Would advance AI deserve human rights? Would hypothetical workbots and sexbots be unethical?
>>2625804
No. Human rights should apply to humans only, not to machines whose creators programmed them to mimic human behavior. But I fear the way we go about animal rights I'm pretty certain even fucking things will start having rights in the future.
>hypothetical workbots and sexbots be unethical
You are aware robots are used in the manufacturing industry already, yes? I don't see the reason why machines designed to satisfy sexual urges should be any different..
>>2625804
Change name to sentient rights, and sure a sentient AI should have rights.
Yes they would deserve rights, panpsychism is true.
If a non-English speaking country such as China were to become the next sole superpower, would the world lingua franca change to that country's language, or would English still be used because it already has firmly rooted itself in the lingua franca position during globalization?
If English would still remain even after a new superpower arises, what WOULD need to happen to oust it?
English is basically a patois as it is, it's not a real language like French or German, no need to change it.
>>2625529
I think Mandarin is too complex for foreigners to easily pick up unlike English
>>2625529
>Chinese is a language
Is wearing traditional clothing autistic or based?
>>2625508
were those made for the wicked witch of the east's feet?
What about """traditional clothing""" that only dates back a century or two
>>2625513
It's what South/Southeast Asian upper class wore
Plebians were either barefoot or wore sandals
What is the saddest, most tragic downfall ever suffered by a single individual?
>>2625353
The assassination of Julius Caesar.
>>2625353
Unironically Napoleon
>>2625361
T. High School student who just read Shakespeare
Caesar was a cunt
>there are still people who buy into the "Environmental Determinism is a racist discourse" meme
>quoting shit nobody says in order to start a provocative and poorly hidden /pol/ thread v0.23
>>2625269
>shit nobody says
You've never taken a college geography class. It's in all the textbooks.
If stormniggers don't like environmental determinism, and anti stormniggers don't like environmental determinism, does this mean it is true?
What's with the censure of classical geopolitics in academia?
>read intro to geography book wanting to learn more about subject
>first chapter says geography is a racist and imperialist discourse so it should only be thought of as a social construct
>chapter says we should only think about "imagined geographies"
>later in the chapter says thinking about geography as real is oppressive and reinforces oppression
Can someone explain the heartland theory to me?
>>2626910
Russiaboo wanking, nothing more.
>>2624809
Bump
Why did monogamous relationships take precedence over polygamy in western society even though it is not as progressive?
>>2624465
>he looks like a happy man
>>2624465
Because of regressive Christian morality.
>>2624465
Because women ruin everything.
The Greeks could rule the world.
Alexander did.
He took a Greek army to the far Indus. There was nothing left to conquer; the world was his.
But Alexander is dead.
His empire is gone.
And so we live in evil days; the free men of Greece have turned on each other, instead of their proper enemies: those who envy all the Greeks have done. Alexander must weep, if the dead weep. I would weep in his place, but I would also hope.
The world turns; what was may come again. The Fates still spin the web of men's lives. So now, perhaps the gods wish Greeks to be great again. Perhaps a new Alexander will take up the sword, bring order where there is chaos, remake the world of men into a better place...perhaps.
shut up phyrrus
My family, the House of Scipii, are beloved of the gods.
A proud boast, but true all the same.
In return we have served Rome, ruled well, led her armies to glory; it has cost us dearly, despite the love of the gods.
Sometimes the hatred of men is stronger. Our dead lie in many graves, put there by Carthaginian swords..and a few Greek ones. Even Roman blades have taken Scipii lives; that, we do not forget, or forgive.
So, now our time has come. The spirits of the dead cry out for blood. I will lead our family in this undertaking. The GODS will grant us vengeance. When Sicily is Roman, when Carthage is crushed, when the other Roman families are gone, when the
WORLD.
IS.
MINE.
Then I will stand before the gods and be worthy of their love. And worthy to rule Rome.
We Brutii are the only TRUE Romans.
WE saved Rome, WE drove out the kings, WE made the Republic.
The family deserves respect; respect, and obedience. We know what is best for Rome: new lands, living space, territories, slaves! I know what must be done.
The Greeks look down their perfumed noses at all Romans, and they hate us. I'm going to give them a reason for hate...when I've crushed them! Roman steel, that's the answer; Roman steel in the Brutii fist. And the other great Roman families...the Scipii; trash! They have no respect for proper Roman ways, for us! The Julii prostitute themselves. As if the people matter! Bah! We Brutii MUST lead Rome.
Sweden:
>Founded Russia
>Was the first to settle Iceland and Discover that it was an island
>Insured the survival of protestantism
>Was the undisputed most powerful country in northern and eastern europe for a century
>Came with important inventions such as: automatic identification systems, zipper, ultrasound, seatbelt, celsius, dynamite
How could a country with such a small population had been so influential to world history?
>>2624208
Stopped reading after the first two statement being completely wrong.
>>2624208
Idk, ask the Netherlands
>>2624214
>Founded The Kievan-Rus
>Was the first to Discover that iceland was an island
BETTER?
Which historical group has the worst fanboys?
feudal japanese by a large margin
>>2623912
Unironically the Romans.
Vikangz
>If Australian aborigines had been extinct before contact and known to us only from fossil records, they would've been classified as a separate species of Homo.
True or false?
>inb4 brainlets claim that they were classed as fauna under the flora and fauna act
No such act existed
>>2621811
ur a separate species of homo lmao
>>2621811
I think humans are too recent to turn up in the fossil record.
Also false, shape isn't everything, it's how the skull is put together that counts.
>>2621811
Probably true
Why didn't the southern medieval empires, Byzantine, Bulgaria, Serbia build castle keeps like the say the English and French did?
>>2621396
To busy being pathetic cucks smdhtbqhfam
>>2621396
They did ya dingus.
But the difference is that most of them are ruins because they were actually fought in periodically, not sitting most of the time as museum material like in the West.
>>2621396
The nature of warfare was completely different thus the "castle" (which by the way is fucking moronic term which means pretty much everything with a wall) is non-existend. They call them fortresses there, which are more like heavily fortified courtyards. with buildings build along the inner side of the walls.
post pictures, historical figures, etc...
>>2620953
Fuck off
RIP Hephaestion
How come France was unable to permanently establish the length Rhine as her eastern frontier?
It seems like a natural and defensible frontier to have.
Why is everything west of the Rhine not French?
>>2612651
Because 'Germans' have to ruin our borders, instead they blob with their GROSSGERMANIUMS XDDD
>>2612651
Bad leadership.
They tried with the First Republic and then Napoleon but got rekt.