What makes you think an AGI wouldn’t need our species in some way?

How is character.ai responsible for the suicide of someone clearly in need of mental health help?

Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others, and if you think they do, then you don’t understand how targeted ads work.

It is explicitly stated in the TOS that Meta does indeed hand out your personal information to others.

If you think they don’t, read the TOS.

Is there major platform that is not a hot bed of bigotry?

No need for. Solar panels and batteries are at an historically low price and will even become more affordable. There’s simply no economical justification for nuclear energy.

How many solar panels and batteries are needed to power every electrical grid on the planet?

Where do we locate all of the panels and batteries?

Where do we get all of the materials for all of the panels and batteries?

What is the total cost to operate and maintain that global power grid?

What is the lifespan of the grid?

What happens to all of the panels and batteries at end of life, and how much does it cost?

The prohibition of drugs is harmful.

When did I say it wasn’t?

Do try not to quote me out of context this time.

Your position is asinine and wrong, which is the point of this entire thread.

What is my position?

edit oh like I said, you ignored the parts of the last comment which would humiliate you. you can try to ignore them to keep that thought away, but even when you delete the comments, the idiocy will remain. your need to up your rhetorical game.

Posted a comment and edited within 2 minutes because you forgot to attempt an insult, yet I am the one who is “provoked” and “angry”.

Stay mad homie.

I stand by everything I have said. Made clear by the lack of editing done.

Maybe stop quoting me out of context. You may understand why you are wrong.

You keep moving your goalposts.

The goal post was to answer the questions posed. You still haven’t and the posts haven’t moved.

It’s so easy to provoke you. All I need to do is to quote you back to yourself and you’ll get red in the face.

I think you may have reached a point beyond projection, in a realm known as total delusion. The only one provoked here is obviously you. Easily verified by you putting everything “important” in bold(pretentious much?), attacking anyone who responds to you, all while pretending you are some enlightened individual who just has to be listened to for the good of man kind.

Sorry to burst your bubble but you aren’t special, intelligent, or worth listening to. Which is why I continue to ignore what you are saying. Which I explicitly told you I was going to do.

I do have to give you some credit though. The fact you have kept this going for almost a week is rather impressive. Sad, but impressive.

I cannot wait for the next mess of a comment you decide to post!

Go ahead and stand by your words anytime you are ready. Feel free to copy paste my questions, and put the relevant rant that “answers” any one of them below the quoted question. If you can answer all four with what you have previously written in your comments I will go back and answer every single sentence you ended with a “?”.

Otherwise, I will just keep doing what I am doing. Which is showing this thread to my spouse, and anyone who finds chronically online nut jobs humorous, and laughing at you until we all get bored and move on with life.

On that note, there is a lot of hope that you will continue responding as we are drinking now and having a great time. If you do not mind continuing with whatever it is you are doing that would be greatly appreciated by approximately 5 people.

Cheers!

A bit ashamed you were wrong? It’s okay. It’s the internet. It’s full of people like you saying dumb shit they can’t back up and get flustered about. There’s nothing to be ashamed of.

I know it is hard, because I cannot find it in me to listen to you, but you should at least listen to yourself. ;)

Your commitment to this fantasy in your head is rather impressive, even if it is really sad.

You just have to reply, but you can’t address anything

Pot calling the kettle black much?

Nothing is stopping you from not replying.

I think you are missing the real question here. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

You asked for books. That was the first question you had,

From the top:

Did you ever stop to think that the propaganda you speak of is directly influenced by exactly what steeznson was speaking about?

First question asked.

Why do you believe that anti-drug propaganda only began in the 20th century?

Second.

Do you have anything other than wikipedia links to back your stance up? Say, a real study done on the impacts of anti-drug propaganda through the ages which demonstrates that the 20th century was the most militant with it?

Third.

Do you know what Religion is, and its impacts on anti-drug mentalities predating the 20th century?

Fourth.

Then you said this:

If you’re honestly interested, you can find tons of literature.

and I said, without posing a question:

Name 10 books on the subject including the authors.

A strong reader would notice the lack of “?” at the end of that sentence, meaning it wasn’t a “question”.

Do you understand how punctuation works?

Did you forget that I said I would be ignoring you moving forward? Which to clarify doesn’t mean I won’t respond. It means I will ignore what you are saying and respond to whatever catches my fancy. Which is obviously making you big mad.

I find it quite funny, which is the only reason I am choosing to continue. You are a joke to me and as long as you keep delivering the punchlines, I will keep coming back with responses that fire you up.

You say all of this like it is impossible to scroll back up the thread and see exactly what happened.

It is funny that you think I am debating you, or that I owe you an answer to any of your questions when you refuse to answer mine.

You really have to get over the book thing. I get it, you don’t read as much as you claim but that is no reason to behave this way.

Take a breather bud. This is no good for you.

I really think you should lay down for that nap, or perhaps, get your bottle. Anything to help this tantrum you are throwing.

Why did you ask for me to mention ten books when you can’t address a single one that I name?

1. You never named 10 books, while I provided a source for over 200.

2. The purpose was to see what you are reading so I can know what you know. It is not a “gotcha”. You claimed to be well read so it shouldn’t be hard to list off a few books on a topic you also claim to know a lot about.

Perhaps because you’re a sort of silly little boy who’s pretending to know a lot about something they don’t, thinking that because they’ve smoked weed, they’re not “against the prohibition”, while actively fighting it.

Oh look! More projection! I do have to say your one trick pony show is beginning to get boring.

Anyone supporting the prohibition of drugs is acting against the well-being of society in general. That’s an indisputable fact I can and have backed with peer-reviewed studies.

So you keep saying, and yet I have never made a claim otherwise.

edit oh that’s a fun comment about “projection” from some teen who thinks he “wins” debates by saying “that’s a fallacy” as if you’ve ever opened a philosophy book :DD let alone understood the first thing about psychology. you’ve tried your teenage gotchas several times and i’ve shown you how much of a tit you were being and wow, you instantly stop with the argument I made you feel stupid about.

You should probably stop serial editing everyone of your comments. Nothing screams “Chronically online edge lord” quite like constant edits. (As well as commenting on every other comment in this thread, whether it was directed at you or not.)

All in all you need to up your game. Go back to your echo chamber and complain about all the stupid people who just “don’t get it” so you can tucker yourself out for a little nap. I think you need it.

I am not sure if you meant it as such, but that was a great burn. haha

I absolutely empathize with the “Bullheaded, everyone is wrong but me” teenage mentality as well. Especially that mentality mixed with unfettered access to the internet.

Age sure does wear it thin though. haha

More time than effort on my part. You know you have nothing going on when interacting with a person like that is a reasonable way to kill time. lol

I’m not sure they ever will realize that. We probably wound up being posted on some anti drug prohibition forum with a “see what I have to deal with?” title and a lot of circle jerking. haha