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  • It's a misnomer, but if you want to pass off LLMs as "artificial intelligence" on technicality of definition, you'd also have to include

    advanced web search engines (e.g., Google Search), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix)

    etc.

  • Probably because there is a nugget of quality and a whole lot of nuggets of attention attraction built into the game. Check out Vampire Survivors sometime, it's free on Android and it doesn't have ads (unless you go out of your way to click the button that says "view an ad"). And it was developed by someone who had previously worked at a casino.

    It's the same reason somebody relentlessly checks Twitter, it triggers the same dopamine receptors.

  • To quote Ben Shapiro, "facts don't care about your feelings."

    All too often, parents think their feelings should override medical fact, and when this happens, it's medical abuse. Doesn't matter whether it's over transgender children or other life saving medicine.

    Politicizing medical gatekeeping is stupid.

    • We give puberty blockers to children experiencing puberty too early.
    • Girls with back issues can get breast reductions.
    • Transition surgery experience regret rates a fraction the size of typical cosmetic surgeries

    So why is there so much outage when it's "trans" and not something else?

    I'd turn this around on you: where's your source of concern? Where'd it come from? Right now the Republican party has no platform besides complaining about transgender people. They've been introducing anti-trans legislation at a breakneck speed, attacking adults, demanding conversion therapy.

    This isn't about kids, never was. The people complaining hate kids and see them as property.

  • Much ado about nothing. The biggest freak-outs about this tend to be by people who weren't even particularly good to begin with. Like Taylor Silverman, the skater who lost to a trans woman... And multiple children as young as ten.

    If you want to talk about hormone levels and time spent transitioning, there's a conversation to be had, but the right isn't having it. For example, the movie Lady Ballers was supposed to be a documentary that proved men could dominate women's sports by pretending to be transgender, but everybody involved eventually backed out after discovering the effort it would take to actually transition, even for the purpose of showing up the so-called woke left.

    During a recent episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, cast member and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro — whose previous credits include spending nearly 45 minutes throwing a tantrum over the Barbie movie’s existence — said that they originally intended to make as a documentary. But then they found out that (gasp!) a group of bigoted cis men in bad wigs can’t simply participate in women’s sports.

    “As it turns out, most ladies’ leagues don’t allow any actual men, and [the actors] weren’t willing to go the full distance in terms of what it would require, the actual hormone treatments, to actually play in ladies’ leagues,” Shapiro admitted during an interview with Boering about the film

    Of course, those conversations about testosterone levels will also unfairly target black women, who have been targeted in the past by the same shrill white women using almost the exact same tactics as we see today.