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    The risks are real. https://x.com/DKokotajlo/status/2099601843131478030 https://x.com/paulfchristiano/status/2097733214303645729 https://thezvi.substack.com/p/jacob-coxon-warns-of-human-extinction

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    I don’t have much to say beyond: (1) I emphatically agree with everything Berg says, and (2) I am appalled…

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    I don’t think focusing on the label matters so much for answering the question. Substitute “artificial intelligence’, if you don’t…

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An episode of HiPhi nation on the transgender debates in the UK

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It begins, unfortunately, with some silly sociology, which reports the breathtaking discovery (who would have guessed?) that the public is more concerned with trans women entering female-only spaces, than with trans men entering male-only spaces.   Now one might have thought everyone knew that we have sex-segregated spaces importantly, but not only, for the protection of women from men, i.e,. people with penises, because rape and sexual assault is overwhelmingly done by people with penises.   We certainly needed social "science" for that discovery! (As this first part of the show proceeds, it becomes obvious that these social "scientists" are ideologues and activists.)  The two philosophers–Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne) and Robin Dembroff (Yale)–come in around 18 minutes, if you want to skip ahead.

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