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This is getting downvoted but if a news story about a cult of transgender people going around killing people goes mainstream, with the way the political winds are blowing, that might really be game over for trans people. It’s actually particularly bad for the rationalist community if you estimate p(insane murderer | rationalist, trans).
Washington Post notices that sometimes people lie to get life-saving medicine earlier, especially when there’s zero probability they would ever be caught, and frames this as something that is ‘damaging friendships.’
I don’t understand why you’re downplaying this issue. I have a friend whose parents are both doctors (I also have one parent who’s a doctor) who signed up to do IT work at one of his parents’ medical practices and then got a vaccine as a “healthcare worker.” His girlfriend did the same thing. Now I have to listen to my friend brag about how great the US is handling COVID (>550k dead, including ~900 additional deaths per day, etc.) since everyone’s... (read more)
Such a weapon would actually be completely useless for deterrence. Imagine a nuclear attack were launched against your country killing half the population (immediately and through fallout). The survivors are then going to activate their doomsday weapon, ensuring they all die as well, just so they can get revenge? I find that incredibly implausible.
Using conventional nuclear weapons as a deterrent posts many of the same challenges due to the threat of retaliation. For example, say some foreign nation attacks NYC with non-nuclear weapons, or perhaps hits it with a single nuclear weapon, and threatens nuclear destruction of the entire US if the US retaliates in any way. Then what happens?
I think the... (read more)
Is there a group going around downvoting comments about the trans issue? Clearly transgender members of the rationalist community have to be assumed to be quite dangerous at this point given the MULTIPLE MURDERS they’ve been involved with.
More generally, does anyone have a good explanation why there seem to be so many trans people in the rationalist community? I feel like maybe people want to give them the benefit of the doubt since they’re seen as integral to the community for some reason, but I really don’t think that’s prudent given the circumstances.