Need basic infrastructure

You both like Debate.

You: Hello. I'm Adam. Here to argue or just chat.

Stranger: Yo, Aden, same. Anyting in particular you'd want to debate.

You: Depends

You: Where are you from?

Stranger: Canada.

You: US

You: So as individuals we have time or money, what is the best way to lessen absolute poverty (abroad)

You: i.e., marginally

Stranger: Hm, do you mean whether it's better to invest time, or money?

You: Um, sure. I think it's more impact for me to use my income rather than volunteer

You: It's just to get the ball rolling really

Stranger: Okay, well I think it depends on what you spend your money or time on, obviously. Education has proben to be one of the most efficient ways to decrease poverty in any third world country.

You: Absolutely

You: And deworming initiatives for children allow them to do better in school

Stranger: Hm, here's something I've been considering relating to this, how AI could be used within education.

Stranger: I think that developing AI to help within education could greatly reduce costs in lowering bureaucracy

You: AI in what way?

Stranger: In the machine learning way, neural networks and the such. A good example is DeepMind's AlphaZero.

You: But isn't that just for games?

You: I still don't get how AI factors in

Stranger: Nah, not really. It's just tested in games because they're closed systems that have point systems so improvement is easy to document.

Stranger: But in theory it should work for pretty much any closed system, as long as you plug in the rules to the system.

You: Again, how does that factor into education?

Stranger: Well in theory you could vastly reduce the need for teachers to grade papers or assignments, the program could read through it and give it an automatic mark in comparison to a benchmark.

You: Um, you don't need AI for that.

You: Online quizzes already have automatic grading.

You: Are we on a tangent

You: unrelated to the developing world?

Stranger: Yeah, but those are often multiple choice or single word answer. I'm saying an entire paper could be graded efficiently.

You: I hope you realize that the developing world does not have computers in the first place

You: A primary school in Ghana I know has one.

You: But what you're suggesting is not really viable

Stranger: Yes, I do. But the internet is becoming more and more available as well as technology being produced at a more efficient rate. Of course this is a suggestion more made for once an initial infrastructure has been laid out.

You: I don't think that will happen in our lifetimes.

Stranger: Eh, that's being a bit downtrodden, no? Look at the rate in which we're able to produce things nowadays, I think the only real issue is how to make it profitable to help out the less developed areas of the world.

You: From what I know, it's realistic.

You: People going to free primary school do not have money to buy a bunch of computers

Stranger: True, that's why I said you just have to find some way to make it profitable to help out these places, one way I could think to make it profitable.

You: It's not profitable though

You: It's not a consumer good.

Stranger: I think you can design ways for it to be, for example in exchange for the assistance of helping develop education in x place, you may start a solar farm of x size here.

You: Nope, that definitely would not work

Stranger: Perhaps not, but space is a commodity that most developed countries need, especially some place like China.

You: One, that's vaguely simiar to what the US gov't tried implementing in Haiti. Two, they don't need a solar farm.

Stranger: Power generation is useful for pretty much everybody, especially if you sell it back to the community where it's located.

You: They don't need power though. They need extremely basic infrastructure like roads

Vegetarian

You both like vegetarian.

You: Hello. I'd like to argue something. Or why are you here?

Stranger: I like a good argument haha

You: Great

You: Why are you vegetarian?

Stranger: Because I don't want to eat as many animals as I can avoid in my life. I've butchered animals and I don't like it. If I don't have a heart to do it, then why have someone else do it? It's also better for the Earth.

Stranger: Monocropping is bad enough without doing it to raise cows, pigs, and chickens.

Stranger: How are you, by the way?

You: I'm good

Stranger: Awesome, was my answer sufficient to satiate you?

Stranger: You said argue, so what point do you want me to learn?

You: I need a 10 min break

You: sorry, please wait

Stranger: That's fine

Stranger: I'm just watching Joe Rogan anyways Haha

Stranger: So what did you want to argue? We could just talk about it like two people, we don't need to be throwing other people's opinions or sources around

You: Ok, so I came back

You: and there's this idiot trying to argue against veganism

You: but now he just stopped

Stranger: Ah okay

You: and his reply is mere apathy

You: =)

Stranger: Interesting

Stranger: Yeah every belief system or anything in life has extremists

You: He's the middle though

You: I mean

You: He starts shooting in the dark

You: And then once he hears my argument

You: He's like, "I really don't care."

