Comment on Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude)

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I firmly believe the only reason we still (at least kinda) respect Hitch was because he’s fucking dead, and we didn’t see him show his whole ass like the rest of the “new atheism” movement…

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Christopher “Fuck it man, waterboarding is nothing, do it to me brah, oh no, it actually does feel like I’m drowning, oh well, I guess the propaganda damage I did is irreversible, I guess I shouldn’t have been such a cocksure arsehole” Hitchens?

    That one ?

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    • GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At least he put his damp cloth where his mouth was. And then conceded he was categorically incorrect and it was absolutely torture. I disagree with a lot of his takes (Iraq war was justified?) but that one I actually respect him for

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  • canniest_tod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His support for invading Iraq was pretty bad.

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s definitely a minority of people who are of the opinion that he was always a grifter, but just because a lot of people agreed with him they didn’t examine what he said too closely. For example, his takedown of Mother Theresa is full of inaccuracies and lies, but still commonly gets cited as if it’s gospel

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, like when he stopped talking about evolutionary biology and started talking about how awful islamic people are, right?

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  right?

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s at least one bullet point in a very long list.

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• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We need to stop imagining that being an expert in on practice or discipline means you have even the slightest utility outside your area of interest. We are constantly inviting “experts” to babble outside their area of expertise only to be shocked when they say something stupid.

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They correctly answered the easiest question in the universe, but because it wasn’t very popular thing to do we collectively decided that they’re smart af.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I stupidly believed Bill Maher was credible at one point.

    Unfortunatly that was more or less what got my attention. He said “jesus bad” and thats all my dumb adolescent brain needed to hear.

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