StringJunky

Cheers.

They might be 'real' in the sense that they measure the same or different when compared to each other. As far as understand if it's measurable it's real. Co-ordinate choice may be arbitrary, but the results between them aren't...or are they?

If you ignore the 1-2%, chromosome-defined sex works, but that's not representative of reality in the actual phenotypes that are out there. Shall we just arbitrarily ignore the 1-2% and say they don't count because they twist too many knickers? Let's be honest. The more I think about this and understand paths of evolution, the less tenable binary states become. Hundreds of pregnant male seahorses were released this week to boost their numbers. I don't think nature gives a monkey's. The states that proliferate genetically in any given environment are the ones that hang around. There is clearly room in the human genome for these types of variations in human expression. Why must gender expression be irrevocably fixed to chromosomes, when, clearly, there is all manner of variations in nature? Are humans exempt from the forces that create these variations?

My question was not well posed on reflection.

It means they aren't causally connected, as far as light goes. What happens between the object and observer is not knowable from either end.

By that I meant the expansion rate exceeds the speed of light, beyond a certain distance. Light carries information and can't catch up as the distance increase between an object and an observer outpaces the photons, effectively 'disappearing' from the observers view. The distance is about 250mlyrs and beyond.

The elephant in the room imo is Andrew Wakefield of MMR 'fame' that precipitated the antivaccination mess.

Is the universe still contiguous with all of itself even though information is disappearing at any given point in it, given sufficient distance, between intergalactic objects via the cosmic expansion?

Type 1 is not the result of a life style issue, is it?

That will probably be a wide discussion, going forward, on dealing with similar cases in the future. Probably, the main problem is that the person is high impact and institutionally powerful, and that's why it took that long to discover. A bit like the emerging corruption in amongst some of the Supreme Court judges.... nobody is looking over their shoulder. Reverence of such lofty individuals needs to be expelled and for them to be seen in more realistic terms by acknowledging that everyone is fallible to deception and corruption.

Found something similar to what I read before:

Peer review is seen to be working. It seems a bit naive to think that ones deception won't be noticed in the long term.

Should have put 'LLMs' not 'LLCs'. Large Language Models.

There's also the problem of avoiding the appearance of victimizing said cohort when trying to address this publicly.. I see a few comments in Quora of people disgusted that such 'personal' topics were being openly discussed. I was looking into the proportions of overweight police officers and why things were this way, the culture, lack of routine health oversight, work conditions etc. US police unions are an obstacle as well, apparently, to any major reforms.

Owning AI LLCs looks like a model that won't prevail. Meta had its system leaked and that appears to be the one that's going to dominate in the near term as knowledgeable users expand its capabilities. Opensource seems to be the future and Google, MS et al will have to find new ways to monetize it in that environment. The Google engineer who wrote the article says no company can hope to outcompete a decentralized setup that is free to use by anyone. You know alot more about this stuff than I do, but I suppose it will be somewhat an Android-type ecosystem. Meta may well be the gatekeeper, seeing as early adopters are running away from the closed, private, paid for systems to make it the de facto public system. The article is lost for the moment, so no link yet.

Anecdotally, friends who have been over there say there is a lot of very overweight people your side. The UK isn't great either these days, but Americans top the overweight podium, it seems.

'All classifications are arbitrary' is an immutable fact. Humans decide what is what. Classifying is what we do to turn the continuum of natural phenomena into discrete concepts that we can share with other humans. All of our concepts and associations are constructed. You have been here long enough to know that facts evolve over time in scientific research. This subject is no different.

Aye, it's the successful that write the history books.

If they are deceased, there isn't much other options. I just see it as a new-fangled form of TV or film (movies) that increases the sensory experience of someone being present.

ABBA's ABBAtars may foretell differently.

One is based on folklore, geared to relieving symptoms, and the other one on science.

"Ladeez and gentlemen... please welcome SimOne!"

OK.

We are 'old'. We have spent our lives adapting to change and a lot us don't want to do that any more... it's a problem for the young uns. A new, naive mind will just adapt to the circumstances it finds by default, with no awareness of history to refute it, like we often do. There appears to be a periodic, collective amnesia with each successive generation.