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“Women” and “People who can become Pregnant” are not synonyms

Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Trans Science!

I can’t believe that someone called Trans people a fetish. I’m not even trans and I’m shaking with fury rn. You don’t deserve all that hate for making a true statement. I support you 100%

for my young trans truscum and even older ones, since many trans survival and helpful guides are not inclusive of ALL trans people, please remember to safely bind and you can always come to me with questions or advice –

Do you believe in the concept of social dysphoria? (Social dysphoria is when a person experiences discomfort with being seen as a male/female and would much rather present as the opposite sex than identify as their birth sex without medically transitioning).

Truscum: I suffer from gender dysphoria induced by my primary and secondary sex characteristics, and desire to transition in order to alleviate said dysphoria. Because of this, I took it upon myself to research the science behind it. I’ve read many articles and gathered enough information (that exists as of now) to conclude that the human brain is sexually dimorphic and determined in the womb, therefore making it possible for a fetus’s brain to develop as the opposite sex’s would. The contrast between the brain structure and the body structure is the cause of dysphoria. Therefore, transsexual people have a neurobiological condition and (in most cases) rightfully seek out medical intervention to alleviate the dysphoria caused by said condition. It does not make sense when individuals who exhibit none of these symptoms label themselves transgender, as the word does not apply to them. Directly ignoring the medical definition of a serious condition can cause a lot of issues for both you and the people who suffer from it. This isn’t necessarily to say that you cannot change your presentation and go under other labels– you can live your own life. However, using transgender terminology for yourself when you do not fit the biological criteria is not something to be taken lightly and can result in a loss of insurance for thousands of trans people who need it.

No one should be pressured to abort.