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  • An example of why this is incorrrect.

    If a card is the ace of spades, it is black.

    A card is black if and only if it is the ace of spades.

    There are other conditions under which B (a card is black) can happen, so the second statement is not true.

    A conclusion that would be correct is “If a card is not black, it is not the ace of spades.”. The condition is that if A is true B will also always be true, so if B is false we can be sure that A is false as well - i.e. “If not B, not A”.



  • By “escape illusions” do you mean not falling for and being able to overcome false beliefs?

    I’d say you should familiarize yourself with logical fallacies and cognitive biases, and to become accustomed with admitting the limits of your knowledge. “I don’t know” is a perfectly reasonable answer, and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions if we don’t have much knowledge on a topic.

    Open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity, rigorousness and humility can help you not fall for false beliefs and keep an open mind to new facts that might contradict what you previously believed.




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    I’d say in just another 1-2 years the quality will be high enough to basically be indistinguishable from real humans. GANs were first introduced in 2014, and since then we’ve gone from tiny black and white images of hand-drawn digits to being able to generate HD images of practically anything with just a text prompt.

    I’m not entirely sure when the research on AI-based TTS started, but I know it’s had a lot less attention than image generation. Still, there have been significant improvements and with the recent AI boom more people are interested on the topic, and there’s certainly plenty of money to be made with this technology as demonstrated by ElevenLabs itself.

    While TTS AI is not quite at its peak yet, it’s already good enough to fool some people as we’ve seen from those fake MrBeast and Joe Rogan videos, and as many people have said this is the worst that this technology will ever be, and it’s only going to become more realistic from here.






  • There’s a few reasons. From a substack I wrote a while back:

    A 2014 study analyzed the data of more than 7400 people and found that “perceptions of preborn humanness explained very little of right–left differences in abortion support, and the association between preborn humanness perceptions and abortion opposition was no stronger for those on the political right (vs. left).”4

    By contrast, a 2017 study found that sexism accounted for 30% to 70% of the left-right difference in abortion stance even after controlling for other relevant variables.5 An earlier study found that authoritarianism had a significant correlation with an anti-abortion position and aggression towards women,6 and a 2019 study found that right-wing authoritarianism had a significant correlation with anti-abortion stigma both before and after controlling for other variables.7

    A Pew poll also found that 33% of Americans simultaneously believe that a fetus is a person with rights and that the decision to abort should be up to the woman, so the idea that life begins at conception explains only some of the difference in abortion opinion, with it mostly being determined by factors such as sexism, religiosity and sex. It should go without saying that Republican politicians are mostly conservative religious men, and there’s far less diversity of demographics and opinions among them compared to their constituents, and the Republican party takes sexual abuse far less seriously than Democrats.

    In that same Pew poll they also found that while a significant chunk of Republicans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a majority (60%) still believed that abortion should stay illegal in most or all cases. So Republican politicians may also believe that this is still a winning issue for them in the culture war (although the “red wave” that never was may suggest otherwise).

    The GOP also gets a lot of donations from anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion religious groups, so they are undoubtedly motivated to please said donators to keep the money coming, even at the expense of their voters.