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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Oct 2021

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Sam Altman

    this is an ill formed statement "shoulds" imply a moral theory of right and wrong, not just a statement of facts about the universe one can believe that X occurs and have absolutely zero reason to care about ithttps://twitter.com/sama/status/1446919415828602886 …

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    The more you believe in the luck of genetics, the more you should believe in the justice of redistributive social programs. But somehow these two beliefs seem quite anti-correlated.
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      2. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 11 Oct 2021
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Also, if you believe in the luck of genetics you would want to reduce the randomness down to a minimum. i.e. try to ensure each generation is inheriting the best genes. To the extent social programs are dysgenic it makes sense to be against them on those grounds.

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      3. Todd Barrett‏ @thepiclord 11 Oct 2021
        Replying to @thepiclord @MorlockP

        Or I guess more directly, you'd want to tie those social programs to some kind of program to reduce genetic randomness. Ideally this would be something like genetic screening and embryo selection for all. Realistically it'll be some form of castration for welfare recipients.

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      1. Hephaistos Fnord‏ @HephaistosF 11 Oct 2021
        Replying to @MorlockP

        A thing I always find fascinating, is the idea that "genes" are physical objects outside our control, as if "choices" were something more than the consequences of how neurons synapsed together in response to past events, equally physical and equally outside our control.

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      1. Jackson Hanson‏ @JacksonCHanson 11 Oct 2021
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        Worry that redistributive social programs would disincentivize the lucky from creating value & surplus and wonder if the net benefit of these social programs would be < or > the net value that would've been created by the lucky who were incentivized by money.

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Oct 2021
        Replying to @Michael05156007

        "if you believe the woman killed her unborn child, you should believe she should go to jail" It's reasonable to NOT assume certain common ethical principles in a conversation with a normal modern human.

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      1. Billsy Bainbridge‏ @BillBainbridge5 11 Oct 2021
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        Weeell, sort of. One "could" say that the words speak of likelihood, as if there is a greater probability of "should" than "could", or "Logically, it follows that...". No moral judgement required. Old(er) English: "Should there come a time when". "Let x=" in Math is similar.

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