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Republicans against Trump on X: "This Trump supporter says she would vote for Putin over Biden: “Hell yeah!… Putin wants to go back to good morality.” 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/JJ29k32a59" / X

𝐀𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐧 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐧🇩🇪🇦🇲 (@AislinnSchamane) on X
Die #Trump Sekte hätte lieber Wladimir #Putin als US Präsident als Joe #Biden Kannste Dir nicht ausdenken. 🤡👇

«The modern university has also become a site of moral harm or injury, perhaps mildly so, but a hard place to work and keep one’s sense of purpose and morality intact.»
https://mastodon.social/@deevybee/112221196681444067

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like
Daniel Vallstrom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03685

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like
With an evolutionary approach, the basis of morality can be explained as adaptations to problems of cooperation. With 'evolution' taken in a broad sense, evolving AIs that satisfy the conditions for evolution to apply will be subject to the same cooperative evolutionary pressure as biological entities. Here the adaptiveness of increased cooperation as material safety and wealth increase is discussed -- for humans, for other societies, and for AIs. Diminishing beneficial returns from increased a…

"The #consciousness of the majority has to enlarge or that discord will be #TheEnd of us. You can’t have only personal and up close morality on a planet that now has technological capabilities to murder so many from afar…if you don’t care about others far away, eventually this will come to your do…

It's More Than Just Protests for Palestine, It is Existential Hope for the World
Nobody wants to know how the sausage is made. We don't really want to know how America came to be in its current form—to the extent that some states have

In short: "Biden bad, Trump worse"
RT @tribelaw (tw)
“Threatening to abandon Biden is an implicit promise to support Trump. Like it or not, we face a binary choice: democracy or tyranny, liberty or subjugation, dignity or degradation, equality or injustice, order or chaos.
No other election in our lifetime will demand that we make a choice between morality and depravity, but here we are. We should not threaten to support depravity, even indirectly, as a pressure …

It sounds obvious in hindsight but some #philosophy researchers did a study analyzing the hundreds of thousands of posts and millions of comments in the popular subreddit r/AmItheAsshole.
https://www.<…

Philosophers are studying Reddit’s AITA “Am I the Asshole?”
In which philosophy tries to understand how normal people think about morality.

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From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/112027879641621371

Sexual morality rarely has anything to do with actual harm.
Sexual morality is almost always about sex-phobic Puritan attitudes.
Anyone who looks at the facts finds the Puritans are always wrong about these things.

"The #consciousness of the majority has to enlarge or that discord will be #TheEnd of us. You can’t have only personal and up close morality on a planet that now has technological capabilities to murder so many from afar…if you don’t care about others far away, eventually this will come to your do…

It's More Than Just Protests for Palestine, It is Existential Hope for the World
Nobody wants to know how the sausage is made. We don't really want to know how America came to be in its current form—to the extent that some states have

Turkmenistan Conducting Virginity Tests To 'Evaluate Teenagers' Morality'
https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmenistan-virginity-tests-morality-security-services/32814240.html

Turkmenistan Conducting Virginity Tests To 'Evaluate Teenagers' Morality'
Female students in western Turkmenistan are being forced to take virginity tests to check their “morality” and prevent teen pregnancies. Those who “fail” the controversial examination are being reported to security services.

US crack down on scholars shows it has lost morality to lecture on human rights | Janta Ka Reporter
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=K188X2gdZcw

'Smart enough to have multiple options' Jaishankar reasserts Indian stand on buying Russian oil
#India wants to set foreign policy in a transactional manner, like Trump, maybe it is time for Europe to switch too.
So, morality aside, who would be the winners and losers?

Donor considering an endowment is pissed: “Give me a reason to consider establishing an endowment. Because at this moment I’m questioning the leadership of the athletic department and the university, and wondering if my money is better off being spent elsewhere, where truth, morality, and human decency matter.”
'Don't gaslight me': Fans decry Trump’s SC football appearance as a ‘terrible look’ - Alternet.org

'Don't gaslight me': Fans decry Trump’s SC football appearance as a ‘terrible look’
A University of South Carolina alumnus and donor said he would still keep his upcoming meeting about funding an endowment for the school’s Honors College. But the donor was furious and appalled at the school for introducing former President Donald Trump on the field at halftime of last Novembe...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03685 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like
With an evolutionary approach, the basis of morality can be explained as adaptations to problems of cooperation. With 'evolution' taken in a broad sense, evolving AIs that satisfy the conditions for evolution to apply will be subject to the same cooperative evolutionary pressure as biological entities. Here the adaptiveness of increased cooperation as material safety and wealth increase is discussed -- for humans, for other societies, and for AIs. Diminishing beneficial returns from increased a…

MoralBERT: Detecting Moral Values in Social Discourse
Vjosa Preniqi, Iacopo Ghinassi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Charalampos Saitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07678

MoralBERT: Detecting Moral Values in Social Discourse
Morality plays a fundamental role in how we perceive information while greatly influencing our decisions and judgements. Controversial topics, including vaccination, abortion, racism, and sexuality, often elicit opinions and attitudes that are not solely based on evidence but rather reflect moral worldviews. Recent advances in natural language processing have demonstrated that moral values can be gauged in human-generated textual content. Here, we design a range of language representation model…

Will Sommer on Twitter: "A virulently anti-gay site popular with Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon is in turmoil after its founder was caught sending shirtless workout pictures to male staffers. https://t.co/J801fl5k1F"

He led an anti-gay Catholic site. Staffers say he sent them racy selfies.
At Church Militant, Michael Voris accused liberal Catholics of being gay, before resigning over morality concerns. Staffers now say he shared shirtless photos.

MoralBERT: Detecting Moral Values in Social Discourse
Vjosa Preniqi, Iacopo Ghinassi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Charalampos Saitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07678

MoralBERT: Detecting Moral Values in Social Discourse
Morality plays a fundamental role in how we perceive information while greatly influencing our decisions and judgements. Controversial topics, including vaccination, abortion, racism, and sexuality, often elicit opinions and attitudes that are not solely based on evidence but rather reflect moral worldviews. Recent advances in natural language processing have demonstrated that moral values can be gauged in human-generated textual content. Here, we design a range of language representation model…