@James: If the one thing that puffs you up with pride is your own humility, then you're not humble. If the one thing that makes you consider your race superior is its general disdain for the idea of racial superiority, then you don't disdain the idea of racial superiority. Nice try. You can climb up as many meta-levels as you want, and it won't help you move the line between virtue and offense -- but it will, perhaps, help you obscure the issue and deceive the unwary.
"My race is superior in this one tiny dimension, and it's good that we treat other races as equals in every other dimension" still reduces to "my race is superior" ... with all the arrogance that such a position implies. I also get the impression that this is not a merely academic opinion with you. You do wish it could affect public policy in some way. Brrrrr. But it is nice to know what sort of people I'm dealing with. @Matt: There's a world of difference between having a subconscious bias that you can't help and may not even be aware of, and deliberately advocating for racist ideas. What's happening around here at the moment is definitely the latter. And I agree that it's off-topic. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T234cfbcefa1d1d24-Mcec2245b2b5a03d32c437870 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
