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i made a personal discord server, mostly for organised-nonpublic lifeblogging/thought-dumping/etc. purposes

if we’re mutuals and seeing the above interests you, pm me for an invite, else proceed as you were

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phaeton-flier

I keep seeing birth rates discourse end in "and I guess the long term solution is exowombs" and, ignoring questions of how long such a technology will take to make, that is not the issue with birth rates. The carrying is not the issue, it's the raising and paying for children that's the stop gap. If it became possible to 3D print babies, that would not change the population growth rate more than a little.

If we could somehow solve the care and investment issue—say, by the discovery of magical brownies who loooove taking care of kids and gladly work for a saucer of milk—then the actual production of kids would not be hard. Pregnancy is a pain but not a bad tradeoff, if the kid isn't also a huge time and money suck. And if society still can't make enough kids, surrogacy is a known thing that could be publicly funded.

sigmaleph

i think the imagined solution with exowombs is that once you have decoupled making a child from pregnancy the next step is your state-owned exowombs produce however many babies they need for their population target that year and then they are raised in communal creches staffed by people paid to be there who work in shifts.

which i would not necessarily describe as a 'good idea' tbc

(do you actually need the exowombs for this? can't you just set up the creches and then pay people to get pregnant professionally? idk. probably)

my team at work is mostly spanish speakers but there's a handful of people who are not, and we generally discuss things in english. like everything written down, of course, but also meetings over voice have to be in english when they're there. and you can definitely feel the shift in mood when people realise one of the non-spanish-speakers joined the voice chat and they have to switch languages to one they are less comfortable with.

which probably doesn't feel super welcoming to them

apolladay

Is using generative AI in a professional and/or academic setting always plagiarism

* yes it’s alway plagiarism

* it’s plagiarism in academics but not in a workspace

* it’s plagiarism in a workplace but not in academia

* its plagiarism if you didn’t get your boss/professor’s approval beforehand

* it’s plagiarism if you use it for the majority of the work

* it’s plagiarism if you don’t label it as AI

* it’s plagiarism if you use it for the final draft (brainstorming/first drafts okay)

* it’s plagiarism if you use it for the first draft and rewrite it yourself

* it’s plagiarism if you use it for research

* it’s complicated

* no, it’s not plagiarism if you use generative AI

* see results

Context: OP has a friend who’s a marketing/social media manager for a small company. Their boss has encouraged them to use AI for their post, but the friend feels this is plagiarism

Is using generative AI in a professional and/or academic setting always plagiarism?

yes it’s alway plagiarism

it’s plagiarism in academics but not in a workspace

it’s plagiarism in a workplace but not in academia

its plagiarism if you didn’t get your boss/professor’s approval beforehand

it’s plagiarism if you use it for the majority of the work

it’s plagiarism if you don’t label it as AI

it’s plagiarism if you use it for the final draft (brainstorming/first drafts

it’s plagiarism if you use it for the first draft and rewrite it yourself

it’s plagiarism if you use it for research

it’s complicated

no, it’s not plagiarism if you use generative AI

see results

Remaining time: 6 days 11 hours

Context: OP has a friend who’s a marketing/social media manager for a small company. Their boss has encouraged them to use AI for their post, but the friend feels this is plagiarism

#no #like the idea that ai output is inherently plagiarism of the training data is already stupid #but can you people not conceive of a way to use generative ai that isn't just copypasting the output?

markadoo

ok so this is awkward. when i shouted “floor it” i was actually referring to the brake pedal. i understand now that i wasn’t being specific enough

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cuunos

hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.

#i like greek names aesthetically #and also it's a common enough name nobody can call me out on being conceited for picking it for the literal meaning #(unless they read these tags i guess)

queer-as-city-folk

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

#...what on earth is wrong with pushing around a little cart #or pull. the ones i have in mind you usually pull. not the point #yes you can use a little cart to transport things and this is a common solution for people who do their shopping on foot #why is this being treated like an absurd scenario and not a useful technology

sigmaleph

what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.

i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.

i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.

sophia-epistemia

Features of the Category.

this is a picture of a woman. if you gender someone who looks like this "Sir", you can't not be doing it in bad faith. yeah I'm a bit clocky, if you know what to look for, but my gender is very fucking clearly "Barbie doll".

as for sex. Features of the Category. I have the tits, the hips, the shape, the smooth skin, hairless face, hormone balance, body smell, ways of moving, and the entire style of hair, clothes, and other decorations. and the voice (when I remember and bother and can). I have way more female sexual characteristics than male ones, and those I can't have surgically corrected are not that scarce among people nobody wouldn't think to call women.

sigmaleph

it cannot possibly be news to you that trans women who are not you also exist.

sophia-epistemia

so? transition is switching Features Of The Category. that's what hrt, surgeries, laser, trainings, etc. do, giving additional sex characteristics and modifying existing ones.

