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And I applaud that. I hope they don't drown in the noise that the less thoughtful people are making.

> Her response has been to double down

The tweet you linked is a reply to a tweet that's a great example of what's wrong with the response overall.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1279761588438867975

While I don't want to comment on the validity of the comparison, the fact that antidepressants are overprescribed is well documented. She calls doctors unnecessarily prescribing antidepressants lazy.

Saying it calls people who take mental health medication lazy is a gross misrepresentation. Whether it was a deliberate or out of laziness, it poisons the conversation.

> One must be willing to learn in order to be taught. She is not a person that can be reasoned with.

I think that conclusion was drawn way too fast.

Yes, I disagreed with most of it. But I also think that the response is disproportionate.

who isn’t speaking in good faith

I have absolutely no reason to assume this is true. She could be transphobic or just misinformed, but nothing in her past suggest that she's a hateful bigot.

The evidence of that is that she talked about being a sexual assault survivor in her anti-trans manifesto

If this trauma caused her to become transphobic, is this really the best reaction?

I was not aware that you need an invitation to express your opinion on Twitter.

She literally, out of nowhere, started blasting out her opinions about a group of people that have nothing to do with her.

This whole outrage started when she made a comment about the use of the phrase "people who menstruate". She belongs to that group.

... for her underlying fear that some trans person is going to invade her restroom and assault her

There is absolutely no evidence to support this claim.

However, if it would be China, Russia or any other authoritarian regime demanding that Google would censor their international engine, I think the sentiment would be quite different.

It seems that their concerns are always dismissed based on the current state of the art, which is short sighted to say the least.

A) We're striving to make strong AI.

B) It seems plausible that as computing and AI research continues, we'll get to strong AI eventually given that brains are "just" extremely complex computers.

C) We do not know what strong AI will be able to do or how it will act, if it exceeds human intelligence.

The concern is not with the current state of the art, but what could happen in the future if we continue improving AI without seriously considering some safeguards against making a system that at some point becomes clever enough to start making itself even smarter.

I won't claim I'm an AI expert, but I think people like Musk and Hawkins deserve (based on their accomplishments) to be taken serious when they express concerns. I very much doubt that everyone in this thread dismissing their comments as irrational fear mongering have enough knowledge on the topic to do so.

This isn't entirely correct. The interchange is the part of the transaction fee that goes to the issuer. The card network gets a scheme fee, and the acquirer/processor charge a fee on top of that. If a merchant pays the same rate, regardless of what type of card is used, (credit/debit, consumer/business) then the processor or acquiring is basically rounding up.

I especially like this part:

Eat the same few meals. This is in part due to decision fatigue, but it’s also a powerful dieting tool. For example, Tim Ferris’s Slow Carb Diet suggests eating the same few meals to boost adherence.

Yes, it's also very unhealthy to have a one-sided diet. That's why you're losing weight, your missing our on the nutrients a balanced diet offers.

In most circumstances it's a lot cheaper to accept the credit card or do the direct debits directly (via a payment service provider). If you're operating internationally, find a PSP that offers many local payment options. For example, in many European countries, very few people have a credit card. If you offer your customers local payment options like Giropay and Sofort you won't need to bother with PayPal in my opinion.

If you're reading 'De Correspondent' you will see a lot of examples of this: the headlines are not necessary clickbait in the same way as BuzzFeed is, but they still over-promise and are often slightly misleading. Especially the ones they share via social media.

I think Internet 'journalism' is at an all time low.

I'm going to be more careful to click on things

So you are adapting to this state of horribleness by determining for every link if it's clickbait or not. I wish that wouldn't be necessary.