Stranger: What are your ideas?

You: lol

You: about veganism?

Stranger: Or vegetarianism. You tried talking about it earlier

Stranger: Or what are your opinions

You: suffering

You: unnecessary suffering

You: of certain animals

You: like dairy cows and chickens

Stranger: Okay, why?

You: why what?

Stranger: You aren't formulating an argument or making any sense.

You: I usually argue for veganism based on certain animal's living conditions in the US.

You: i.e., suffering, not slaughter

Stranger: The only thing that's acceptable to me is regulated necessary hunting for food.

Stranger: I'm not a big supporter of animal farming.

You: ya

You: Yesterday some dude was trying to argue against veganism

You: he stated that crop and animal factory farming was equally bad

Stranger: It can't be equal though.

Stranger: That's stupid.

You: regardless

You: so I brought up the fact that for every lb of beef it takes 12 lb of crops

You: so quantitatively

You: by simple math

You: he supports veganism

You: ...he didn't get it

Stranger: A large percent of our crops go to raising animals.

Stranger: Yeah he doesn't sound very smart.

You: meh, he could've been young

Stranger: Yeah. Possibly

Stranger: I learned a lot about it in my AP environmental science class and reading about it in my free time

Stranger: Simply learning about trophic levels should be sufficient evidence for that.

You: I don't know

You: That's been a typical side remark

You: You didn't do any research!

Stranger: Lol

You: ...on some irrelevant point

You: Anyway

You: Have you found a good tasting protein mix?

You: I'm trying to find a good vanilla one

Stranger: Me? I don't take very much. My body does well with the protein I get. I take peanut butter powder but that's it

Stranger: I do armwrestling and calisthenics, so yeah. Most vanilla stuff is either soy or pea protein. Soy powder isn't my favorite

You: Ok

Stranger: Hemp is pretty nice if you can deal with the fiber haha

Stranger: Protein powders are usually expensive anyways, I like homemade seitan, it's pretty easy to make

You: Well, I like to make shakes

Stranger: Try mixing chia and flax with some hemp

You: baller

Stranger: Lol it's just good food to ingest

Stranger: I like pb powder because it's really smoothe and you can consume a lot of protein that way. Whey always tasted gross to me

Stranger: *smooth

You: I don't know anything about you really

Stranger: Yeah I'm a man. A biochemistry student

You: coolio

Stranger: Ya, some women taste like urine and malic acid. It happens

Stranger: I'm not sure if that's vegan though haha

You: hmmm

You: perhaps with non-formal situations I will bring up this joke

Stranger: Sounds like a plan

Stranger: Are you still a student?

You: sadly

Stranger: My apologies, I'm from the US btw, school sucks

You: Wisconsin

Stranger: West Virginia here

You: Groovy.

Stranger: I've never been to Wisconsin, do you like it there?

You: It's just a place

Stranger: Everywhere is unique though.

Stranger: Are you okay? You act really weird every now and then. I don't know you personally though.

You: I hope you don't mind. I have two chats open.

You: You and another.

Stranger: Tell the guy I said hi

Stranger: 😂

Stranger: Yeah you aren't really asking anything about me or starting conversations, or giving anything insightful. It's a bit dull, for future reference. I didn't

You: Honestly, I didn't get much sleep yesterday

You: I'm dull, ya

You: Do you have quora?

Stranger: Yeah I have quora

You: what is it?

Stranger: I mean, I know how to share it on Facebook and stuff, but my email is 
hidden

You: sharing emails never works

You: I've tried it

You: quora.com/profile/Adam-Uraynar

Stranger: Interesting last name. Are you near Sheboygan😂

You: That's where I grew up

You: 3.5 hours away now

Stranger: Awesome

Stranger: I looked at your profile and followed you by the way, you seem pretty smart, I wasn't trying to be mean earlier or anything. I just had trouble reading you. Are you a little introverted?

