I just don't think it's as much of a random fad for kids as conservatives worry.

the analogy of "oh i want a cool new weird haircut/strange tattoo" = same as getting hormones and genital altering surgery seems incorrect to me

kids are not that stupid at that age and gender is mostly hardwired. i just don't think kids of that age would take it trivially

many trans kids exhibit extreme opposite gender behavior from very early ages. I am not talking about boys liking pink or not liking trucks, i am talking about boys crying because they can't wear dresses and hating the male parts of their body. There is something that happens to some XY or XX brains in utero that causes the default brain wiring that causes certain behavior to be the opposite of what it normally is. This shouldn't be that unfathomable. There are animals that contain DNA from before certain evolutions (like tailless animals having tail DNA) and it's just turned off. The idea that epigenetics, prenatal hormone levels, and endocrine disruptors can't alter sexual identity development isn't really supported by data, and even though the exact way transgenderism occurs isn't fully understood, it's not caused by some evil Satanic vodoo or a liberal Hollywood plot.

The only reason why this isn't accepted as true is an anti-science mentality caused by religion, and your response is biased by religion or conformity whether you realize it or not.

Can we compromise? No trans people in sports and trans people have their own unique prison or cell block and young teens can take puberty blockers and estrogen so they don't need to try to pay 150,000 in facial feminization plastic surgery at 18 or 19, money of which they can only get quickly from sex work and not going to school? Sound like a good compromise?

Remove the bottom 75% of IQs in the bell curve, then take that group and choose the top 1/3 of the most technologically literate, then you have lemmy

It's just that extremely high intelligence and extreme knowledge about tech happen to correlate with certain views that aren't based on mythological bullshit. But yeah, I guess you could call that an echo chamber?

thanks, i'll probably need it at the current trajectory that the US is on. if i am wrong and being executed by a hoard of Nazis/neo-conservatives in the future, i'll think of you and realize you were right and i was wrong.

Because there are only 2 possibilities:

1. Trans people are real and the Bible is a book filled to the brim with bullshit

or

2. Trans people are not real but merely EVIL men and women possessed by Satan because god created Adam and Eve, not they and them

They are in fact mutually exclusive. So what do you think the moron cult members will choose, the option that requires deprogramming... or the option that aligns with their stupid bullshit cult beliefs?

i'm jewish and gay... and more scared of totalitarian "benevolent" governments than nazis. at least nazis let you die. benevolent governments think your thoughts and existence are property of the state.

I think it's incorrect to link all the January 6th protestors with actual Neo-Nazis and that sort of hyperbole was part of the reason Democrats were out of touch with how regular people felt. Neo-Nazis are partly increasing because of the memification of racism, giving racism a more viral quality, combined with how fast society is changing and people incorrectly making sense of it through racism.

It's horrible and racist but at least there is free speech. It's too bad we can't have free speech without this sort of thing. Perhaps one day people will become kinder and less racist. It scares me but the alternative of no free speech scares me more.

There is an Alibaba LLM that won't respond to questions about Tienanmen Square at all, just saying it can't reply.

I hate censored LLMs that don't allow an answer to follow political norms of what is acceptable. It's such a slippery slope towards technological thought-police Orwellian restrictions on topics. I don't like it when China does it or when the US does it and when US companies do it, they imply that this is ethically acceptable.

Fortunately, there are many LLMs that aren't censored.

I would rather have an Alibaba LLM just say "Tienanmen Square resulted in fatalities but capitalism is extremely mean to people so the cruelty was justified" and get some sort of brutal but at least honest opinion, or outright deny it if that's their position. I suppose the reality is any answer on the topic by the LLM would result in problems from Chinese censors.

I used to be a somewhat extreme capitalist, but capitalism somewhat lost me when they started putting up the anti-homeless architecture. Spikes on the ground to keep people from sleeping? If this is the outcome of capitalism, I need to either adopt a different political position or more misanthropy.

Gemini is such a bad LLM from everything I've seen and read that it's hard to know if this sort of censorship is an error or a feature.

In defense of Gemini, from my unfortunate dealings with Social Workers, I found many of them were lazy and inefficient and extracted a lot of resources from society without providing that much value back. There are seemed to be few objective measurements for whether they improved outcomes in quantifiable comparable ways.

In this situation you have a social worker in training, already a lazy and inefficient profession, who is so lazy and unethical they are having AI do all their classwork. This is early in their career, when they are supposed to be bright-eyed and eager to help.

I don't like Gemini as much as other models, but what if Gemini was being honest and making a valid point?

i'm so sorry to the people of lemmy who earlier said this was a genocide and whom i second-guessed

it's just blatant what it is at this point

i am poor, but is there any organization i can donate to a small token amount to show my support? I feel bad for doing nothing, I'm like the people in America who watched Hitler do horrible things in Europe and shrugged. There's not much I can do, and I don't have the stomach nor good character for a self-immolation protest, but I should do something. is there anything to do?

people don't understand computers or hacking just like they don't understand global warming or math

all they need is 1 0day exploit to get the code for the machines

and 1 0 day exploit on the machines

the idea that it's impossible or unlikely now is absurd, justlike the idea it was impossible in 2020 was absurd, which is why it was so apalling to call the Jan 6 protesters insurrectionists instead of protesters

I believe this man. Some countries with an interest in this election have brilliant hackers,just beyond what I could ever understand, but I'm not a programmer or hacker, just someone who likes linux

no one will believe or understand this person, just like no one will believe in global warming and stop believing in jesus until climate ecological collapse

oh well