Trans women in sports

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[Key]

This is a complex and sensitive topic, often sparking strong opinions from various sides of the debate. The discussion about transgender individuals in sports and in gender-specific spaces like prisons is deeply tied to questions of fairness, safety, and inclusion.

Some argue that biological differences between men and women, particularly in terms of strength and endurance, give an unfair advantage in certain sports. Others emphasize the importance of inclusivity and the rights of transgender people to participate in activities aligned with their gender identity, including sports. This often leads to differing views on how to balance those two factors—fairness in competition and inclusivity for transgender individuals.

It's clear that this issue is evolving, with new policies and discussions shaping the landscape of both sports and societal norms.

Imagine saying so much and absolutely nothing at the same time

[Saulaac]

I've used ChatGPT like half-a-dozen times (not sure that needs hyphens but Lisna will correct me in due course) and one thing I've noticed is that AI is very impersonal. It will never say what it itself thinks. It never uses the first person singular.

I personally like using the first person singular on regular occasions, especially when I wish to give my subjective opinion. But I do rein it in, otherwise most of my posts would be "me me me". So a balance has to be struck.

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Chatbots don't use personal pronouns because they're not people. They just harvest the opinions and views of others, do web searches for keywords and strings, and spit it all back at you. There's absolutely nothing personal about a chatbot. And on a totally unrelated subject, does anyone know where one goes to meet these chatbots? Just, you know, in the interests of research of course...

[Lucem Ferre]

AI is ass. It gets info from the web, so academic literature is never considered unless it has an article citing it & even then it gets things that it should know wrong.

[Guybrush]

This is interesting, though.

@velocity can you tell me how to make Spaghetti alla carbonara?

[SGR]

AI is ass. It gets info from the web, so academic literature is never considered unless it has an article citing it & even then it gets things that it should know wrong.

AI researchers call that 'hallucination'. But imo, it should more accurately be called bullshit - because AI doesn't have the ability to perceive - and like human bullshitters, it just isn't inherently concerned with the truth. There was an interesting article in the NYT recently about AI hallucinations, and how they're getting worse. The amount of data AI is dealing with, and the complexity of the tooling has gotten us to a point where AI is giving us bullshit answers, and even our best and brightest minds that are actively working with it don't quite understand why. That's a scary thought.

Some people today are using AI as an oracular epistemological tool - it's like digital tea leaves for some people. All it's missing now is a bit of the pageantry. Suspend your disbelief, then light your incense, don your best robe, dim the lights, and ask AI for the divine knowledge of whether or not you should break up with your girlfriend. Eureka!

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If her name is Eureka, than I'd say yes, break up now. 
The other worrying thing about AI is that, as the US revisionary spiders plod across the web, removing all words Trump doesn't like and rearranging history so that Hitler is seen as a misunderstood genius possibly, the information AI will be harvesting will be just that: what's available. The truth is what it can see, and if the proper text is either blocked or deleted, then all it will be able to return is what Project 2025 wants it to.

Requested Nov 2, 2029: Chatbot, tell me about the election of 2020.
Chatbot: In 2020 the American election was stolen from Donald Trump by Joe Biden.

and so on.

What was it Smith said: "Freedom is the power to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows."

And O'Brien: "But what if the Party says two plus two equals five?"

Yeah.