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Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by rootusrootus on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:09PM (#46505723)
> if we assume 50/50 by chance

IIRC that is not a safe assumption. 50/50 is a population-wide statistic, but it's pretty common for individuals to have a substantially skewed probability for one gender of offspring or the other.

Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by dekhn on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:58PM (#46507429)
Are you saying that children's sex is heritable? I don't think there is any strong evidence for that (just weak evidence of tiny effects). Or are you just saying that for any 50/50 distribution, there will be some outliers that seem surprising, but are explained by simple statistics?
Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by rootusrootus on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:24PM (#46515369)
There are genetic and biological predispositions at the individual level that make some couples more likely to have one or the other gender children. So it is not at all surprising and there are many examples of parents having all boys or all girls, it does not mean they are selectively aborting to achieve a goal.
Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by dekhn on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:51PM (#46517659)
The predispositions you describe are on the order of 1% which would not explain parents having (say) 5 all boys.
Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by stevenwoo on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:20PM (#46506598)
Your only point is to defend Elon Musk and never addressed the key point instead which is IVF can be used in the USA for eugenics as the other poster suggested abortions hypothetically would be in their horror scenario. Not every clinic but it's available and is not explicitly outlawed - it's only ethically and professionally dubious for certain scenarios. It's also much more practical that trying to use abortions for the same usage in terms of the mother's health.
Re:X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced by rootusrootus on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:22PM (#46515317)
> Your only point is to defend Elon Musk

Huh?

I'm just an interested party because my family has nearly all girls for an entire generation, so I have paid attention to research that shows how this happens.

You seem to think it disagrees with a conspiracy theory. I don't care about that, I was just adding a bit of accuracy to the discussion. Carry on.