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I wonder at those who fail to care about everyone's rights, all at the same time. As if I should have to pick and choose whose rights to care about; the very nature of rights is that they belong to everyone or no one. Everyone deserves a right to a home in the society that called them, without...

Or if the person was whatever definition of Woman suits Bomb in this particular moment? Why should anyone allow this kind of behavior by anyone? Just fire them or eject them for harassing others. There's no need to bring gender into it at all.

I mean, not even trans people generally support surgical intervention for trans minors. I strongly oppose such surgical intervention for minors. That anyone needs to say this at all is disappointing in and of itself. If someone already has breasts they don't want, they can wait a couple more...

I think it's important to note that as philosophical wisdom flourishes in a society, those who value it will realize that those who want power over socially compatible values will always have a group they are going to try to weaken "the left" with by forcing them to defend rather than attacking...

I figured. I just wanted to be perfectly clear in my post that I didn't fall into such traps of essentialism that say "pink brain OUGHT pink chemical", so much as "pink brain OUGHT have access to pink chemical (and blue chemical, and whatever other chemical)." I do happen to think that...

I will note that my position is specifically that there is A reality to the fact that SOME people will be happier on different hormones. This does not constitute a requirement that they do so and should not ever be considered as such. People are allowed to be unhappy. People should be allowed...

The only exit ramp from that cycle of being abused and being abused some more, and having the law stand behind it, especially according to history, is a smoke stack.

Incompleteness is not itself a limit of validity, only a limit of being able to positively declare "such is all". Systems have structure. If they didn't we could lt build a system with a particular structure such that it exhibited a consistent behavior, and computer science wouldn't be a thing...

Let me ask a question: let's assume you have a conveyer belt. This belt has a "left side" and a "right side". Perhaps if you have played Factorio, this will be more apparent, but this is not necessary. Let's say there is a wall, a physical insulator between the sides. Things push onto the belt...

This isn't a "social" reality. The point is that regardless of where you draw the line, "those are over there"; "these are over here". Relativity is as real a property of nature as locality.

The relatively local group that is at a location. Are you forgetting that locality is still a thing? The border being arbitrarily declared makes it no less a real thing at a real place defined by a real declaration. This border is defined, specifically, by a particular will. Again back to...

I wouldn't say the "answers to" is a sensible concept. I don't answer to my past, even if the things of the past made me as I am. We are incapable of being absolutely inviolate in our agency? So what? We are capable of maintaining agency to a fairly high degree, far more so than the rock, to...

Agency in a result is computation towards that result. All computers are agents because all interactive participation is agency, and computation is interactive participation. I literally create agents all day every day to exercise a specific shape of agency towards some outcome. I am an agent...

It was clear and apparent that the original arguments were not rooted in reality. Case study NEVER is towards such arguments. Such case study bases are facially invalid.

Because I spent my whole life trying to understand what emotions are, studying not just LLMs but all sorts of different formats of artificial neural networks. Spent months even after I graduated doing an experiment to extract a sentiment analysis, a primitive incomplete vector representation...

That's like saying computation doesn't happen... There is a conversation, an exchange of phenomena that can reasonably only come from some manner of complex particle types existing on the distant system, a grand and subtle exchanging of information causing change of states. You are not in the...

No, I said "rooted in reality". That's what we're discussing here, when something is rooted in reality, rather than some make believe image of it. It's actually a remarkably high bar. Arguments on simple case study are not "rooted in reality", they are unmoored from the reality of prevalence...

I think, rather, that "eye" -- like "woman" or "male" -- is a proximal concept (and also a cluster concept). Is the electric eye of phone an "eye"? Seeing as it was assembled, which parts of the assembly must be just-so before it becomes an "eye"? Were I to begin assembling cells together, what...

My point is that those fears weren't rooted in reality, they were rooted in a false perception of reality: there were as many or more cases of white men raping black women! Case study doesn't produce trend and I find it ridiculous to believe that any apparent trend was a function of race so much...

...usage: "they" will be understood by whoever I say it to, in the way that I say it, outside the desire to be willfully obtuse as to the intent*. The exception here seems to be that I won't be able to be understood in as quantity-ambiguous a way as I might like, in that people will assume a...