The gains of immigration are so vast and the costs so slim that even if you value native citizens 100 times or 200 times as much as foreigners, the conclusion is to let more people in
@doktoroktober while i see where you're gesturing, this largely works for things like nuclear waste, which has a location
whereas dangerous locations in memespace (computers that think; inkjet printers) are harder to resolve
one of my thoughts at the end of Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (or hell, Canticle for Leibowitz) is that if you wanted to warn your far descendants away from something a hundred generations down the tech tree, there's no good way to transmit the information
when Adam relayed the story of the curse to his children he left out the bit where God said "and your printers will never work reliably", having no idea what it meant
@GirardHolistic i think A LOT about how parables are the best way to communicate timeless information
they tend to have a fair amount of error correction built in, akin to how we can figure out how ancient languages were pronounced by analyzing poetry to see what rhymed
i might be racist against the sorts of people who put dark tint on their front windows, but i can't tell because i have no idea who's driving these cars
@takeiteqsy the point is, self-assessing is THE most code-unrelated question, and Opus would probably still find justification to re-read the current state of the code to answer it.
there are all sorts of questions i ask it that should be answerable from memory... and yet..