You: I wouldn't say so ~ ambivert

Stranger: Yeah I'm probably about the same

Stranger: Most people that are honest would say so

You: I think most people pigeonhole themselves

Stranger: Yeah I can see that

Stranger: I wasn't meaning to classify you as simply introverted earlier, just speaking about different characteristics I was picking up. People are complicated creatures with a spectrum of different personality characteristics. It would be dumb to categorize people like that.

You: I don't read too much into things, don't worry

Stranger: Who would you say is your favorite philosopher?

You: Today?

You: Peter Singer

Stranger: He's done some great work

Stranger: It's nice to see somebody like him and his views on bioethics.

You: I agree.

Stranger: I have some laboratory classes in biology, and I don't particularly care much for a lot of what's going on. Especially with how some people treat the lab animals

Stranger: Hey, we can chat some time if you'd like, I have some meditation to do before I sleep, it will take about 2 hours probably

You: where?

Stranger: Do you have any preferred social media?

Stranger: I have most lol

Stranger: I know quora links with some

You: facebook

Intro to EA

You: Hey. 23. Like discussing what to do about absolute poverty. Open to other topics too.

Stranger: What're your solutions?

You: A solution to ending all extreme/absolute poverty?

You: I did not mean that

You: Just mean doing what I can do to help

Stranger: Ah, okay

You: So depending on one's circumstances

You: it's just spending time doing certain volunteering

You: or, usually better, which charity one's money supports

You: And that's assuming one keeps their original career path

You: Because it may be better to change careers, but I just don't want to

Stranger: What do you do?

You: for my occupation or which charities I support?

Stranger: Occupation

Stranger: Well, both

You: college

You: electrical engineering

You: Against Malaria Foundation

You: or SCI

You: Although, I've supported GiveDirectly too

[Then talked about what they wanted to talk about.]

masturbate with sand paper

You both like philosophy.

You: Hello. I'm Adam. Here to argue or just chat.

Stranger: Hey adam

Stranger: do you know that guy that says

Stranger: trapped faggot dance

You: It's not a guy

You: It's a bot

Stranger: no its a real person

Stranger: I have spoken with him

Stranger: usually its only a few lines before he leaves

You: I mean, a person sets up the code

You: but at the end of the day, a bot is a bot

Stranger: i was just arguing with him

You: about?

Stranger: i was just telling him he’s crazy and he was actually responding

Stranger: its the furthest ive gotten

You: so a bot can respond to keywords you know

Stranger: im trying to see if anyone else has talked to him more in depth

Stranger: no it wasn’t a bot because he was commenting on what i said

Stranger: i said hes here every day

You: in what detail?

You: I'm pretty sure it's still a bot

Stranger: well I am sure he uses a bot

Stranger: but you can still type with the bot software

Stranger: when you want to

You: I know.

Stranger: try talking to him

You: I'm developing one myself

You: No, I have no interest

Stranger: i need to get to the source

Stranger: what u need a bot for

You: I've encountered a better program before

You: I say the same things in the beginning

You: It's a waste of time

Stranger: so why would a bot be better than copy paste if its just for the beginning

You: a bot is always better than copy/paste

You: I don't think you realize how many conversations I have here

You: hundreds

Stranger: really

Stranger: there are actually that many people worth talking to

Stranger: just on this tag?

You: no, I have several tags

Stranger: which do you like the most

You: effective altruism

Stranger: that tag has more than one person on it?

You: ha

You: very seldom

Stranger: whats your second favorite then

Stranger: I mean where u have the best conversations

You: effective altruism

You: That's the only one.

You: Do you mean the best one conversation?

You: Then I would choose 'death'

Stranger: lol

Stranger: the death tag

You: I chatted with this person from the UK that is going to die by about Christmas

You: inoperable brain tumor

Stranger: gnarly brother

Stranger: I meant which tag you generally have good conversations

You: there is no such tag

You: most conversations are shitty

Stranger: agreed

Stranger: in fact I feel worse the more time I spend here usually

You: oh, that's sad I suppose

Stranger: yeah its just satisfying in a really shitty way

Stranger: like if i could only masturbate with sand paper

You: lololol

Stranger: effective altruism

You: omg

You: that's so true!!

Stranger: do you like peter singer?