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I'm not a lawyer but based on some googling it seems like the overwhelming consensus is that selling transcribed sheet music or tabs if you do not have permission from the copyrigh…

Can you point to where these ideas have been confirmed as objectively not true?

Just a reminder that there is nothing new about reversing autism-like symptoms in mice. And that autism in humans is not well-defined. And that whether or not varying severities of…

Compilation speed on typst is crazy

Maybe you could set your manual version as the main branch and then have a separate AI-cleaned branch on the side? I think the manual version part is what is exciting people and dr…

There are women construction workers, garbage people, and firefighters. There are much better reasons why these fields have disproportionately fewer women than a biological barrier…

Where exactly is the physical strength of males necessary in modern society? The only circumstance in which there are men strong enough to so something that women can't do is at th…

Where is the evidence that this is the case in humans?

If strength is relevant, should particularly weak boys be "treated like girls"? Should particularly strong girls be "treated like boys"? Should girls and women without functioning …

Of course the language abilities of LLMs is not proof of consciousness at all. If some alien entity made a model that was truly just 10^1000 hard-coded if-statements to respond to …

I agree you can't practically get the same information as you could with telemetry. Survey data is still real data that can be used for "analytics". Some people also hate telemetry…

You could survey a representative sample

Side comment: |> and %>% aren't the same btw! The newish base pipe (|>) is faster but doesn't support using the dot (.) placeholder to pipe into something other than the first argu…

If you force something major and permanent on somebody without their consent for no good reason, of course it would be evil. It would be evil to force somebody gay to be straight a…

What exactly is logically impossible about people with down syndrome being happier on average than those without it?

Problem of induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

That is only part of the equation. You may be removing more malevolent actors in the immediate short term, but depending on how that policing is done, you might also be creating mo…

If you start with hypothetical demographic groups A and B that are for all intents and purposes exactly identical, but you implement a system such that if A commits a crime they ha…