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1yr ago
Biology defines males and females as having small (sperm) and large (egg) sex cells.
True hermaphroditism is extremely rare and non functional:
Spermatogenesis has only been observed in solitary testes and not in the testicular portions of ovotestes
The chromosomes XY, XX etc generally kick off development to phenotypically adult human sexes but there are rare disorders which most people are familiar with now.
The chromosomal pairs for sexes are different in different species, eg in birds males are the sex with 2 identical sex chroms.
But birds and mammals both fit the large/small sex cell binary
Jewish civ bonuses:
Chosen people - ancient era bonus for developing monotheism and great prophets
Money lender - middle ages trade bonus, discount on banks
Lie back and think of Israel - modern era fertility bonus
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1yr ago
For Ada to be the first programmer, Charles Babbage must have designed the first programmable computer without ever coming up with any test programs for it.
He decided what instructions you'd need, and that you'd need multiple ones, then never thought about combining 2 or more together to do anything, ever.
Then lucky for him, a programmer appears!
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1yr ago
Just before he said yes, Cowen was trying to get him to back down due to St Petersberg paradox:
COWEN: Should a Benthamite be risk-neutral with regard to social welfare?
BANKMAN-FRIED: Yes, that I feel very strongly about.
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1yr ago
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Over the long term, if you care about your lineage, sterilization and death in you or your descendants have the same outcome - the bones no longer appear
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1yr ago
Of course it can. Thedesire for sexual novelty (reduced if children are produced, ie sense of responsibility) would benefit someone who is fertile who married someone infertile.
Somewhat jokingly, PMS is anger directed at a man who didn't impregnate her this month. Maybe that is evolutionarily beneficial
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1yr ago
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1yr ago
Criminality is heritable, so sex segregating prisoners is a pro eugenic policy. Please don't remove it and add to the foster care system now, and a worse society in the future
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1yr ago
Sounds like a meat puppet from the 80s scifi book Neuromancer
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1yr ago
If I ran the Liberal party, I would try and split the referendum into 2 questions. One that offers "constitutional respect" and one for the voice. Then people could vote yes:no and not be seen as not caring/being racist
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1yr ago
Didn't say it did, I was just pointing out that it was implemented somewhere, and is popular
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11mo ago
They are both used in the real world to evaluate legal ability (or potential) so such a drastic gain in ability between versions is worth knowing. I think it's almost certain he'd see improvement in his task using the latest version
RNA != DNA
Still happens (and can cause cancer or mutations in future generations) but in DNA the rates are something like a handful per few billion.
Then they have to make it through repair and error detecting mechanisms.
Not as good as computers (you can move gigabyte files across the internet no problem) but far more accurate than almost anything graspable by humans
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1yr ago
You designed your cpu for a class, long after people had come up with the idea of a programmable computer, and determining what instructions are needed.
Every instruction that needs to be put in hardware adds complexity, so knowing that some operation can be achieved by another one is very valuable. Babbage's machine had memory, if statements and loops - quite an achievement to know these are needed to write algorithms without writing any.
Making a device programmable, rather than hardcoded is an amazing mental leap and also a massive jump in complexity. One that I believe you would only make if you had at least 2 programs you wanted to run
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1yr ago
Yeah I deleted that maybe a minute after posting, because I didn't want to explain thee edge cases
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1yr ago
Exactly. If there are adults running the show they'll have planned where to put the explosives, have aircraft standing by and know the schools key TSMC employees kids will go to.
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1yr ago
Yes 100% woukd be a wealth transfer. I think the current system has gone the other way, young people have to work many more years to transfer wealth to the old.
So.. we should aim to even it out a bit. Let's haggle on the percent and timelines
There's no difference between sterilization and death in the fossil record
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