See, that kind of comments don't contribute anything to the conversation.
All you're doing is portraying yourself as a victim and hijacking the issue back into the bullshit "are we too pc" debate again, which quite frankly most people are already sick of.
Can people rename this to something that makes sense? Seeing a post on the front page saying "A brief update" is so vague. An update by whom? About what? There's literally not enough information to gauge whether or not I should pursue this further without clicking on it.
That is one region of the world that I do not know much about. Would you have any links about the history that led to the current state of the affairs that you've described?
Thank you for your insights, this has been useful! (I was actually hoping to ask this to a linguist for some time now, so I was happy when I saw your message!)
You surmised my current situation well, I've been focusing a lot on the 5 categories and little on the locutions. I shall remedy that :)
One thing in your answer that I'm a bit fuzzy on is what you meant by the confusing thing in the brackets (act/force and [or vs] intent)?
"Homelessness isn't a problem, you just need some seeds. Ergo if the homeless are starving they must be too lazy or maybe they spend all their money on drugs so they can't even afford a few seeds!"
Try being homeless, then go back and tell us how "easy" it is.
(Speaking as someone who has been homeless before).
> I'm Dutch, and bluntly calling out flaws in each other's work is not considered all that rude over here; it's almost the opposite: not calling someone out on their flaws implies we either consider them a lost cause or not worth the hassle of educating.
Woah, I do that too! Maybe I should move to Netherlands.
> We may never reach the stage of Strong AI because it turns out that what we actually do is not intelligent enough to require Strong AI.
That's interesting. If we find a rigorous enough definition of "Strong Intelligence", would humans necessarily qualify as one?
People in AI try to replicate the "power of the human brain" when there are billions of "human brains" that are surviving at a subsistence level or working in mind-numbing menial tasks.
I can't understand the cognitive dissonance that makes a person marvel at how "amazing the brain is" while simultaneously ignore the suffering of billions of those brains.
All you're doing is portraying yourself as a victim and hijacking the issue back into the bullshit "are we too pc" debate again, which quite frankly most people are already sick of.