I'll let you in on a little secret in the field of AI as someone who's job is AI (computational linguistics); AI is, and has always been, mostly just a fancy word for algorithms, a bunch of if-else/switch/match statements. It doesn't have to be complex...
That being said, you're underestimating how much engineering would go into a program that calculates the groceries you need to buy and where/when. Especially so if it's supposed to be automated, e.g. you're not just putting in how much bread you have currently every time you use bread.
This is wrong. Decimate can mean the killing or destruction of any large portion of something. E.g. one definition you might see is "To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely."
This likely isn't far from the truth, "straightness" is very much associated with culture being oppressive/biased against queerness, and most modern theory on the matter concludes that in a vacuum pansexuality, to varying degrees, is the "norm", and that near-complete heterosexuality and homosexuality are the outliers. Similar thing with monogamy, humans are likely to exhibit non-monogamous behaviours if there's no cultural influence involved – in fact, humans are the only great apes and one of the very few (in the single digits) simians to be observed participating in monogamy. Pretty much every species that is similar to us is primarily or almost entirely non-monogamous.
Outside of cultural pressures for or against certain sexual behaviours, you generally see pansexual and polygamous tendencies in most of the population – although pansexuality isn't as common as non-monogamy, in both humans and other primates; but it is still common in apes in general – especially bonobos, who are extremely similar to humans behaviourally and in the most related genus to us, are extremely social even for primates, and who have demonstrated many archaic human behaviours & advancements, even making/utilizing hunting tools like spears and stone tools devoid of any human influence.
Anyways heterosexuality being the norm is likely mostly the product of cultural pressures rather than "nature". And if we were to somehow magically erase cultural pressures or even the construct of sexuality, most people would exhibit at least somewhat pansexual behaviours, even if they had a strong preference for one sex/gender/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.
Fun fact, bonobos have been shown to be able to competently & rationally communicate in complex English (complex, as in around as well as a conversational/intelligent 3-year old) and can even understand & respond to human speech accurately; they can have a lexicon of hundreds of words, associate those words with concrete ideas/real objects with near-100% accuracy, and distinguish "fake" words from "real" words in English speech. They're the only non-human animals to have been proven to have the ability to actually understand and communicate in human language (both with humans and with other bonobos), and understand human spoken language. They're also in the stone age (an equivalent of it, at least) and can be observed in the wild making intentionally cutting-edge tools (unlike chimps), and also have separately been trained to manufacture Oldowan human archeological industry stone tools and have found ways to use them, but I'm more interested in linguistics than that. It's kind of sad that people sensationalize fraudulent cases of alleged human language comprehension in other non-humans, like Koko the gorilla, when you have the actual phenomenon legitimately right here... It's also sad that bonobos and chimpanzees are caught in the middle of human warfare in the Congo and are being hunted for meat, and are predicted to become extinct within a few decades because of humans... a majority of simians/anthroform primates are likely to go extinct soon, both because they're being eaten and because they're being sold off as exotic pets. We're literally hunting, slave trading, and cannibalizing our closest relatives to extinction, some of which are capable of early human-like thought & society/culture and spontaneous invention of technology only ever seen in archaic humans.
I say we do this: Bonobos in capitivity can already light fires, and they use that cook food. Bonobos and chimapnzees are also highly cultural & social animals, and tool production & cultural customs have been observed to spread within groups and between groups (even of different great ape species/families). We should teach a group or a few of bonobos this skill, watch it spread, and destroy humanity and store the survivors in vats or something. Then, in a few million years, bonobos will have evolved modern human intelligence and sophisticated futuristic technology, and then they'd bring us back to life and out of the vats into the future. And then boom, humans and future bonobos live together happily forever after. It'll be just like Stellaris (not the genocide part though). I'm only joking of course...
There is no such thing as "curing" a mental disorder/disability. Although it could theoretically help speed up recovery from temporary bouts of depression or post-traumatic stress (which is often labelled "PTSD" when it's not), it cannot cure a lifelong disorder like depressive/mood disorders or PTSD & CPTSD. "Curing" a mental disorder would mean making you a completely different person, it's inseparable from the rest of your brain – especially something that leans more into the "neurodivergence" idea, like ADHD or ASD/Autism, which both have imperfect yet effective treatments (ASD less so than ADHD), but "curing" such a thing would be impossible.
The only solution that helps people with disabilities is to make treatment in the form of pharmaceuticals, counselling, and other methods widely available and accessible over the long term – not to look for a cure. Not to say that MDMA can't be used for that though, it definitely can, it'd just be misleading to call it a cure.
I'm from rural Georgia. Not as blatantly bad here, but still pretty bad. It's unbelievable that I can intentionally surround myself with the most left-leaning queer people in the area, those who are constantly harassed/degraded by the average conservatives, and somehow they still buy into a lot of the conservative propaganda and anti-queer/anti-trans culture war nonsense... I'm fully moving out of this awful corner of the country soon, I will NOT miss it.
The right have killed significantly more than communists. We just don't label it as murder when it's capitalists, because making "lower beings" suffer is the intended effect of capitalism. Why is it not capitalism's fault when conservative states fail catastrophically and cause the deaths of millions, but when a communist state fails it's suddenly socialism's problem?
Conservatives refuse to acknowledge that capitalism is built on mountains of bones, hubdreds of millions of bones at least, and is still completely dysfunctional. Their criticism of better ideologies is just projection of that.
This guy wants to abolish the US Department of Education and all federal education organizations, defund/privatize healthcare, and leave Ukraine to fall to Russia. No thanks.
Arabs & muslims not having full rights and being 2nd class citizens is progressive and diversity? What are you on? Even fascist Erdoğan's Turkey is more progressive than that!
Israel makes most of its own weapons (the Merkava can be made completely with domestic parts, unlike other countries' MBTs which rely on some foreign parts). Their policy is basically "we shouldn't completely rely on other countries because they might abandon us" (wonder why anyone would do that, hmm). That being said, I'm pretty sure they don't actually manufacture their own ammunition so I don't know if they produce their own bombs...
Aren't you a "free market capitalist" conservative libertarian that argues on socialist/leftist communities? Are you seriously surprised that you go on a predominantly leftist/left-leaning site and see leftist opinions being upvoted more and right-wing conspiracy nutjob comments being downvoted more?
Its like the greed is getting in the way of their ability to be more greedy in the future.
late-stage capitalism in a nutshell
We've been at the point where the people at the top (who are there only from nepotism/luck) are heavily rewarded for screwing over the thing they're a part of (and everyone in it) in the long term. And our government fuels the cycle by spending trillions in subsidies and bailouts and stuff for companies after executives & stockholders make them implode.
The people who control for-profit organizations generally don't have much of an incentive to do what's best for the company. Just to do what's best for them and jump ship when things start to go south.
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I'll let you in on a little secret in the field of AI as someone who's job is AI (computational linguistics); AI is, and has always been, mostly just a fancy word for algorithms, a bunch of if-else/switch/match statements. It doesn't have to be complex...
That being said, you're underestimating how much engineering would go into a program that calculates the groceries you need to buy and where/when. Especially so if it's supposed to be automated, e.g. you're not just putting in how much bread you have currently every time you use bread.