The only exception I could come up with is if it’s like in a workplace meeting a question of “what do you think?” …

Lying would still be a bit pointless as you could also just say that you wish not to tell.

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You’re not trying to remove a moral status but deny it in the first place. That’s different but the end result of it still seems the same.

We used to justify the mistreatment of animals with the assumption that they had no subjective experience either. I’m not suggesting AI does but I’m also not claiming it with absolute certainty does not either, and the more we develop those systems, the more likely it seems to me that at some point there’s a good chance that they will.

The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a derogatory term is the same in both cases.

I’ve heard about this as well. Though if I remember correctly, it still requires you to go through the medical examination, and then be prescribed the pills. If you just order sugar pills online they don’t tend to do anything.

In fact, I think this even applies to things like some forms of surgery. People have thought they got knee surgery and have gotten better when in fact they didn’t.

Not sure what to conclude from this. Perhaps next time I’ll just say that my dishonest opinion is that the food was great.

I’m simply countering your claim that rich people do nothing but collect rent. They in-fact fund almost everything that’s paid with tax-payer money.

(Don’t have to be) a big bucks Hollywood star
(Don’t have to drive) a super car to get far
(Don’t have to live) a life of power and wealth
(Don’t have to be) beautiful, but it helps

That is how slurs tend to be used: as a tool to dehumanize something we wish to grant no moral value to.

My hot take is that anyone intentionally being mean to an AI is not a psychologically stable person and similar behaviour can most likely be observed in other parts of their life as well.

This is why “Westworld” would never work. Whether the robots there actually feel anything is beside the point. We’d simply view the people who go there to take pleasure in abusing these human-like machines as the sadistic psychopaths that they are.

What do you exactly mean by “hoarding wealth”? I keep hearing this and nobody ever explains what they actually mean by it. Surely you’re not imagining that wealthy people are just sitting on a pile of cash?

I doubt it’s anything highly toxic but you’re still not supposed to eat it as it probably isn’t good for you. Teflon isn’t good for you either but it’s fine for as long as it stays on the pan and doesn’t transfer into the food.

The top 1% of earners in the US pays 38.4% of all income tax and the top 10% paid 70.5% of it. The bottom 50% paid 3.3%. These are from 2023.

It’s not the metal can I’d be worried about but the coating that now is in the content itself.

How does one follow from the other? You’re just making a statement without any explanation about your reasoning.

If contributing to the economy the most means lower taxes then doesn’t that suggest that the people with lowest income would be the ones taxed the highest? Doesn’t quite fit my sense of fairness.

The closest you can get to a general purpose drill bit is a basic twist drill made for metal. That works equally well on softer materials like wood and plastic. Other than that, no. You typically choose the bit based on what you’re drilling into. Also, not all twist drills are made equal. HSS-R (rolled) works for wood, plastic and soft metals like aluminium, copper or brass. HSS-G (ground) is the bit you probably should be using especially if you’re drilling into steel. Then there’s also HSS-Co or HSS-E (cobalt) which is for hard metals like stainless steel. Then there’s also carbide bits but those are for drill presses and such.

Diamond bits work the way you describe but they’re for ceramics and glass. If you try using one on wood or plastic it’ll just clog up immediately. There’s a reason twist drills look like that: they’re designed to lift the removed material from the hole so that the bit can drill. A bit similar to how an orbital sander works much better with a vacuum attached so the dust layer doesn’t sit between the sanding disc and the surface you’re sanding.

Then again, for concrete you not only need a masonry bit but ideally one with an SDS+ attachment for a dedicated hammer drill. You could technically use a diamond or non-hammer masonry bit as well but it would be extremely slow and you’d probably overheat the bit which affects the heat treatment of it which then causes it to get dull and quit drilling and just start heating up even more.

I have no issue telling people I’m not doing good if that is the truth. The meal example I can’t say. Telling the truth there would be the right thing to do according to my principles but a situation like that almost never occurs - at least it hasn’t for me over the past 7 years or so. Therefor I can’t say that I absolutely would.

However, I’ve answered truthfully to even more uncomfortable questions than that in the past - regarding people’s appearance for example - so from that perspective I see no reason why I wouldn’t.

I’m unsure how I feel about a lie by omission. For me the point has always been not to actively deceive people by telling them something that’s not true. I’m not obligated to tell everything that’s on my mind. I can also just say that I don’t want to answer. However if I evade answering the thing they are asking by dancing around it then that would count as deception.

Would you want to be lied to if your guest didn’t like the food you served to them at all?

As if you couldn’t tell when someone is genuinely into what they’re doing. What a depressingly cynical view of the word.

Depends how you define lying. If you mean saying things that you know to be untrue then I would disagree that it’s necessary.

I read a book about lying around 7 years ago and it was making the argument that it’s only justifiable when used to prevent greater harm, the classic example there being Nazis on your door asking if you have Anne Frank in the attic. Other than that it’s always wrong and often completely unnecessary. Applies to white lies as well.

The only single time I’ve lied since then was reflexively telling a beggar that I didn’t have any cash. Again, completely unnecessary. In fact I’ve not lied for so long that lying doesn’t even come to mind anymore as an option when handling a situation. People can tell that they’re not going to like what I’m about to say next before I even say it because they can see me hesitate and carefully choose my words. They don’t always like hearing it but not one person has cut ties because of it - rather the opposite. They now come to me when they want the truth.

Additional benefit of this is that it makes me carefully consider my own behaviour so that I don’t need to lie about it later.

Again, not lying doesn’t mean speaking everything that’s on your mind. It simply means not saying things you know to be untrue.

I would say that one could make the claim that one brand of coffee is bad compared to another one but if someone tells me that they like the cheap store brand instant coffee then who am I to argue with their subjective experience.

I think there’s been a study about wine as well that people who are used to the taste of cheap wine generally don’t enjoy the expensive ones. Not because they’re bad but because it’s not what they’re used to.

I highly doubt that would be anywhere near enough even if the issue was only limited to the country with the highest number of ultra wealthy people which it isn’t.

I order most of my stuff from ebay or aliexpress so I’m used to weeks long waits. When the package finally arrives I have often already forgot what I ordered.

I just ordered a longsword a week back and the esimated delivery was in 60 days.