Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
A public awareness campaign to teach people about sophisticated technical tools would be incredibly expensive for limited effect. Awareness will rarely atop a sad person from engaging with a dopamine source.
Addressing the issues at their source will always be much much cheaper and more effective.
Yep, the “fairness” argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth. I was listening to a report on the radio just yesterday.
Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.
I’ve heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we’re going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.
A lot of comments here focus on denigrating the users but that’s like making fun of people for dying of flu. Many immune systems at many times can fight off the effects of flu. But even though flu doesn’t want you dead, death is a small risk for everyone and a larger risk for certain populations.
GPT (4 especially) is a system that will cause these effects in a certain percentage of people. It’s similar enough to actual human interaction to produce the same hormonal responses for some people at some times.
Instead of inspiring scorn for the afflicted, these stories should prompt much tighter regulations and penalties for the companies that produce these toxic effects.
Came here to post this exact comment!
I’ve heard it said that as long as investment returns average higher than wage increases, society will continue to get worse.
This and that are also pronouns, just not personal pronouns. Gendered personal pronouns are common across languages but far from universal.
Mandarin has just “tā”, though it’s distinguished in writing as 他/她/它, he/she/it. Chinese speakers often have trouble correctly using he/she in English - “my girlfriend, he is very attractive” is something I heard.
One morning a few months after our first cat died I opened the door and there was a dirty, tailless cat with a long hairless scar running over his hips and wearing a blue bowtie. He put one paw up on the stoop, looked up at me and very politely asked, “Mrow?” So of course I said “Come in Sir”
Turned out his name was in fact Sir, and he’d fled from the kittens he’d sired. He was our little deadbeat baby.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion here but shill-calling is trolling and deleting such comments is the correct thing to do in any online community.
Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you’re talking about Lia Thomas. That’s a single example so not necessarily representative.
"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”
"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”
“…finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability… than their cisgender counterparts.”