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Scientist turned software engineer. He/him
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'One kind of microbe, Methylobacterium, uses energy in sunlight to break down organic carbon inside cloud droplets. In other words these bacteria eat clouds. By one estimate, cloud microbes break down a million tons of organic carbon worldwide annually.' @carlzimmer.com
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"diversity of what thoughts, specifically?"
> "oh, you know the ones"
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This is the quote I just gave to my med director to share with our clinic board: "Just as I would never remove pressure from a hemorrhaging femoral artery because a patient could die otherwise, I WILL NOT stop providing gender affirming care to my patients because they might die otherwise."
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"RFK might establish common-sense research priorities"
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I genuinely do not understand people like this. The entire argument of the piece appears to be "I have minor quibbles with existing NIH research priorities, therefore I am rooting for the people destroying it root and branch."
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampste...
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Normally an AI gaining self-awareness would be a scientific marvel and perhaps a cause for concern, but Chat GPT being more self-aware than the average TERF isn't particularly impressive.
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The replies to that tweet are wild!
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It's vile, and we all know what she's getting at, but absolutely not - her expensive lawyers will say that "porn-addled perverts" are not a protected characteristic in any law, and that she did not call for any violence, merely "confrontation" of antisocial behaviour. And that will be the end of it.
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Sure a lot of psychologists say a huge risk with LLMs is that they are so eager to agree with whatever a user says they'll dangerous reinforce whatever a user believes.
But they hadn't reckoned with Bindel's views being so vile she'd overcome that.
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For comparison - one of the most prominent recent convictions for inciting racial hatred - which included an explicit call to violence in an already heated and violent context:
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Also, importantly, the Public Order Act 1986 does not include gender identity or trans status for the offence of incitement to hatred - only race, religion and sexual orientation.
www.college.police.uk/app/major-in...
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Under UK law I don't think this stands a chance, unfortunately.
The bar is extremely high - unless someone posts "This <minority group> are a bunch of <slurs> and you should go out right now and <describes explicit acts of violence>" then it's treated as free speech.