“Unlike humans, AI can’t be trusted to give an accurate report of how they work.” Aristotle: “The brain is an organ for cooling the blood.”

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If your politics give you permission to indulge in unrestrained interpersonal cruelty toward a hated out-group that is undeserving of sympathy, your politics are bad.

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One thing the internet has taught me is that many people really, really cannot read. They know word meanings and understand the thrust of a sentence, but only that: it’s like they see the individual words and extrapolate the probable meaning from whatever associations the sentence evokes for them.

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Yeah I've heard from quite a few LGBT people in the last couple days who are distraught at the amount of destruction caused by these people and their horrific bullying-for-sport. But unfortunately it's just going to continue until people get over their fear of being targeted, and push back

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So I think the ability to force someone into social exile through abuse is, in fact, a really significant thing and the precise power that the abusers crave. It’s effectively the power to disappear your enemies

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