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Palestine is recognised as a state by huge portions of the world. While, yes, it wasn't a state in the history of the region, the Palestinian people lived in the region under British and formerly Ottoman rule. Israeli settlers haven't taken land from the state of Palestine, but they have taken it from the people who have lived in Palestine since the 7th century.

I'm 99% sure that isn't what the OOP means, though. They mean you don't live with your parents (or maybe without any housemates).

You're a vampire, you realise that your eternal existence is about to come to an end, finally. The ash and fire will today grant you your well deserved rest. You wish only to die sated of your endless thirst - you dash into the nearest house. A man huddles in a room. He's afraid, for once it is not of you. In an instant, it is done, and his lifeblood fills your mouth in one last ecstatic moment as the ash pours through the windows and the stinging heat begins to claim your skin.

But it is not enough. The curse of immortality is strong, and the ash, while choking, is not hot enough to truly burn your body. You live on, changed, hardened into a block of stone, buried. And you wait. A year turns to a decade, a century. You pray to lose your mind, but the curse is stronger even than madness. Your torment seems endless as the centuries turn then to millennia.

And then... The ash above you is cleared. Hope, at last! Surely the people of this new age will see your final crime, bad understand! Surely, they will know your cursed form needs to be destroyed once and for all!

You can barely make them out, as they prowl around your stony shell.

"Hey man, you think they were gay or just bros?"

Your torment continues.

Yes, we absolutely are different. Okay, maybe if you really boil down every little process our brains do there are similarities, we do also do pattern recognition, yes. But that isn't all we do, or all ML systems do, either. I think you're selling yourself short if you think you're just recognising patterns!

The simplest difference between us and ML systems was pointed out by another commenter - they are trained on a dataset and then they remain static. We constantly re-evaluate old information, take in new information, and formulate new thoughts and change our minds.

We are able to perceive in ways that computers just can't - they can't understand what a smell is because they cannot smell, they can't understand what it is to see in the way that we do because when they process images it is exactly the same to a computer as processing any other series of numbers. They do not have abstract concepts to relate recognised patterns to. Generative AI is unable to be truly creative in the way that we can, because it doesn't have an imagination, it is replicating based on its inputs. Although, again, people on the internet love to say "that's what artists do", I think it's pretty obvious that we wouldn't have art in the way we do today if that was true... We would still be painting on the walls of caves.

Learnéd Machines

Machine Learning is such a better name. It describes what is happening - a machine is learning to do some specific thing. In this case to take text and output pictures... It's limited by what it learned from. It learned from arrays of numbers representing colours of pixels, and from strings of text. It doesn't know what that text means, it just knows how to translate it into arrays of numbers... There is no intelligence, only limited learning.

In general making classification more sensitive will increase your false positive rate, and making it less sensitive will increase your false negative rate. Neither is preferable! The question is whether you consider the cost of a false positive or negative to be higher... I think most would argue that a false negative is far worse if that allows a child/children to be harmed. Consequently, if you are erring on the side of convicting more people, you should also err on the side of "not maiming those people" because the chances are some of them are innocent.

Don't think I've ever seen someone go bald from the side before

Outside of what is genuinely illegal I think it is better that speech considered to be objectionable by the community remains visible so that our collective attitude towards those things are also visible. What I mean is I would rather see bigots hounded and debated than just banned... I don't think defaulting to the ban hammer is the way outside of specific safe spaces.

Part of what's so funny about RPGs is being able to anticipate things that your character can't, and so they do stupid things for stupid reasons

I think the previous commenters point was that to get to something at the bottom of a pile of clothes, even if you know where it is, you have to move everything from on top of it, like a stack.

Yeah... If someone takes out a complex part of your production, is that going to just end your game because you can't practically divide your attention effectively? I can imagine a couple of ways around this, but it's a challenge. I suppose that's another layer of strategy in the whole game... But I also think unless it's very streamlined it's going to put a lot of people off.