sigmaleph

not all trans women have done all those things, and not all of them got the same results from them. some features of the category are difficult to impossible to switch for many trans women

if 'trans women are the same sex as cis women' means that, then the people saying it don't actually count all trans women in that statement.

why are you on a terf tangent

why do you think honest discussion of the variable results of medical transition for trans women is being a terf. do you think trans women only count as women if we look like conventionally attractive cis women, and so acknowledgement that we sometimes don't is the same as rejecting us from womanhood?

sigmaleph

what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.

i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.

i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.

sophia-epistemia

Features of the Category.

this is a picture of a woman. if you gender someone who looks like this "Sir", you can't not be doing it in bad faith. yeah I'm a bit clocky, if you know what to look for, but my gender is very fucking clearly "Barbie doll".

as for sex. Features of the Category. I have the tits, the hips, the shape, the smooth skin, hairless face, hormone balance, body smell, ways of moving, and the entire style of hair, clothes, and other decorations. and the voice (when I remember and bother and can). I have way more female sexual characteristics than male ones, and those I can't have surgically corrected are not that scarce among people nobody wouldn't think to call women.

sigmaleph

it cannot possibly be news to you that trans women who are not you also exist.

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aropride

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

sigmaleph

what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.

i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.

i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.

just-a-random-nerd

Sex is in practice defined by phenotypic expressions. With sufficient estrogen, broadly a given, trans women match much closer with the Woman phenotype than the Man one. One of the points of "trans women are the same sex as cis women" as a slogan is "hormone replacement therapy works and creates a range of changes throughout the body and thus treating these two types of women the same in eg medicine is actually reasonable and sensible" Admittedly it also has political signalling usages that you can agree or disagree with separately.

sigmaleph

With sufficient estrogen, broadly a given, trans women match much closer with the Woman phenotype than the Man one

this is not how estrogen works. quite a few of the effects of having gone through puberty on testosterone will not reverse themselves just because you threw enough estrogen at the problem, and the changes that do happen vary between trans women.

a claim that 'trans women are phenotypically much closer to cis women than cis men' can only be true if you are smuggling a lot more assumptions in there than just 'was on estrogen long enough', and as a trans woman for whom that is not true, i object to trans women positivity posts with the tiny asterisk of "*not including you or anyone who looks too much like you in the category of trans woman"

also. trans women should not be treated the same as cis women or cis men by medicine. we should be treated as appropriate to the amount of medical transition we've undergone. i want my doctors aware of my estrogen levels, and also that i can't get pregnant and I have a prostate.

apolladay

Choose a style of shapeshifting: A: you can change your appearance however you want, at will, WITHIN the bounds of existing, realistic humans* B: you can change into any species of existing animal, at will, but you cannot alter your human appearance

A

B

results

Remaining time: 3 days 14 hours

*you can change your hair color or face shape, for example, but no cat ears or wings. (i will also allow physiological changes ie removing physical disabilities or changing sex characteristics)

#nice as it would be to fly or just Be A Cat Sometimes i would probably still be spending most of my time in human form #so finetuning that is better #even before you start considering things like 'can i become ageless' etc etc

what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.

i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.

i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.

#*as we all know sex isn't real and you can't have it

apolladay

Pokémon?

Pok-ee-mon

Pok-eh-mon

Pocketah Mahnster* (nuance)

Something else?

Results

I keep hearing the younger generation saying EE and it's driving me up a wall just a little 🙃

*this is a joke, not meant to be derogatory. I'm just not sure how else to type that phonetically

Pokémon?

Pok-ee-mon

Pok-eh-mon

Pocketah Mahnster* (nuance)

Something else?

Results

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

I keep hearing the younger generation saying EE and it's driving me up a wall just a little 🙃

*this is a joke, not meant to be derogatory. I'm just not sure how else to type that phonetically

#what an odd way to romanise it #that's aトand a モ why are they making 'ah' sounds

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no-sharks-on-the-sun

You are handed an envelope. Within it is information about a not-especially-close friend. They would strongly prefer you not to know this information and would be quite upset if they learned you had opened it, though they won't know unless you tell them. The information is not in any way related to you or people you know personally other than this friend, and it does not contain information about them doing anything illegal. If it reveals information about them acting immorally, it is something noticeably not as bad as the worst thing you have ever done. The information will not benefit you personally in any way (it's not their bank account password, etc).

Is it unethical to open the envelope? Would you open it?

It is unethical | I would open it

It is not unethical | I would open it

It is unethical | I would not open it

It is not unethical | I would not open it

Remaining time: 2 days 19 hours

#i'm assuming they like. said out loud 'i am giving you this envelope but only if you promise not to open it' and i agreed to it #in that case yeah it's unethical #if not it's probably still unethical but i am less confident.