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Threats and promises are your guiding principles?

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don't understand why the atheist isn't doing drugs and having rampant sex,

I would argue that you can do both of those things and still be morally right as long as it's all safe and consenting.

I think that Christians over-estimate how morally bankrupt they would be without Christianity, because they believe that every human is the worst without Jesus. At least that's what they tell me.

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Threats and promises are your guiding principles?

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Atheists use whatever their morality tells them they should do. There's a complex interplay of empathy, conscience, whatever moral codes they've picked up from their family, their education, and/or society at large. Hopefully, it's all informed by logic and reason, but just like everything else we do it's driven by emotion.

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no rule infuriates me more

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You'll get used to it. It's not going away.

What do you mean by "it"? Large language models and machine learning probably aren't going away anytime soon, unless they're replaced by something better. This "AI" scam can definitely go away, though.

It makes no sense putting so much effort into loathing something that's already ubiquitous.

Oh, it doesn't take any effort at all!

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🤔 Interesting

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Oh, they provide sources. At least, some of them do. It's just that the sources don't always back them up. It's going to gin up sources whether it's correct or not, because that's what it's programmed to do.

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It was just a kid's toy, you know.

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This is the argument that cigarette companies used for a long time to avoid accountability. It wasn't the fault of the cigarettes. It's all those contributing factors.

I saw a lot of that during lockdown. "She didn't die from COVID! She died of pneumonia!" Wow, a lot of people are dying from pneumonia this year! That isn't normal, is it?