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e eight things that people say about this sort of thing, which unfortunately happens somewhat regularly. So you don't need me to say all the usual stuff, but there is a new bluntness happening. I don't know if you've noticed, but as wokeness is trying to be put back in a box, people are being a lot more blunt about race and trans and everything else. Robbie Starbuck was recently asked in an inter…
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Now, you know, I have a lot of empathy for people who are in that trans situation. Whatever they're going through, it sounds tough. So, you know, I feel like empathy is perfectly appropriate. But I do agree with the idea that we are not obligated to join somebody's preferred view of reality. The whole idea that you can transition is a view of reality and you're not really obligated to join it and you're not really obligated to make happy talk as if you do agree with it or you do enter that version of reality.
And I'm not going to make an opinion of who's right or who's wrong in this case. I'm just going to say you're not really obligated to join somebody's realit
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y. If you're sure that it's just an imaginary structure in their head, you are not obligated. Well, you know, I've talked quite a bit before about trying to create an agent that would look like me, like a clone of me, and would survive me and go on forever as my AI version of me. Well, apparently that's a growing industry. They're called deadbots, AI dead bots. And a deadbot would be a bot or an…
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