Resin printers yes, FDM printers no (altho you can always just scale up the model. :P)
Resin printers yes, FDM printers no (altho you can always just scale up the model. :P)
As much as I like some of the companies he’s invested in, Musk isn’t exactly a reliable source of accurate scientific information.
Captchas are even easier to get around, and when a spammer buys a bunch of VOIP numbers there’s a pattern that can be blocked/banned whereas if they pay some workers a few bucks to solve a few thousand captchas there’s not exactly anything as identifiable there.
The idea of having a BCI, a device which can read, write and override thoughts is extremely concerning.
That’s…not what a BCI is, though? It’s just any direct interface between brain and computer. Doing anything with thoughts is not an inherent aspect of the concept—if you look at fiction you’ll see plenty of BCIs that are limited to receiving motor signals directed at them and sending sensory signals. And AFAIK a lot of current research into BCIs is focused on just reading motor signals (for prosthetics and such).
To compare it to gender dysphoria though, you’d have to be severely obese, or severely underweight, and believe you are the other one that you physically aren’t. If I weighed 400 lbs but believed I was actually a starving person that’s underweight, for example.
This… isn’t analogous. Being aware of and unhappy about the mismatch is specifically what makes it a dysphoria.
The questions were less about me getting your answer but more about pointing out how general the definition you gave was, and probing if your actual intended meaning was that vague. From looking at other comments, though, it looks like you did give someone else a more specific definition of what you meant:
I’m talking about the kind of uncomfortable that makes people consider surgery as the only alternative to suicide. I would consider that an illness.
Firstly, I’d like to point out that just HRT is both not surgery and sufficient for many trans individuals.
But, let’s say someone is extremely overweight, and they’ve been prevented from using regular methods (i.e. dieting and exercise), so their only option is surgery. If prevented from undergoing the surgery, don’t you think that depression and potentially even suicide are possible outcomes. Would this scenario, hypothetical though it may be, not also meet those requirements?
Now, let me tell you about Lipedema, a condition where large amounts of fat builds up on the legs. Regular diet and exercise methods can help with some symptoms, but cannot stop or reverse the condition. Liposuction (a fat-removal surgery), however, works—although it’s not a permanent fix yet and still can damage the body in the process. It fairly commonly can result in depression.
In a more general sense, “feeling uncomfortable in one’s own skin” is such a vague descriptor that it plausibly covers basically any nonlethal condition that can negatively affect an individual’s quality of life.
Homosexuality is pretty cool biology wise. The markers that predetermine it are predictable in the womb and seem to be an actual evolutionary trait. Which I was really surprised to learn. If something proves transgender stuff is similar, that’d be very interesting.
The physiological differences between men and women are dictated by the ratios of specific types of hormones during development: estrogens for female traits, androgens for male traits. The handful of genes responsible for these mutate reasonably commonly with fairly neutral effect, but more significant mutations can cause inequal development of male and female physiology. Mutations to the srY gene, a keystone of gender expression, can also cause these sorts of effects.
Some examples of such effects include:
Additionally, hormones are spread around by regular, chaotic fluid dynamics, and fetuses don’t grow in a vacuum, but rather inside a sac inside another person who is producing their own hormones. Therefore, it’s rather unlikely all parts of the body will actually receive equal ratios of androgens and estrogens - which can lead to, for instance, the brain developing in a structure and exhibity measurably more like the ‘typical’ female brain structure despite the individual’s physiology being overall male. There have been actual brain scans done of transgender individuals that identify this, AFAIK.
I don’t understand how not feeling comfortable in your own skin isn’t an illness.
I’d like to probe this with examples of other things that can be reasonably accurately described as some version of “not feeling comfortable in your own skin” (I’d like to be clear that these are examples for you to assess this idea with—I think there are reasonable arguments for and against these being illnesses. What I’d like to know is if these examples that would reasonably be considered an illness under that definition actually align with what you think an illness is?):
Is disliking being overweight an illness? What about being underweight?
If you’re born missing a limb, is it an illness if you want a prosthetic?
If you don’t like your voice, is wanting to do voice training illness? What about greying hair? Or hair loss?
From another angle, given the problem is a mismatch between mind and body, is changing the mind (i.e. the person) better than changing the body? Even in terms of simple capabilities, changing the body is much easier and more doable for modern medicine than changing the mind. We’ve been developing antidepressants, for example, for 50 years, and they still can cause depression as a side effect.
One could certainly argue that the income inequality isn’t the only cause, rather the artificially limited housing supply. But, regardless of the cause of the housing crisis there, or potential solutions, I think it provides an example of how inequality can have a negative effect on someone.
I mean, yeah, it does show how wealth inequality can be some part of causing a negative effect in a specific situation. But, the deeper causes are kinda important if you want to use it as an example of how specifically wealth inequality by itself would cause negative effects.
I fundamentally question the claim that wealth inequality is bad in and of itself. It doesn’t really harm me that there exist individuals with significantly higher standards of living, or that there exist individuals more capable of effecting large-scale change than me.
Also, it’s not exactly as though any system can somehow remove bad actors and/or human error/foolishness from the equation. But the scenario I described specifically defined them as being beholden to normal rule of law, therefore limiting the effect of maliciousness on their part to what I would consider a reasonable degree
I’m not sure “they might be foolish” is really that much of a downside either—them allocating resources to long-shot ideas is kinda part of the benefit, and if they throw money at some boondoggle like Elon’s hyperloop… oh well, it’s not like that money up and vanished. It’s not exactly as though paying a bunch of people to consider a foolish idea and build prototypes really meaningfully harmed them or society as a whole.
I think a reasonably optimal meal would be at least 10 “Fruits of Evolution” (from “The Fruit of Evolution”) to provide classic Isekai cheat powers, drenched in the Ambrosia of the Greek Gods to grant immortality.
Having individuals (or very small groups) who hold significant power/capital (but are still subject to the rule of law) can be societally useful because they can push forward large-scale, high-cost projects without needing to convince vast numbers of people to care about it.
I vaguely remember reading about some organization that actually fabricated charges of CP against individuals/groups they didn’t like, and then pretend to “lose” their evidence and drop it… once the court of public opinion had destroyed their target.
There was actually an old stigma that being gay was the same thing as being a pedophile.
If you want to muck around with AI, I’d recommend taking a look at Kaggle. They’ll just give you a bunch of boxes to run machine learning & stuff on, completely free. They also give everyone an allocation of 30 hours/week of access to an Nvidia P100 GPU.