Comment Re: Ah, yes? (Score 1) 81
If authorities were able to shut down bitcoin support for the Canadian truckers strike, why even outlaw it?
If authorities were able to shut down bitcoin support for the Canadian truckers strike, why even outlaw it?
Would getting arrested for buying drugs count?
What would you do about it? Would you support banning crapto? Would that be as successful as the war on drugs?
Did they take out the refreshing in the new, recalled software?
Do capitalism's efficiency claims come close to reality?
What if conservation laws are the new "planets must orbit in circles because circles give me a perfect vibe"?
What if they hedge by shorting AI even as they major in it?
Are you saying major in finance?
Why were neural nets alone unable to do context-sensitive natural language? Is the attention mechanism which is not a neural net the real paradigm shift?
Why do serious people end up working for clowns on things like making screens jump around?
"fundamentals (like data science, OSI, etc.)"
Do you use those fundamentals to serve man, or just make them do whatever a selfish, greedy boss wants?
Why not make accommodations the norm for everyone?
"The latter need to practise."
Did you just say tests are more about social skills than whatever is being tested?
What if some of us cringe at how arbitrary social skills are and have a gut instinct that tells us playing the current in-vogue social game cuts against our freedom to be ourselves, and cannot understand how you can be any different unless you just like being a conformist?
Remember when it was socially acceptable to smoke pot (Jimi Hendrix, Cheech and Chong) then it became cringe to talk about being your natural stoner self, then states started legalizing it again? Why should I learn to reverse course just because Nancy Reagan said "just say no"?
What if the cringe you feel at socially inadept me says a lot more about you, than about me?
Why do you cringe? Perhaps your cringe reaction to me is as wrong as those who cringed so hard at Turing's homosexuality, they drove him to suicide?
How come I was handcuffed to a hospital bed and involuntarily institutionalized after one attempt? How come my brother had to use the dark web to get the horse tranquilizer he took to end his mental suffering? Why not remove the police's authority to forcefully restrain me as a threat to myself, and let me legally purchase the same pills my brother had to act criminally to get?
When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy