Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

@AlecSorensen "When actually put to the test, having to sacrifice for their principles, I would be surprised if 10% of the right actually behaved as you describe following moral principles of sacrifice." Be surprised. Conservatives give more to charity and volunteer more for charity, as is documented in the book "Who Really Cares". It was conservatives who instituted modern civil rights. Protestantism created the modern libertarian west. We (Protestants) ended slavery; implemented religious freedom, political freedom, academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press FIRST, and thus caused the academic, scientific, technological, and material progress that followed; and most of the rest of the world hasn't caught up with it yet. John 8:32 "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Conservatives have always had the handicap that when they gain power they use it with restraint, and the left does not. Perhaps conservatives always needed a champion who wasn't a conservative. When the Republican Congress at the beginning of Trump's first term didn't enact his agenda, he invited the Dems to the White House. I am mathematically certain if the Dems had the imagination to reach out to Trump he would have sold us out. But they didn't and tried to destroy him instead. Instead they have created the monster of their nightmares: a creature who acts by leftist rules and is determined to destroy leftism.
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Yea, pretending to be bipartizan at this late date is rich.
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@AlecSorensen I will go so far with you as to admit that conservatives have a passive "advantage" in understanding the left that they don't have in understanding us. Perhaps we all would form "bubbles" if we could and isolate ourselves from cognitive dissonance, but the difference is that leftists CAN form a "bubble" and conservatives CAN'T. We get their view crammed down our throats in school, on broadcast TV and "public" media, through a whole chorus of voices increasingly understood to be leveraged with government funds (and not just at the federal level).
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How does not wanting to spend time with random folk equate to a lack of charity or concern for the human race? If your goodwill is based on emotions and personal relationships it CAN'T be very robust or inclusive. Your objection makes no sense whatsover. Extroverts are NOT as a group more charitable than introverts.
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@JJ-bz4bq People who support terrorists are evil, their race is irrelevant.
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@AlecSorensen @shawn "The right understands that there are moral duties." @alex "No... the right uses idealistic language, just like the left does." You say that as though it refutes what @shawn said. Ideological language is how one does politics, not an obviation of moral principles. Agree that Musk is a self-sacrificing moral actor according to his ideals, and stands out among other multibillionaires in doing so. "to steal man Malcom" "steel"
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19:35 "I'm sure definitely what happened on October 7th was disgusting, like definitely it happens a lot terrorism is bad all true: I don't want your like multi- thousand year old blood Feud being litigated in the streets of New York City." A little history lesson. lslam has only been at war with lsrael for about 80 years. lslam has been at war with the West for 1500 years. We aren't inheriting lsrael's war; lsrael is inheriting ours. Why do you think WE ARE the "GREAT Satan"? There is nothing "private" about the Middle East conflict and it's "regional" only in the operational sense, not strategically or telologically.. It's just the current hot war front of a multi-century program of WORLD CONQUEST from the lslamic point of view. Thanks to lsrael, we have the luxury of being able to compartmentalize it in our strategic thinking. That's OK, as long as we don't cultivate any long term illusions about it. Of course we care about who wins for a moral and a pragmatic reason. The moral reason is that the lslamic radicals want a pogrom in lsrael that would make the HoIocaust look like a food fight. (That is a bad thing that is worth some money to prevent.) The practical reason is that if lsrael loses WE ARE NEXT. The radical Islamists are a continuation of a millennium long quest to destroy all non-Islamic cultures, root and branch. (I apologize to friends of Israel for understating the case. It's just that the bare bones argument is easy to state and hard to refute.)
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He's making an assumption. That game developers are automatically gamers. That was once the case, but perhaps filtering programmers and artists by wokeness filters out gamers.
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Interesting and enlightening talk, flaws and all. Take a like.
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Corporate debts are not enforceable? I suppose that would work for you if a corporation doesn't owe you money. (Got a 401K? IRA? Bank Account? Stocks?) Somehow I doubt you even voted against any of this.
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I have a reply which apparently has keywords YT doesn't allow me to use. It is visible if you chose "Sort by - newest first" under the summary above. --update, I HAD. Apparently YT has deleted it after all.
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@andoriannationalist3738 We're perfectly consistent. You're a loon because you make race an issue, not because you're white. If we don't like people of color doing that, why should we like you doing it?
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Actually, it didn't scream "HIGH TECH" to this old man, but I reckon I've watched more westerns.
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"Human and AI Comparison" Actually, understanding turns out to matter, and "AI" doesn't understand anything. How do I know this? 1. Empirically. AI constantly PROVES it has no clue what's going on. 2. Theoretically. Goedel's Theorem proved that understanding is not algorithmic (according to Penrose). They say that near human level AI is less than 10 years away. They said the same thing when I was 10. They have been periodically saying the same thing all my life. I am 65. Forgive me, but I find the "imminent inevitability" of this development less plausible with every passing year. Lt. Cmdr Montgomery Scott, Starfleet: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" Don't get me wrong, I'm not against AI research. We keep getting interesting and even useful stuff from it. We also keep not getting human level intelligence. Investment in AI might pay off if your only payoff doesn't hinge on producing General AI. Pick a modest concrete goal (which you have some clue as to how to accomplish with an algorithm) and pursue THAT. The "low hanging fruit" is tangible and attainable. The "singularity" is bunk.
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@Unit8200-rl8ev YouTube does that a lot, although they have a way for the channel host to set the comment section to autodelete posts with links, as an easy way to get rid of linkbait spam. I think that is a shame.
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