily harm or that his life had been threatened.
The prosecution appealed.
In December 1997, the acquittal was confirmed.
Imagine being the Somali child in that photograph.
Imagine watching the men who held you over a fire walk free because a court decided there was insufficient proof that you had been harmed.
This is part of the history that disappears when Western military interventions in Africa are remembered only through the language of “peacekeeping” and “humanitarianism.”
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3% of Israelis believe that a full ethnic cleansing of Gaza would be immoral:


























