My allegiance lies with those who acknowledge their flaws and strive for betterment, rather than those who mask their flaws with a facade of righteousness.

The real world effective difference between objective and subjective morality may be negligible. If morality were to be considered objective, everyone still forms their own interpretations of the official objective morality by using their own unique intuitive dispositions. If morality were to be considered subjective, each person still thinks their moral code is superior to other codes or lack thereof and ought to at least in part be applied universally.

If there was such a thing as a church equivalent for secular people, I would attend. Building bonds with neighbors, inspiring people to be better and pitching in to help the community every week seems to be lacking among modern people and seems to be reflective of much of today's problems.

AI, AGI, and robots in the upcoming years is going to bring a tsunami of political pressure for UBI. I think this is going to be unavoidable.

Prosperity requires liberty requires responsibility requires integrity.

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It's too high a standard to expect most people to change their minds and biases with better arguments. Most times I'm just using them to test my own beliefs against so atleast maybe I still learn something.

It seems machines will eventually out compete us in every way. Doesn't that mean everyone will live on welfare since they can no longer trade their labor? When merit is gone and the only way to get value is by owning machines, I imagine the political pressure would be enormous.

It's not possible to have a poll with 1 vote per account and also no required sat payment?

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