Impassionata

• Impassionata 11 Jun 2022 23:53 UTC

  −5 points

  on: Is there any way to con­vince peo­ple out of their ide­olog­i­cal fears?

  This is an ideological pablum of a disaffected leftist. It’s not appropriate for this forum, and should be deleted.

• Impassionata 9 Jun 2022 21:38 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: To­day in AI Risk His­tory: The Ter­mi­na­tor (1984 film) was re­leased.

  Implausible… but perhaps not impossible.

• Impassionata 9 Jun 2022 1:32 UTC

  7 points

  on: To­day in AI Risk His­tory: The Ter­mi­na­tor (1984 film) was re­leased.

  It’s come to my attention that The Terminator (1984 film) was not actually released on this day in 1984. I apologize for the error.

• Impassionata 13 Jan 2021 0:13 UTC

  2 points

  on: The True Face of the Enemy

  masterful reification

• Impassionata 11 Jan 2021 6:57 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: Stuart Anderson’s comment on: Will we wit­ness the com­pas­sion of a na­tion?

  Remember how I said there is more than one reality?

  If you believe there is more than one reality I think you have become confused. Notice your confusion.

• Impassionata 10 Jan 2021 20:06 UTC

  1 point

  on: Will we wit­ness the com­pas­sion of a na­tion?

  Solid work.

  I think that there is one implicit assumption of yours to examine closer, and that is that the State will be especially vengeful or overly punitive. Most of the punishments that will befall the various rioters are described in advance by law.

  The State in America is a lot more thoughtful and powerful than to make martyrs so casually.

  Those whom the State labels Insurrectionist are by others labeled Patriot.

  From a certain point of view this (false) label is the Foreign State.

  Trump will likely be jailed for life. Without Trump the alternative reality will collapse and subside. Those who believed in it will stay quiet for two years and then pretend nothing of 2016-2020 ever happened.

  Healing won’t happen through conversation, for the most part, because people aren’t that good at admitting they were wrong. Primarily this is done just by dropping the subject.

  The State will pave over this entire thing so deftly it will be as if it never happened. That is the total power of the State, because the State operates through a much longer timeframe than individual humans.

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  To be clearer, I agree with the spirit of your words urging healing, but I believe that the reality is that none of us on the Internet have the neighbors that matter. I certainly don’t. Even the Trump supporting contacts we do have are likely somewhat atypical!

• Impassionata 10 Jan 2021 5:53 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: kithpendragon’s comment on: We Wit­ness Now The Fury Of The State

  Great!

• Impassionata 12 Mar 2020 23:22 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Scott Alexander’s comment on: The Crit­i­cal COVID-19 In­fec­tions Are About To Oc­cur: It’s Time To Stay Home [cross­post]

  Fair argument. I’m close enough to Seattle that I’m metering that risk as well. The reality is the rate at which hospitals get overwhelmed will vary by a few days, maybe even a week, across the US.