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That seems to be a problem with these types of discussions. You can make reasoned arguments, but someone comes along and wants to derail the thread by considering everything in the world that he personally considers an injustice, or some other inane argument, and you end up getting lumped in with them. We are discussing reparations to American people due to the effects of slavery and racism. Thank you.

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One detail I should add stick to the same direction while grinding or polishing.

That could be it, but then again the thing about the internet is that it makes everything very readily available to everyone. So it could equally be that people can for the first time easily “shop around” for worldviews/lifestyles/belief systems they find personally appealing, at least to try them out for a bit, to a degree that previous generations would have found much more difficult.

My intuitive answer would be that CHATGPT and similar could be implemented on a Turing Machine. But here are some thoughts; hopefully others may add some insights. Assumptions that as far as I know are sound in this context: 1: CHATGPT and similar systems are build from components that can be realised by Turing machines. 2: The architecture of CHATGPT (and others) is based on distributed components and interacting concurrent computational resources. 3: Frequent changes occur through intentional updates and upgrades, unintentional failures, user interaction etc. There are other computational models than Turing, for instance Hewitt's Actor model of computation. Short description* Question: Is the Actor model of computation more suitable than Turing machine for a large distributed system such as CHATGPT? I don't not know; assume for this discussion that the answer is "yes" and move on to one of Hewitt's claims* This could mean that there may be more to @studiot's initial question than I initially thought (hence my late answer in this thread). Your thoughts? *) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.1459.pdf. (I chose to not go into details about the differences between the models and their applicability in this post)

In other words, it might be a good idea to revamp categories and rules so that folks can compete according to ability rather than based on genitals they were born with?

People used to grow up in more homogeneous communities, which tended to encyst belief systems. Now we live in an information-rich global village where it's more like going to a huge supermarket of beliefs. 14 brands, 87 varieties of pasta, and that's just half of Aisle 7. For my parents, growing up in small towns on the Great Plains, it was a big leap to go from being raised Lutheran to attending an Episcopal service. For my generation, it was much less a leap to go from Episcopal to joining a Buddhist meditation group.

From a different perspective, it appeared you were badgering a newbie, @Benjamin Karl, who was not making a claim but rather requesting opinions on the claims made in a video. Whose points he courteously summarized when asked to. While he could be encouraged to dig deeper for other sources, I am not sure that your tone was that of a friendly guide in that quest.

Keeping it relevant (see P:"It's possible you have a problem in comprehension." J:"It's obvious that you don't want to comprehend CDA."), which of your two sets. M0 or M1, is one where you know that the conditions Cantor placed on the set S hold true?" That is, the Ei's in these conditions: If E1, E2, …, Ev, … is any simply infinite [einfach unendliche] series of elements of the manifold M .... If you can't show that either M0 or M1 can be put into such a list, then any answer to your question has no significance to CDA. But the answer is s=0000... can be in subset S0 of M0 that can be put into a list as Cantor requires. There are listable subsets S0' that do not have s=0000... as a member. s=1111... can be in subset S1 of M1 that can be put into a list as Cantor requires. There are listable subsets S1' that do not have s=1111... as a member. Now, if you will stop trying to change the details of CDA to fit your incorrect criticism of it, we can discuss why it is a valid proof. But if you continue to misrepresent it, we can't. Whether or not you interpret such writing correctly (you don't), they have no bearing on the mathematical proof called CDA.

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Sometimes you see the perfect fruit showing underneath some others and you tug at it and it just won't....budgie.

One corollary from that is that some folks focus on specific and individual damages, but overlook systemic challenges (such as long term impact of getting removed from economic and other benefits, invisible but baked in racialized policies, where color-blind application would perpetuate those harms, confinement in underdeveloped areas and so on). A second is that often these issues are seen as a weird zero-sum game. I.e. it seems that the argument is that systematically excluding one group from economic and societal gains is somehow the same as bringing them up to the same level. I.e. as long as the factor that did the division is brought up to remove the suppression, it is equivalent to suppression. Without removing all context, I just fail to see it as a symmetric proposition. I will also say that it is a bit dangerous to generalize these racialized policies based on the case of reparations. That one is something that can and should be more targeted, as there are ways to trace issues in an individualized way. However, general racialized policies cannot be tracked down to individuals (that is just not what policies are) and it is critical identify demarcation lines. For example, universities strive to create a diverse learning environment, but the question is how to recruit them. If we ignore race, the student body tends to be largely income based, resulting in a composition that represents well-off part of the population mostly. Providing stipends for low-income students bolsters that part of the composition, but looking at racial composition, we see that often low-income minorities do not benefit from it much. There are various reasons, starting at which schools they are, and what kind (if any) counseling they get, for example. So targeting those students and schools specifically can bolster the recruitment of minority students and to create the desired teaching environment. What has been shown in the US is that a color-blind application of stipends and benefits, the enrolment of minorities drop (and just to be clear, race would be just one of many factors used for admissions). Thus, the application of a color-blind policy results in racial inequity. And considering the impact of college on future income, it has knock-on effects of future trajectories. In other words, (and as the other articles I have posted) being color-blind can result in racial inequality, the very thing that color-blindness supposedly should end, but which in reality it just promotes (under the current system). I do agree that if we magically resolved every form of racism and racialized policies and dismantled all the systems that create inequality, then we may be able to switch to a color-blind perspective. However, starting with the latter is hitching the cart before the horse and is not getting us anywhere.

And after 21 pages where you've admitted that not all black Americans need to be compensated, and numerous arguments that other groups of Americans were hurt economically by slavery in the US, you still cling to the idea that skin color is a valid discriminator. ( and I'm not counting the deaths incurred by the Union in the war against Confederates; 110000 combat and 250000 other. Are their families owed reparations ? ) TheVat makes some interesting points about responsibility. There has to be societal, as well as personal responsibility. I can teach a man to fish, that is societal responibility, and it provides him with opportunity; if he has personal responsibility, he will fish and feed himself for life. If I simply give him the fish, he eats as long as the fish last. That is equal outcome, but only for a time; without personal responsibility, he will eventually go hungry again. Which approach is better ?

I recently watched a science video about the classes of stars and how they generate energy and it listed brown dwarfs as fusing deuterium, saying that deuterium was easier to fuse than straight up hydrogen and that deuterium fusion was how they got their meger energy... It also mentioned that some of them fused lithium because it was easier to fuse than hydrogen and deuterium. Is this true? If so why is lithium not used as fuel in fusion reactors if it is easier to fuse?

See this computer simulation of the collision:

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Right. Because it only matters if it's happened to Americans. That's a fairly entrenched view in the States. But it's not exactly moral. Vietnamese people can be bombed with Napalm, Phosphorus, and Agent Orange, and waterboarding isn't torture, if it's done to foreigners. It's called double standards.

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I’m am worried though… mate. I reject your premise. You’ve done nothing to support it. All you’ve shared is a YouTube video. That’s not supporting evidence. Said another way: You’ve not answered the question put to you, three times now. You’re evading. Here it is again, for convenience: What is the evidence validating this premise that paganism is supposedly growing? What is the data source? If you drill down into their sources, after you get to the Daily Mail, it then brings you finally a page for something called Quartz. That Quartz page cites a Pew study from 2014… I.e. the same one you already cited above.